Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
[It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
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