Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
[It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in… — 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
Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or,… — 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 like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.' — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. — 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 found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out,… — 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
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