African literary statesman, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday, in Stockholm, Sweden, earned prolonged applause when he dedicated his keynote address at the ‘Nobel Teachers Summit’ to the memory of the late former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dr Kofi Annan. The year’s Nobel Teachers Summit in Stockholm is themed around the inculcation of human rights in […]
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The management of the University of Ibadan on Tuesday renamed its Arts Theatre after Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. The university also named the Practical Theatre as Geoffrey Axworthy studio. Axworthy was the founding Director of the School of Drama of the university in 1962. Soyinka was also the founding head when the school was […]
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The federal government last night rolled out the programme for the conferment of national honours on the late Chief Moshood Abiola, winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, his running mate Ambassador Baba Gana Kinbige and the late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi. The event is scheduled for Tuesday in Abuja less […]
Read More Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says being a traveling teacher has become “a way of life” as he takes up a post as visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg. The 83-year-old Nigerian playwright and author told students and journalists at the South African university on Friday that the benefit of encountering different cultures during his […]
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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka wants President Muhammadu Buhari to declare his health status immediately in order to put a stop to speculations and the attendant political manipulations. “Why is the President hiding his state of health? He’s supposed to understand he’s public property. Me I’m still private property, that’s why I’m not in Aso Rock,” […]
Read More Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, 74, to reveal the condition of his health after he spending nearly two months in Britain on medical leave. Soyinka, who spoke in an interview with AFP at Paris Book Fair weekend, also said indigenous people had a right to assert themselves as […]
Read More Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election. ‘I will destroy my American green card, if Trump wins’ Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US […]
Read More The Nigeria Nobel literature laureate, Wole Soyinka has told students that if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States next week, he will leave the country, UK Guardian report. “If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come […]
Read More Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on Sunday, dismissed reports that the group nominated Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka to head its dialogue team with the Federal Government. Reports recently had it that the group which had claimed responsibility for several attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta region, picked Soyinka to head its […]
Read More Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, said on Thursday that he had been contacted by some militant groups in the Niger Delta to be their representative in the dialogue with the Federal Government, appealing to President Muhammudu Buhari to “respond positively” to their demands. Soyinka, who did not clarify his role, lashed out at the Nigerian media, […]
Read More President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Soyinka, who was accompanied by Yemi Ogunbiyi, spent about one hour at the State House.He declined to speak in details on the purpose of his visit to the President. He dismissed the newsmen that laid […]
Read More Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari for his reaction to increasing attacks and killings by herdsmen in several states in the country. Soyinka in an address to the National Conference on Culture and Tourism on Wednesday said he was shocked by the President’s claim that the attacks would soon be over, Punchng […]
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