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Daily Archives: May 10, 2015

Essays / The Pontifical Papers

SOME MORE ADO ON WOLE SOYINKA’S “MORONS” | by Ayo Sogunro

Posted on May 10, 2015 by ayosogunro • 6 Comments

“I have just read a statement attributed to me on a news outlet, evidently one of the Internet infestations. My lecture at the Hutchins Centre, Harvard University, was video recorded. Anyone who believes what I am alleged to have said must be a moron – repeat, a moron. — Wole Soyinka My close acquaintance—and one … Continue reading →

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Writer. Scholar. Activist. Teacher. Lawyer. Still doing what I enjoy doing: using law for social change to protect the most vulnerable and marginalised in society.
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THE PARADOXICAL LIFESTYLE OF THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN IS THE SUM OF THIS BOOK... My relentless pursuit of an understanding of the survival abilities of the average Nigerian in a system that is definitely dysfunctional. Some of us complain, some of us protest, some of us go spiritual and still many others go material, and also a few of us turn to the arts for solace—we write, not to cure other people of madness, but to avoid going mad ourselves…

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Death in the Dawn, a short play adapted from Wole Soyinka's poem of the same name, is a tragicomic exploration of Nigerian social values through the passionate interaction of some unlikely debaters.

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