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Wole Soyinka

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Name: Wole Soyinka

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Soyinka and the cold war history

By NDUKA UZUAKPUNDUIt was late morning. The notorious, dense and usually agonisingly slow vehicular traffic on the Old Marina, in Lagos, has melted away. The human traffic was light. The heat from the sun, far from unkind, was alluringly mild. Somewhere ... [Published Daily Sun - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Wole Soyinka, Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, Soviet Union, Cold War

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 3 reports

20th Anniversary: Nigerians Remember June 12, Abiola

•Late Chief MKO AbiolaNigerians from all walks of life Wednesday marked the 20th anniversary of the freest and fairest presidential election ever conducted in Nigeria on June 12, 1993 and won by Chief Moshood Abiola.Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, ... [Published PM News Nigeria - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Wole Soyinka, Elections, Democracy, Annulment

First reported Jun 01 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 1 reports

Soyinka Advocates Monument For Slain SSS, Policemen

PROFESSOR Wole Soyinka has expressed his deep empathy with the pioneer Director of the State Security Service, General Abdulahi Mohammed, over the latter’s regrets that casualties among security agents are treated with general indifference.Soyinka describes ... [Published The Guardian Nigeria - Jun 01 2013]

Entities: Wole Soyinka, Security, Harassment, Indictment, Human Rights

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Amosun, Aregbesola, Soyinka Visit Igbale Aiye, Origin of Humanity

Governor Ibikunle AmosunOgun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, his counterpart from Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, in company of Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Thursday visited Igbale Aiye, a village believed to be the origin of mankind.Igbale ... [Published This Day Online - May 31 2013]

Entities: Wole Soyinka, Benin, Nobel Laureate

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

England is 'cesspit' breeding Islamists, warned Soyinka

ENGLAND is a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims, the Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka has said in an interview in which he also accused Britain of allowing the existence of "indoctrination schools".His extraordinary ... [Published Nigerian Compass - May 25 2013]

Entities: Wole Soyinka, England, Nation of Islam, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Jonathan, Mahama, Ekwueme, Anyaoku, Govs, Others Bid Achebe Farewell

Awka The burial in Ogidi, Anambra State yesterday of the literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, was literally turned to a political gathering given the caliber of political figures and political insignias that coloured the five- star burial.Achebe's ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 24 2013]

Entities: Chinua Achebe, Alex Ekwueme, Emeka Anyaoku

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Literature and the Nigerian-ness of Achebe/Soyinka

Some critics love Soyinka’s prose, and it has nothing to do with Achebe.Though better admired for his playwriting, many followers of the Nobel Laureate find his prose rather overbearing, even haughty. Yet, it is this particular part of its nature that ... [Published Vanguard - May 24 2013]

Entities: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Diet, Vegetables, Fruit

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

He was a rare Nigerian, says Kalu

Former Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu yesterday described the late Prof. Chinua Achebe as a rare Nigerian.Kalu, in a statement, said: “Achebe has left us with a parting message, that he was indeed a rare Nigerian, an Igbo whose best friends were Yoruba ... [Published The Nation Nigeria - May 24 2013]

Entities: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Yoruba, Mamman Jiya Vatsa

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Wole Soyinka: Child Of The Forest Goes To Japan

Accomplished South African-based Nigerian filmmaker Akin Omotoso’s special documentary film Wole Soyinka: Child of the Forest is one of the selected films showing at the 2013 Cinema Africa Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan.This year’s Cinema Africa event, ... [Published PM News Nigeria - May 22 2013]

Entities: Wole Soyinka, Japan, Tokyo, Ousmane Sembène

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Group Warns Soyinka, Falana, Sagay Not to Meddle in Rivers Politics

Court adjourns hearing in suit over LG leadership tussleA political pressure group, Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI), has called on Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; human rights lawyer and activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) and Prof. Itse Sagay ... [Published This Day Online - May 21 2013]

Entities: Wole Soyinka, Rivers State, Port Harcourt, Leadership

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Chinua Achebe: Funeral rites of late Nigerian writer begin

The funeral rites of the late renowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, began Sunday with prayers at the Ecumenical Centre in the capital city of Abuja. The remains of the writer, whose most popular book is 'Things Fall Apart', were expected to arrive ... [Published Afrique En Ligne - May 20 2013]

Entities: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Association of Nigerian Authors, Nadine Gordimer, Nsukka (Nigeria)

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Soyinka slams those who diminish Chinua Achebe

Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, in an interview with Sahara Reporters, speaks on his relationship with compatriot, Chinua Achebe and slams those, he describes as ‘an incorrigible sect’, promoting lies that his Nobel prize poisoned the relationship. ... [Published PM News Nigeria - May 19 2013]

Entities: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Alfred Nobel, Nobel Prize

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PERSPECTIVES: June 12, 20 Years After [Published This Day Online - Jun 16 2013]
Soyinka and the cold war history [Published Daily Sun - Jun 15 2013]
Annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election d... [Published Afrique En Ligne - Jun 15 2013]
Victor Gbeho appointed President of Millennium ... [Published Ghana Business News - Jun 15 2013]
‘Here, I’ve Learnt to Relax and Worry Less Abou... [Published This Day Online - Jun 15 2013]
Forty Years Of Solitude [Published This Day Online - Jun 15 2013]
June 12: Hope and The ‘Dividends’ of Democracy [Published Nigeria Village Square - Jun 14 2013]
Achebe, national honours and Nobel prize [Published Daily Sun - Jun 14 2013]
Ignored lessons of a struggle [Published Pambazuka News - Jun 13 2013]
Truth and justice go beyond all [Published Dhaka Courier - Jun 13 2013]
AFRICA AND HER UNCELEBRATED HEROES 1 Anna Esi H... [Published Modern Ghana - Jun 12 2013]
20th Anniversary: Nigerians Remember June 12, A... [Published PM News Nigeria - Jun 12 2013]
June 12 and the march to democracy [Published Daily Sun - Jun 12 2013]
June 12 alive, say NADECO, Soyinka, others [Published The Nation Nigeria - Jun 12 2013]
The Martyrs, the Heroes [Published This Day Online - Jun 12 2013]
Should Students Have a Choice in Law School Pos... [Published This Day Online - Jun 11 2013]
University of London - First English University... [Published PRWeb - Jun 10 2013]
Jonathan’s undoing is his bad advisers and trib... [Published The Nation Nigeria - Jun 08 2013]
Nigeria Turns to UNESCO on Education Reform to ... [Published EducationNews.org - Jun 07 2013]
CNN’s Inside Africa Explores Nigeria’s Cultural... [Published PM News Nigeria - Jun 07 2013]
When the Luddites were confounded [Published The Nation Nigeria - Jun 06 2013]
Nigeria: Okediran Reads to Secondary School Stu... [Published AllAfrica.com - Jun 03 2013]
Prophets Of Pan-Africanism [Published The Guardian Nigeria - Jun 02 2013]
The allure of Afe Babalola varsity [Published The Nation Nigeria - Jun 01 2013]
what a shame [Published Vanguard - Jun 01 2013]
Soyinka Advocates Monument For Slain SSS, Polic... [Published The Guardian Nigeria - Jun 01 2013]
Your “Deaf And Dumb” Story And Editorial [Published PM News Nigeria - May 31 2013]
Amosun, Aregbesola, Soyinka Visit Igbale Aiye, ... [Published This Day Online - May 31 2013]
Ojeifo: Dana crash: Why memory matters [Published The Guardian Nigeria - May 31 2013]
Fayemi for Eighth Ransome-Kuti Lecture [Published The Nation Nigeria - May 31 2013]

Blogs

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truth is harder than fiction [Published 3quarksdaily - May 24 2013] In recent years, African literature has broken free of what Wole Soyinka called the “orange ghetto” of the Heinemann African Writers Series, which in 1962 launched the series with the one African book that everyone seems to know: Chinua Achebe’s Things ...
Writer Wole Soyinka intends to be in Cleveland ... [Published Real-Time News: Latest Northeast Ohio News - cl ... - Apr 22 2013] Soyinka could not make the award ceremony last year ...
Weekend Special, N°1001 [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Apr 21 2013] 1. A fat lady will sing. The New York Times has now had two African marriages in its “Vows” section in a matter of weeks. The first is of a Nigerian weddin g (ceremonies in Abuja and Virginia). It’s the union a very well connected lawyer and a investment ...
Banned Occupy Nigeria Documentary Goes Viral [Published Global Voices in English - Apr 18 2013] A Nigerian documentary about the government's removal of a fuel subsidy last year, which sparked the country's Occupy Nigeria protest , has gone viral on the Nigerian blogosphere after authorities banned the film. The 30-minute documentary “Fuelling ...
Nigeria's Chinua Achebe Remembered as ‘Trailbla... [Published Global Voices Online - Mar 26 2013] Nigerian author Albert Chínụ̀álụmọ̀gụ̀ Àchèbé, better known as Chinua Achebe whose internationally praised writing gave Africans a voice by destroying the mold cast by colonialism, died on March 22, 2013 . He was 82. Achebe's seminal novel, “ Things ...