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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Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else.
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An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.
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I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'
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I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.
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The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.
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I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
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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.
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Obasanjo has acted sufficiently against the constitution to warrant his impeachment. There is more than enough evidence to warrant his impeachment.
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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.
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I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
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Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.