"An aerial bombardment with weapons of the mind"
Noble prize winning author #Wole_Soyinka has called for “an aerial bombardment with weapons of the mind” against #Boko_Haram. Our Nigeria correspondent Will Ross asked Professor Soyinka what he meant by that.
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Walking With #Wole_Soyinka
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Several times, I have met Professor Wole Soyinka without actually meeting him. It was either in a crowded reading room in Washington D.C. or at some event in Nigeria. As a photographer not as a writer, I really wanted to meet the man away from the usual crowd that surrounds him all the time. I […]
There are apparently only three people in the world that can cook pasta like #Wole_Soyinka
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Soyinka turned 80 this year. We learn this in an interview a Nigerian newspaper did with his wife, Folake: “He cooks and he is quite good at it. He even cooked about two days ago. When the boys were really little, one day in California, he called us all to the kitchen and said he wanted […]
#JOURNALISM #MEDIA #Food
Nobel Laureate #Wole_Soyinka gives his opinions about social #MEDIA
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‘… Let me take this opportunity to announce yet again that I do not tweet, blog or whatever goes on in this increasingly promiscuous medium. I do not run a Facebook, even though I am aware that one or two serious-minded individuals/groups have instituted some such forum on their own, for the purpose of disseminating […]
African Writers and the 2013 #Nobel_Prize in #Literature
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As the Nobel Committee for Literature announces their chosen awardee tomorrow (1pm Swedish time), the past several weeks has been littered by quite a few notable predictions, arguments, and dream-lists. Even sports betting company Ladbrokes weighed in. Ladbrokes, btw, has #Assia_Djebar from Algeria at 12/1 odds, Ngugi wa Thiong’o at 20/1 and Nuruddin Farrah at […]
#BOOKS #J_M_Coetzee #Nadine_Gordimer #Ngugi_wa_Thiong'o #Nuruddin_Farah #Wole_Soyinka #Yvonne_Vera
Controversy surrounding the National Theatre in #Lagos
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The #National_Arts_Theatre is visible from the motorway system which connects Lagos Island and the mainland: an iconic modern structure which rises, it is often noted, like the peak of a military cap from the surrounding parkland. On the first day of the four-day Eid public holiday there are no arts to be seen: […]
#POLITICS #THEATER #Artistes_Village #Chief_Edem_Duke #FESTAC #Nigeria #Olusegun_Obasanjo #Wole_Soyinka