Wole Soyinka: Celebrating the grand old man at 86

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'Professor Wole Soyinka remains one of the many reasons the Nigerian nation is largely celebrated in other climes, this is despite the series of negativities our country continues to emit despite the huge abundance of human resources bequeathed to us'

I have never met Professor Wole Soyinka, I was this close to meeting him in my student days in the University of Benin, I grinned much with envy that fateful day when the likes of Alfred Ajagbe showed me their pictures with Kongi, I think he had come for a function and made a brief stop over close to the university, I cursed my luck that day.

Such fixation is yet to end and still I do not see it ending even when he bids us farewell in his trans-earthly voyage. Florence Stratton in a journal article titled “ Wole Soyinka: A Writer’s Social Vision” published by the African American Review described Soyinka as one who has foremostly rejected literary ideology and yet has caused disquietude with what she dubs as his social vision or his political orientation.

 

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