Insecurity, Breakdown Of Infrastructure Prevent Nigeria From Hosting Prestigious International Festivals – Niyi OsundareMultiple award-winning poet and distinguished Emeritus Professor, Niyi Osundare, has said that Nigeria cannot host international literary festivals which would have boosted its national prestige because the country is plagued with insecurity and collapse of infrastructure.
Speaking on the possibility of hosting such a major global literary event in Nigeria Osundare, said that the political space would first be friendly, adding that electricity must be stable and security of life and property must be guaranteed in the country. “Who can bring any of those poets to Nigeria today in the name of holding an international festival, with the dreadful possibility of their being waylaid and abducted for crippling ransoms, by bandits and kidnappers who now constitute an alternative government in Nigeria?
“The Ghanaian government had already laid out a beautiful, functional structure in a well-appointed part of Accra that suited PAWA’s purpose efficiently. In that period of Nigeria’s history, we were ruled by military dictators who put writers in detention, and whose members would later hang Ken Saro Wiwa, a former President of the Association of Nigerian Authors.
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