Wole Soyinka
11 Jul 2023
The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has appealed to indigenes of llorin Emirate to stop communication in ongoing controversies generated by a letter written by Prof. Wole Soyinka on Isese festival.
9 Jul 2023
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) is cohosting Professor Wole Soyinka to an afternoon of readings, conversations and signings around his latest published collection of verses.
17 Jun 2023
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has again expressed concern over the negative use of technology and social media in recent times.
14 Jun 2023
Wole Soyinka’s latest Interventions volume, The Putin Files, will be formally unveiled on Friday, June 16, both on-site at Freedom Park, Lagos, and virtually, via Zoom: ID: 819 6827 6619 | Passcode: Kongi. The event is scheduled for 2pm. Organised by the publishers of the series, Bookcraft Africa, the event will feature readings from the…
9 May 2023
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said the word, ‘reconciliation’, was never used during visit of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to his Abeokuta home on Sunday.
8 May 2023
The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate during the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi has disclosed his reason for paying a visit to Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka. "Today, I visited one of Nigeria’s most revered figures and an international literary icon, Prof Wole Soyinka," Obi tweeted. The former Anambra State governor described Soyinka as a…
30 Apr 2023
Unarguably, Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has through his works and person subverted our inclination to moral self-satisfaction and social complacency. He has stirred our unquestioning acceptance of given modes of thoughts; and disheveled our chosen pattern of a particular or externally-shaped existence.
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