We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology… — 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
