Africa Quotes by Wole Soyinka

10 Africa quotes by Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka’s thoughts on Africa can be dense, but this ten‑quote collection pares them down to their core. It’s a useful entry point for anyone curious about his literary perspective on the continent.

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Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

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In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.

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The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in…

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Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses…

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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a…

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Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma…

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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…

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I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to…

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Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for…

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We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria…

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

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The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

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One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as…

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One has to confront history honestly.

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We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War…

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I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

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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…

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I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it…

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