Top 10 Literary Works by Wole Soyinka
In celebration of Mr. Wole Soyinka’s 81st birthday on Monday, we have compiled a list of the prolific writer’s most memorable plays… 1. The Lion and the Jewel: Performed in 1959 at the Ibadan Arts Theatre, this was one of Soyinka’s first plays in Nigeria. It interestingly explores the conflict between modernity and tradition […]
Wole Soyinka is 81! Happy Birthday Sir
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is 81! He turned 81 yesterday, 13 June, 2015 and the Connect Nigeria team won’t let one more day go by without celebrating a great Nigerian Playwright, Author, Poet, Political activist as well as the only Nigerian and the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. An advocate […]
Nigeria’s Record Breakers
Nigeria is known for so many things, both positive and negative. Despite the country’s reputation in areas of corruption, oil bunkering, internet scams and poverty, Nigeria is undoubtedly also home to exceptionally brilliant minds and industrious people. As we are currently immersed in the fight against terrorism in the north, abduction of school children, mass […]
President Goodluck Jonathan Congratulates Prof. Wole Soyinka on His 80th Birthday
Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, has joined millions of Nigerians to celebrate literature icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka on his 80th birthday. In a statement signed by the President’s media adviser, Dr. Reuben Abati, yesterday night, “President Jonathan applauds his life-long dedication and indefatigable commitment to using his acclaimed genius and talents, not only in the service […]
WS80 International Cultural Exchange Program Presents Dialogue Through Spoken Word
The Wole Soyinka Project in partnership with Unchained Voices, www.digitalblackonline.com, Taruwa and Freedom Hall presents Dialogue Through Spoken Word. This event will be taking place on the 11th of July 2014 at the University of Lagos Main Auditorium, and on the 13th and 14th of July at the Cultural Centre in Abeokuta […]
Ropo Sekoni, Odia Ofeimun, Dan Izevbaye, Abiola Irele, to Speak at Wole Soyinka 80th Birthday Lecture
The best of Nigeria’s communication scholars including Professor of French, Abiola Irele, Professor Ropo Sekoni, Odia Ofeimun and Professor Dan Izevbaye, will on July 13 speak at the 6th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series. Also joining the scholars at this year’s event with the theme ‘Wole Soyinka and the Moral Burden of Literature’, are […]
Discover Nigeria: The Yoruba Origin of Brazilian Culture
By Abiola Alabi The Yoruba people of West Africa constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in Sub-Saharan Africa at almost 40 million people in total. They are predominantly settled in Nigeria, where they comprise 21% of the population and the Yoruba language, which is also spoken in Togo and Benin, is still spoken here. […]
Round Seven: Wole Soyinka Awards For Investigative Journalism Begins!
Professor Wole Soyinka’s Center for Investigative Journalism is set to award journalists for their work and reports that has been received by the Nigerian audience. The award is open to professional Nigerian journalist or team of journalists, full-time or freelancers, who have produced a news story published between 26 October 2011 and 3 October 2012 […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PROF WOLE SOYINKA
Prof Wole Soyinka, a man with many strips, an icon, a leader, an Author, a Nobel laureate, and a Father celebrates his birthday today July the 13th .We as a family and a firm, connectnigeria.com warmly wish you a splendid birthday. Happy Birthday to one of Nigeria’s greatest exports, distinguished for his immense contribution in the field of literature, an intellectual force and a man of integrity.
Wole Soyika Honoured at The Dedica Festival in Italy
Photographer and multiple award winner Akintunde Akinleye has opened an exhibition in honour of Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka in Pordenone, Italy. The photography exhibition commissioned by the THESIS—the organiser of the annual cultural festival tagged Dedica Festival was part of the activities lined up to honour the 1986 Nobel prize winner in literature—the first to have […]
Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka & Femi Kuti makes Forbes list of 40 Most Powerful African Celebrities
Determining the celebrities who exert the highest degree of influence in contemporary African pop culture involved sifting through the nominations for the individuals with the highest numbers of votes, and then measuring their media visibility (exposure in print, television, radio and online), number of web references on Google, TV/radio mentions and their general clout across the continent.