Photo credit: Oklahoma Ag I can remember someone on a campaign for the 2nd Republic ruling party in Nigeria then saying about a rival who was a vegetarian that, in the confines of his home, he ate meat more than a wolf. The man later became our hope for 1993, but eventually, the president that…

Photo credit: Blackpast I have known the Nobel Laureate, Prof Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, who we fondly call Uncle Wole, Kongi, Prof and WS, for almost as long as I have known myself. He and my dad, Bola Ige were very close friends. They must have met at University College Ibadan, UCI- now University of Ibadan….

Photo credit: Thisdaylive Not many people might know he was approached to be President to assuage what they saw as the injustice done to the south west due to the regretful annulment of June 12. But he was honest enough to know he couldn’t serve as a good party man. While he and others were…

Photo credit: the Punch When the late Prof Ola Rotimi wrote a play titled, ‘Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again’, some of us might have thought he was being too harsh on our military rulers. The Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, once advised that people about to contest political posts in Nigeria should first be…

Photo credit: Channels TV WoleSoyinka #CountdownTo90 Naija Book ClubTosin Adeoti about an hour ago asked on another post what I still consider a pertinent question even though it can be somewhat pesky : “How readable is Soyinka’s book?”Amede Isaac, a Soyinka’s Disciple like my humble self understandably took umbrage and more or less ‘lashed out’…

Photo credit: Premium Times ‘The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny.’ – Prof ‘Wole Soyinka The quote by the Prof can not be overemphasized in a country like Nigeria. The tragedy is that they are refusing to be silent these days. Indeed, some of them are muttering arrant nonsense…

Photo credit: Oslo Freedom Forum Professor Soyinka was awarded the 1986 Nobel prize for literature when he was 52yrs old. His literary works continue to be studied in schools and institutions of higher learning across the world. Like many Nobel Laureates, the photo shows Prof. Soyinka autographing a chair for the #NobelPrizeMuseum during his visit…