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How The ‘Pagan’ Wole Soyinka Saved A Born-Again Pastor Chuzzy Udenwa

Nothing divides Nigerians like religion, but I have it on good account that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who prefers Orisha to Christianity and Islam...

Kongilatulations!

A Triple Dobale To Wole Soyinka @90 1.Enigmata. You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yetAligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed in straight draughtsYet stooped...

My Teacher Kongi Strikes 90

When I broke the world exclusive news of Nobel Laureate publishing his latest novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,...

The Night I Met A Beautiful Angel

Let me today remember an Angel I once met in this life. Let’s simply call her Sola. Angel Sola Kuti. She’s Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s daughter. My devotion to Fela...

Dear Teacher & Pagan

Dear Teacher & Pagan (To Wole Soyinka) Dear teacher and pagan, With prim fronds I thee wed. Is there palmwine in Paradise? The homy spirit unbinds, And the grotto of Ogun Bears...

Soyinka Strikes 88 in Fine Fettle

Today is the great man’s 88th birthday. Given all the battles he fought over the years, hardly any prophet could have prophesied that Professor Oluwole...

Re-Reading the Sacred Suicide of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman

Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka is an acknowledged classic of world theatre. It has been staged across the continents to wide...

87 Spells Immortality In The Wole Soyinka Canon

He was so daring early in life that nobody gave him any chance to live up to 87 years on this earth. But here...

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