Wole Soyinka/Quotes
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature,[2] the first African to be honoured in that category.
Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria's
political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain.
In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and
broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional
Elections. In 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.[3]
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