I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it was an environment which involved both the traditional religions as well as the Muslim religion, so we were exposed to all the various facets of faith, micro cultures which existed within those beliefs, and even though… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
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
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of… — 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
