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EbonyLife Have Acquired The Rights to Adapt a Great Wole Soyinka Play to a Movie

June 12, 2018 by Tomi

In an announcement on Instagram on Sunday, EbonyLife CEO, Mo Abudu revealed that the media house’s film department had acquired the rights to develop a feature film centred around Wole

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Wole Soyinka condemns Nigeria Police for attempting to stop protest

February 6, 2017 by Culture Custodian

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has slammed the Nigeria Police Force, for seeking to stop the planned protest against government at all levels, by musician, 2Baba. The Lagos Police Command

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Soyinka vows to rip green card up if Trump wins

November 3, 2016 by Oluwamayowa Idowu

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka announced in a seminar to students at the University of Oxford that should Donald Trump emerge the President of the United States of America next

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Video: Wole Soyinka interview on ChannelsTV

April 11, 2015 by Tomi

Africa’s first Nobel Prize winner, Wole Soyinka was interviewed by Channels Television today as Nigeria Decides. Professor Soyinka spoke on issues he would tackle first if he was President Buhari.

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Wole Soyinka speaks on Nigeria’s presidential front-runners.

February 16, 2015 by Tomi

Nobel Prize winning author, Wole Soyinka spoke to Will Ross of BBC on the political situation of Nigeria. Soyinka admits that President Goodluck failed in tackling Boko Haram but that

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“Nigeria under a cloud of shame”- Wole Soyinka

November 18, 2014 by Tomi

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has compared the current insurgency in Nigeria to living under a cloud of shame, embarrassment and feeling of dereliction. Soyinka said insurgency was growing in the country

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NYANYA BLAST: SOYINKA CRITICISES JONATHAN OVER KANO RALLY

April 24, 2014 by Culture Custodian

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for embarking on a political rally barely 48 hours after the Nyanya bomb blast and the abduction of school girls in