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
art communication social
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
justice liberty abiding
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
doe tigers
A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces
firsts alive theater
Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
aggravation novelists be-considerate
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
i-can methodical one-thing
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
struggle reading humanity
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
justice humanity prime
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
children reading school
Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy...We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.
mountain cracks aids
We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.
military years administration
After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.
tranquility
I am a glutton for tranquility.
men perfection claims
If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
running world sane
Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind