As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering. — 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 Image
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 Image
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
