Tag: wole soyinka

Subsea Retreat Extended There is something that makes you jazz into my island, O my Cap’n Another visit to Davy Jones Locker, you are welcome...

Celebrating Cap’n Blood’s Birthday with Him Yesterday, as I was making octopus pepper soup, I had a sip of seaweed kinkana, a mild alcoholic spirit....

Did Wole Soyinka Blame the Nigerian Youth? Recently, Wole Soyinka, wrote a speech or article titled “Where Did We Go Wrong?” It mentions a list...

Sowore: On Pyrates Confraternity Comment: Over the past six years I have written several articles about the wrongs and decadence of University Campus Grown Fraternities...

Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning The man, Wole Soyinka is forgiving and commuting personally designed punitive sanctions once again. And in the most “magnanimous”...

Oshiomhole: Swiss Account Socialism When the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari announced an increase in fuel price, it was steep. From N87 to N145 litre...

Pepper Rest: O Boy, I just love intelligent men. The kind intelligence I don start to regard the most na the one when a man go...

Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0 The bickering between Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and ex-President Gen Olusegun Obasanjo (Rtd) continues. Sometimes simmering, sometimes crackling, it will never...

Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness 3 In a most unspectacular reinvention “moment”, Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has publicly declared not only his “forgiveness” but the...

Wole Soyinka and Traditional Forgiveness? After innumerable citizens indigenous to Lagos and the South-West region in Nigeria roundly criticised traditional ruler Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba...

Wole Soyinka and Democratic Forgiveness? In a very revealing and dramatic recent Guardian interview conducted by correspondent David Smith http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/29/wole-soyinka-interview-nigeria-corruption-goodluck-jonathan. Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka lamented the process of...

Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness? 2 I must confess I have been keenly waiting for the next Wole Soyinka “moment.” Well, no matter how long...

Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness? Wole Soyinka is not only a genius but also indeed an enigma even to the most discerning of minds. What...

The Lion and The Jewel: Soyinka’s Most Enduring Work? Today is the 80th birthday of Wole Soyinka. I may not be a fan of his...