I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply… — 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
