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…

Photo credit: Literary Hub, Two options are open to those whose rights are violated during elections , either through voters suppression or through outright rigging, as we witnessed on February 25 and March 18, especially in Rivers and Lagos states.It is either you respond in kind, through protests, which may be physical, as taking to…

Photo credit: Daily Trust Professor Wole Soyinka’s Abeokuta country home combines simplicity with love for nature, creating a therapeutic effect on the owner and guests From a distance, the house, built of a combination of burnt clay brick, red Nigerite roofing sheets and concrete pillars, lies prostrate like a lion. Under the smiting equatorial sunlight,…

Photo credit: Britannica He is already an elderly man.Is he?He is eighty three years old! If we really look at his activities, he must have lived up to ten lifetimes. Is it the mysterious gunman story we should talk about?Is it his intervention in the Biafran crisis which earned him solitary detention for almost two…