For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
WOLE SOYINKAThere’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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