Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinkais a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth13 July 1934
CityAbeokuta, Nigeria
CountryNigeria
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If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.
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The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.
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I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.
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We are moving towards a total mockery of constitutionalism. The president has crossed the line of political toleration.
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an opportunity for Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military, and an opportunity for the international community.
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What I looked forward to so much was the day I would hug Abiola, but that never happened. Let us not talk about that now. Let us concentrate on the inspiration that Abiola and his family have been to us.
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Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.
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As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.
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The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.
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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
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There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.