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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.
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African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.
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It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.
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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
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There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.
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Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.
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There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way, I grew up with a keen sense of a division, the reality of a division of perception in people's lives between those who govern and those who govern.
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it I looked forward to it as a mission.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.
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