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Ooni, Soyinka move to unite Yoruba with Brazil through samba museum

At the mention of samba, what would ordinarily come to mind is Brazilian music, with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. But little is known about the wider samba culture. A press…

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In Stockholm, Soyinka draws ovation over Annan

African Literary statesman, Professor Wole Soyinka, Thursday 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…

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Leave Obasanjo alone, Yoruba group tells Soyinka (Nation)

The Yoruba Consultative Forum (YCF) has condemned what it called campaign of undisguised calumny by the Nobel Laurette, Professor Wole Soyinka against former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. In a release issued in Lagos Tuesday and signed by its President,…

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Soyinka calls for International assistance to check Herdsmen Menace (ThisDay)

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has urged the federal government to seek international assistance to curb the menace of killings being carried out by Fulani herdsmen nationwide. He stated this yesterday during a courtesy call on Benue State Governor, Samuel…

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Mayday! Mayday!! Mayday!!!

Mayday, uttered three times, is the distress call “used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners”. Long before its adoption for that function however, and more traditionally, there did exist Labour (or Workers’) Day, dedicated to the…