A lively and vigorous conversationalist, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka is always the interviewer’s delight.
Some of these works include ‘AKE: Years of childhood’, ‘Ibadan: The penkelemesi years’, his prison memoirs, ‘The man died’ and his autobiographical tome ‘You Must set forth at Dawn’. In novels, poems, drama, essays, music, film etc, Soyinka has ceaselessly confronted the challenges and travails of post-colonial Nigeria and sought to enable the actualization of the country’s largely trapped potentials.
One of Soyinka’s memorable phrases that struck me in the Agetua interview was when he described literature as ‘a hand-grenade which you detonate under a stagnant way of perceiving reality’. And that is exactly what Soyinka in ‘The Man Died’ and other literary offerings strives to do. The conversation with Okey Ndibe in ‘The Man Lives’ is wide-ranging and thought provoking.
The 140-page book is divided into three subsections. First is an introduction by Okey Ndibe, which is a wide ranging discourse on Soyinka’s literary works as well as his political thought and praxis. The actual conversation with Soyinka takes place partly in Soyinka’s house in Abeokuta and partly in a car on a trip to Makurdi, Benue State, to attend a literary event and constitutes the second section.
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