All posts tagged "Wole Soyinka"
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Literature
Top 10 Nigerian Authors In 2020
23rd December 2020In a year that greatly affected the mentality of so many through the coronavirus pandemic and...
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Social Media
Social Media Roundup
28th June 2019Wole Soyinka’s Plane Seat Incident One of the highlights of the week was a tweet by...
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EDUCATION
FG Orders Return Of History As Standalone Subject In Nigerian Schools
27th June 2019Events from the past shape the future, and the study of history, which entails learning about...
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Politics
Herdsmen Invasion: A Regional Effort to Tackle Insecurity
10th June 2019Barely a month since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Professor Wole Soyinka agreed on the subject of...
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Politics
Throwback Thursday: The Biafra Declaration (1967)
30th May 2019“Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the...
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Personality
Do You Know That Wole Soyinka is the First and Only Nigerian to Win a Nobel Award?
11th May 2019Amongst awards, there are ‘Awards’. The Nobel Prize is technically the ‘crème de la crème’ of...
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Literature
World Poetry Day: Five Nigerian Poets
21st March 201921st March is World Poetry Day. Its purpose, according to the 1999 UNESCO declaration, is to...
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Politics
Nigeria Decides 2019: Kingsley Moghalu of the Young Progressive Party (YPP)
15th February 2019The excellent presentation of the YPP’s candidate, Kingsley Moghalu at the Presidential Debate, increased his popularity....
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Entertainment
EbonyLife TV Set to Film ”Death and the King’s Horseman” by Wole Soyinka
19th June 2018Filmmaker, media entrepreneur and EbonyLife TV boss, Mo Abudu, has announced that EbonyLife TV has acquired...
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documentary
Onyeka Nwelue Celebrates Soyinka In New Documentary Film, ‘Wole Soyinka: A God And The Biafrans’
19th April 2018Award-winning Nigerian writer and filmmaker, Onyeka Nwelue is developing a documentary on Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole...
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Books
20 Inspiring Quotes From Writers About Writing
28th October 2016Much has been said about the power and pleasure of reading, and not nearly enough about...
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Discover Nigeria
This Day in History: Poet, Christopher Okigbo was born in Ojoto, 1932
16th August 2016Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, one of the major founding fathers that shaped the...
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Events
82 Students to Engage in Writing Contest on Wole Soyinka’s 82nd Birthday
8th July 2016For two days in the month of July, Abeokuta’s June 12 cultural centre will be playing...
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Events
Events This Weekend: 25 – 27 September
25th September 2015Enjoying the long weekend already? The fun and learning doesn’t have to stop. Attend one or...
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International
Today in History: National Day of Creativity
14th September 2015The Federal Government declared the 14th of September every year as the National Day of Creativity...