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In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.

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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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