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
people
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
armed despise might people power threat wake
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.
people important horizon
Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.
people feels humans
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
evil people looks
Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
people visionaries anticipate
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
people feelings done
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
people everyday wake-up
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
hands ethnicity people
Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.
months period placed solitary stayed ten year
I was placed in solitary confinement for a year and ten months out of the period in which I stayed in prison, which was just over two years.
acted against constitution evidence
Obasanjo has acted sufficiently against the constitution to warrant his impeachment. There is more than enough evidence to warrant his impeachment.
impossible moments pursuing question whether wondered
It's been difficult, and without a question I've had moments when I just wondered whether we're not really pursuing an impossible ideal.
The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.
peace whenever
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.