Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said there were certain principles, histories, rights, and responsibilities of artistic creativity that should not be smothered under emotional manipulation. While reacting to the controversy over a video by the artiste Davido, he also…
Soyinka unveils latest Interventions volume, “The Putin Files”
Professor Wole Soyinka’s latest Interventions volume, The Putin Files: Excursions Around the Ideology of Pain is ready for presentation to the general public. According to the publishers of the series, Bookcraft Africa, The Putin Files will be formally unveiled on…
There was nothing to reconcile between Peter Obi and I – Wole Soyinka
Playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has termed as inappropriate and diversionary media reports that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25, 2023 poll, Peter Obi’s visit to his Abeokuta, Ogun State residence on Sunday was for…
8 poets from 5 countries mark World Poetry Day with Wole Soyinka
As has become a tradition since 2019, Providus Bank will be staging its 3rdProvidusBank Poetry Café on Tuesday, March 21 at the Grand Ballroom Eko Hotel & Suites Victoria Island, Lagos. Titled World Poetry Day with Wole Soyinka, the event…
Global conquest of Nigerian literature
I can never get tired of celebrating Nigerian literature, arguably Nigeria’s greatest gift to the world. The politics of Nigeria is a disaster that makes the whole wide world laugh at the so-called “Giant of Africa”. Aside from creative literature,…
The evolving poetics of the Jagaban of Borgu — Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Aspects of Nigeria have been compared to a dancing mask. No less so, its political leadership and followership. Like one overzealous pundit aptly put it, the story of our nation’s power play is always in an unravelling mode. In fact,…
Soyinka’s “Childe Internationale” to set tone for 2022 Muson Festival
The much anticipated 2022 MUSON Festival kicks off in grand style on Friday, October 21 with the cast and crew of the Festival Drama– Childe Internationale, set to mesmerise the audience with impressive displays on stage and to set the…
In Search of Unity: 62 years after — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
No Nigerian leader thus far has been able to breast the unity tape. Forget all the fine words and promises and boasts, most Nigerian leaders have been victims of false starts, like overzealous athletes. It takes a holistic understanding of…
19 Gbosas for the Grandmaster of Data – Toni Kan
They said telephones were for the rich and we believed them. That was probably why when the GSM era dawned, SIM cards were sold for more than the minimum wage and so priced far above the reach of the ordinary…
Hope is what we need, not muckraking — Ehi Braimah
Two high profile disavowals directly linked to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC), occurred recently: one by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and the other by Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana. When members of…
