Apologise And Make Restitution For Your Grave Insult To Osun Priestess Threatened By Your Subjects To Stop Isese Festival In Ilorin, Soyinka Tells Emir Of IlorinSoyinka also urged the monarch to make “restitution whichever way you can for this grievous insult to our race”.
The Muslim monarch had defended an Islamic group that threatened and warned Omolara to cancel a planned festival in the city because it was considered to be idolatry. On Sunday, Mallam Abdulazeez Arowona, the spokesman for the Emir of Ilorin, said that the monarch and the palace were in support of the Islamic group.
“Both religions have been sanctimoniously deployed as justification for unspeakable atrocities, for the dehumanization of the black race. Do I need to teach you your own history, or is it that you prefer to forget?
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