Vol 66 No 12 | 
            - KENYA
- TRIBUTE
	     Alongside Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka  he was part of a literary movement that flourished in the 1950s and 1960s as colonialism waned...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)  trade unions  the opposition and activists  including Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka – one of Tinubu's allies – condemned the move...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The poet activist Wole Soyinka declared Nigeria was at war with itself and suggested the government should seek international help...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	     Meeting via video-link for this year's Obafemi Awolowo lecture  leaders from across the country – Anyaoku  Sultan of Sokoto Sa'ad Abubakar  Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka  and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi  the former governor of the central bank – spelt out the growing risks faced in the country and need for hard-headed political reforms...
	 
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	     Days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo – who has found fault with all of his successors – described Nigeria as 'fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state' under President Buhari and an economic basket case  Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka uncharacteristically agreed with his kinsman...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Public pressure for clarification of Buhari's position  voiced by writer Wole Soyinka  civic activists and sundry politicians  is set to grow over the next few weeks...
	 
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	     Two of Mohammed's siblings broke surface in March after Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka pointedly refused the government's offer of its Centenary Award  which named 100 distinguished Nigerians – including Gen...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The latest round of shooting and bombing by the Islamist Boko Haram militia in the north (AC Vol 53 No 1  A year of living dangerously) prompted criticism from intellectuals and nobel laureate Wole Soyinka commented that Nigeria has reached a ‘dismal watershed’ when militias shoot the faithful in their places of worship...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Wole Soyinka sees this year as a turning point: ‘The mental orientation has been changing...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	        Jonathan needs constitutional backing for the transition  amid a growing clamour for civil disobedience and a rally led by Wole Soyinka in Abuja...