Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to… — 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
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think the epicentre of terrorism whether you call it cesspit or whatever you want to call it, shift, if you asked… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be… — 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
My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I… — 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
Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go… — 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
