Nothing divides Nigerians like religion, but I have it on good account that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who prefers Orisha to Christianity and Islam turned out the saving grace of…
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A Triple Dobale To Wole Soyinka @90 1.Enigmata. You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yetAligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed in straight draughtsYet stooped to housebreak Euripides…
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When I broke the world exclusive news of Nobel Laureate publishing his latest novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, one of my critics asked me:…
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Let me today remember an Angel I once met in this life. Let’s simply call her Sola. Angel Sola Kuti. She’s Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s daughter. My devotion to Fela as an…
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Dear Teacher & Pagan (To Wole Soyinka) Dear teacher and pagan, With prim fronds I thee wed. Is there palmwine in Paradise? The homy spirit unbinds, And the grotto of…
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Today is the great man’s 88th birthday. Given all the battles he fought over the years, hardly any prophet could have prophesied that Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka would live to…
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Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka is an acknowledged classic of world theatre. It has been staged across the continents to wide acclaim. The drama has in the…
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He was so daring early in life that nobody gave him any chance to live up to 87 years on this earth. But here we are: Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka,…
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In the halcyon days of his regime, President Olusegun Obasanjo touted Christianity and Pharisaical prayers. He had a sedulous apostle in then Anambra Governor, Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju, who took his…
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I am allergic to dictators, even if they somehow manage to dress up in democratic robes. Nigerians cannot ever forget in a hurry how some time ago all the five…
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Okot p’Bitek, the great Ugandan poet, author of Song of Lawino, always held court at the bar in the foyer of Oduduwa Hall, the big theatre of the then University…
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Whenever the full history of Nigerian literature is written, Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa (popularly known as D.O. Fagunwa), the Yoruba language novelist, would certainly occupy his rightful place as one of its pioneers.…
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It is cool by me to let out this news item as a World Exclusive: Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka will publish his long-awaited third novel this year. Let’s not forget…
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Nigeria is a sacrament to mediocrity, stumbling towards Armageddon; a metaphor of dysfunction, hovering dangerously over the precipice. Over and above being a testament to the messy afterlife of colonialism,…
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ENIGMATA (TO WOLE SOYINKA @ 70) You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yetAligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed in straight draughtsYet stooped to housebreak Euripides for us:…
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Even the elements are not left out: Lightning! Thunder! They all celebrate Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka, that is, Wole Soyinka for short. Wole Soyinka threw a party for my class…