He was referring to the five parties in 1998 which came together to adopt the then military dictator, Sani Abacha, as their sole candidate for president.
Mr Soyinka said this Tuesday in his keynote address to the African Humanities Programme’s Regional Assembly in Abuja. The three-day programme, which was the fourth in the series, ended on Thursday.“Even if history is a waste, there is one good reason not to ignore the waste because it may turn combustible when no one is looking. Don’t ask me what we are doing in this afflicted nation when things happen to us and history was abolished,” he said.
He said the government also lamented the abolition of history in the curriculum “but it seems the pronouncement is passing into history too.” At the event, a professor of theatre and film studies at the Nnamdi Azikwe University, Akwa, Tracie Utoh-Ezeajugh, said Africans cannot divorce their collective existence from ethnicity and religion “because it gives us identity.”
“Religion is a way of life, we cannot depart ourselves from there. I cannot pretend that I do not have a religion. Likewise, I cannot also pretend that I do not come from an ethnic group.
We still can't forget your role in 2015 general election in Nigeria
History such as this👇
You neglected history when you supported PMB in 2015 forgetting he was a military tyrant who encouraged religious intolerance n ethnic discrimination when he was head of state & led to the collapse of our economy then, you talk of history, you better correct this mistake of 2015
Educate them some more sir, history is a cursor
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