All posts tagged "Wole Soyinka"

Social Media

Social Media Roundup

Wole Soyinka’s Plane Seat Incident One of the highlights of the week was a tweet by...

EDUCATION

FG Orders Return Of History As Standalone Subject In Nigerian Schools

Events from the past shape the future, and the study of history, which entails learning about...

Politics

Herdsmen Invasion: A Regional Effort to Tackle Insecurity

Barely a month since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Professor Wole Soyinka agreed on the subject of...

Politics

Throwback Thursday: The Biafra Declaration (1967)

“Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the...

Personality

Do You Know That Wole Soyinka is the First and Only Nigerian to Win a Nobel Award?

Amongst awards, there are ‘Awards’. The Nobel Prize is technically the ‘crème de la crème’ of...

Literature

World Poetry Day: Five Nigerian Poets

21st March is World Poetry Day. Its purpose, according to the 1999 UNESCO declaration, is to...

Politics

Nigeria Decides 2019: Kingsley Moghalu of the Young Progressive Party (YPP)

The excellent presentation of the YPP’s candidate, Kingsley Moghalu at the Presidential Debate, increased his popularity....

Entertainment

EbonyLife TV Set to Film ”Death and the King’s Horseman” by Wole Soyinka

Filmmaker, media entrepreneur and EbonyLife TV boss, Mo Abudu, has announced that EbonyLife TV has acquired...

documentary

Onyeka Nwelue Celebrates Soyinka In New Documentary Film, ‘Wole Soyinka: A God And The Biafrans’

Award-winning Nigerian writer and filmmaker, Onyeka Nwelue is developing a documentary on Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole...

Books

20 Inspiring Quotes From Writers About Writing

Much has been said about the power and pleasure of reading, and not nearly enough about...

Discover Nigeria

This Day in History: Poet, Christopher Okigbo was born in Ojoto, 1932

Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, one of the major founding fathers that shaped the...

Events

82 Students to Engage in Writing Contest on Wole Soyinka’s 82nd Birthday

For two days in the month of July, Abeokuta’s June 12 cultural centre will be playing...