An ingrate is but a robber in disguise. I am thrilled to celebrate, on the same platform today, two great Nigerians who have impacted greatly on our collective intellectual environment and whose birthdays providentially fall within a few days of each other. Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka turned 90 on July 13 while Emeritus Professor Olatunji Read More…
Jimi Solanke, a veteran actor, dramatist, folk singer, poet, and playwright, who enchanted audiences with his expressive face, baritone voice, and contagious smile, died on Monday at the age of 81. He was on his way to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital when he succumbed to a brief illness, according to his family. Solanke, Read More…
The man fondly called Zik of Africa deserves his day. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first president, deserves his birthday, November 16, to be slated as a national holiday. It is a deserving honour for the pivotal leader who led the charge for Nigeria’s independence on October 1, 1960. As a result of Read More…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State hailed Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, the renowned Nobel Laureate, as Nigeria’s pride as he turns 89 years old. Prof. Soyinka, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 and became the first sub-Saharan African to receive such an honour, marked his birthday on Thursday, July 13. In a Read More…
Our values as a people have broken down. There is no better place to witness the madness than social media where apparent cowards hide behind digital anonymity to cast aspersions on the integrity of their betters. It was sad seeing the kind of insults some misguided elements were flinging at Prof Wole Soyinka over his Read More…
In picture above: The author with Folake and Kongi (Wole Soyinka) Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka is an acknowledged classic of world theatre. It has been staged across the continents to wide acclaim. The drama has in the course of time garnered critical and popular plaudits from the literati and the general Read More…
