Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, in a letter on Thursday extolled the virtues of Nigerian humanist, Mubarak Bala, who has been in detention for 100 days.
In solidarity with Mubarak to mark his 100th day in detention, Soyinka in the letter went down memory lane on how as a child he lived in peaceful coexistence with other Nigerians regardless of religious or ethnic background. He also expressed surprise on how religionists still demand and seek control of individual conducts in this age and time.
He added, “I imagine you pacing your cell, just as I have done. Feeling with each passing day the added strain.
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