Tag: wole soyinka
The Iroko at Ninety-Two
A Birthday Tribute to Wole Soyinka There are men who inhabit time, and there are those who interrogate it. There are writers who merely chronicle...
Prof. Wole Soyinka clocks 92 Today:Struggle is His Life
By Tunde Abatan Since he came into national prominence in the 60s shortly after the country’s independence, Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka has remained...
Mad cows and madder narratives
Mad cows and madder narratives By Wole Soyinka The most distressful aspect of my recent interaction with cows and herders is that it has created a most unwanted...
At home with Wole Soyinka in Autonomous Rep of Ijegba
By Segun Odegbami It is Tuesday, the 24th of November 2020. The sign posts at the gates reflect the nature of the man who lives beyond them. We leave the entrance and...
Between ‘dividers-in-Chief and dividers-in-law
By Wole Soyinka I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice...
Water bill, plot to reintroduce RUGA -WS
……Bill designed to take land for herdsmen-Ortom …..Another attempt at installing dictatorship-NLC Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has warned that...
Old foes reconcile!
Old Foes , Wole Soyinka 86 and Yakubu Gowon 86 reconcile. Gowon jailed Soyinka 1967 – 69 for his pro-Biafra sympathies and actions. Life is like that! Forgiveness...
WS@86, Says why I enlisted in the military but fled
Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, a proud son of Nigeria, African statesman and global citizen, is 86 years old Monday. He explained why he enlisted in...
WS at 86, a scoop denied
By Godwin Onyeacholem It is almost 30 years since this incident. I have not had the opportunity of meeting Soyinka since then. But whenever I do have the chance to meet...
NBC’s new code strangulatory- Wole Soyinka
NBC Code Will Strangle Industry, Says Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has lent his voice to the criticism of the 6th National Broadcast Code...
