Wole Soyinka needs no introduction. He is one of the most popular authors of African literature and his words have become a standard of eloquence and a point of reference in literary circles.
Wole Soyinka, the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, is 81 today. Nationally known as a controversial literary activist, many consider Wole Soyinka to be quite eccentric and condemnatory in his remarks about those in government.
We found 5 quotes that say a whole lot about Wole Soyinka and why he is so ‘eccentric’:
- One’s own self worth is tied to the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general.
- What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community and on me as an individual that’s what the human family is all about.
- I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the thread of danger and to the force of people who might despise me.
- For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
- The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Here is a video of Wole Soyinka giving a lecture on Boko Haram at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, United States.
The way Wole Soyinka uses words… phenomenal.
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