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Wole Soyinka: Timeless Memories: Elastic Effects @#LABAF2019

 An illustrative Art, Video Installation and installation project on Professor Wole Soyinka at 85 will take place during this year’s edition of the Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF). The celebration project is based on the life of Wole Soyinka,…

Me and my Lagos
Nigerians are the baba of world literature – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

A lot of bad blokes out there write many bad things about Nigeria. I don’t like that at all. Nigeria is very cool by me. The politicians may go wrong. The business goons can cut corners. The youths have given…

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#Labaf2019 – Wole Soyinka: Timeless Memories: Elastic Effects Art Project (Celebrating Wole Soyinka @85)

How did Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka become Wole Soyinka and how did Wole Soyinka become WS the hoary haired mythical figure of today? The Wole Soyinka: Timeless Memories: Elastic Effects Art Project seeks to help understand and showcase from the…

Sunrise News
* Army’s claims on ‘error’ killing of policemen are untrue – police (Guardian) * Eid-el-Kabir: FAAN strengthens airport security (Punch)

Army’s claims on ‘error’ killing of policemen are untrue – police (Guardian) The Nigerian Police Force has said the claims by the Nigerian troop on the killing of three policemen and one civilian is an “obvious distortion of facts.” Police’s…

Opinion
Surely, not again!!! – Wole Soyinka

Deployment of alarmist expressions such as “treason”, “anarchist”, “public incitement” etc. by Security forces have become so predictable and banal that they have become meaningless. Beyond the word ‘revolution’, another much misused and misunderstood word, nothing that (Omoyele) Sowore has…

Opinion
Re: Misrepresentation of Statement by The Nation’s Reporter – Wole Soyinka

I denounce, in very strong terms, the report in THE NATION of July 15, 2019, regarding my exchange with school pupils who visited me in Abeokuta, on Sunday, July 14, as part of the organised events on my 85th Birthday.…

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‘Igho Goes to Farm’ is love letter to my childhood, culture journalist tells youngsters

Culture journalist and The Guardian’s head of politics, Mr. Anote Ajeluorou, told the 85 student guests of Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka and other dignitaries that his debut children’s fictional storybook, Igho Goes to Farm, is a love letter to…

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Journalist presents debut children’s book at Soyinka’s 85th birthday

Culture journalist and The Guardian’s head of politics, Mr. Anote Ajeluorou, will present his debut children’s storybook, Igho Goes to Farm, to the 85 student participants and dignitaries in Lagos and Abeokuta on July 12 and 14 as part of…

Round and about Nigeria
Buhari’s refusal to obey law emboldening anarchists —Soyinka (Punch)

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says there cannot be closure on the death of Chief MKO Abiola until some of the challenges and anomalies in the country have been addressed and eliminated. Soyinka, who  said this at a wreath-laying ceremony…

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Ruga can cause explosion, Soyinka warns FG (Punch)

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday warned the Federal Government that its handling of Ruga herdsmen settlements could spark an explosion in the country. Soyinka, at the inauguration of the United Nations Solutions 17 SDG programme in Lagos, said…

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