Wole Soyinka on Nigeria (III)

The interview with Wole Soyinka was conducted by MO* journalist Stefaan Anrys as part of the BOZAR 'Meet The Writer' series.
BOZAR, Wednesday 21 September 2016
www.mo.be
Photos © Brecht Goris

[@pacificndondo7793]

Morgan Freeman, Koffi Annan, Mandela, Soyinka, and Achebe Look the same, I love their sexy voices.

[@ederesosaeder3663]

Man of the people

[@wilfred5656]

Love you sir

[@ralphrichardralphrichard4235]

Sincerely speaking

[@hombohandjilajulienmariebe3737]

Happy to hear that

[@josephsiboko3980]

sheppopotomus this is a new word for me

[@Tosinschoolofwisdom]

Sowore must win o

[@gabrielajayisnr2373]

Great Leaders are born & not made ahead of the missions to accomplish- "The Voice of reasoning is by the wisdom"- Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo-" You can. Only teach me how to catch the fish & not how to eat it" 2]- No Nation in the World can survive 2 Religion conflicts" 3] Nigeria must re-diversify economically- Such Great Leaders voice of reasoning by the Wisdom- is now assigned to deliver Nigeria from the British claws- checklist in all postmortem of activities which marks the British/Monarchs end in Africa/Nigeria.-It was an opportunity that must never be missed.-G.O.Ajayi Snr.14/2/2020.

[@richardalakuko9055]

I'm from the future; Prof's view about supporting Buhari here isn't a good one. Buhari is doing similar thing and even worse

[@nwabuezeuchechukwu318]

So much for a selfless Buhari huh? Oh look how far we've come with our angel of redemption! 2019 and we've suffered every thing his predecessors stood for. Party discipline? 🤣🤣🤣 Our last election was a disaster... does "had I known?" Ring a bell? I'm sure it's deafening by now...mtcheeew!

[@emperordavid2044]

This is exact description of buhari.

[@divinest]

SOWORE 2019 for President

[@efemzyekun900]

He is now a traitor, under DSS gulag. The scallywag took his passion too far. I wont weep for him.

[@BEE-do7bk]

@@efemzyekun900 Ode Oloriburuku

[@efemzyekun900]

@@BEE-do7bk iyalaya baba e, ti siere. Ogunlakaiye oshimole, loma gun e pa. Alaraka

[@BEE-do7bk]

@@efemzyekun900 Mo mö pe o şe Yoruba gidigidi. Awön oloşi igbo ni wa ję. Ko ni da fun iwö ati gbogbo ębi rę. Wa a jiya ti o ma tu sörö nipa Sowore. O ni aye könkön. Oloşi alakori.

[@efemzyekun900]

@@BEE-do7bk emi #Omoluabi gidigidi, tokan tokan, lo un ba e fedefo. Omo Alare, to gbo fe, to mo asa. Mi o si ninu awon alakori bi tie, ton fi eke ati iranu gbeleaiye. Iwa ti Sowore wu, kii se iwa #Omoluabi, sugbon iwa omo alaigboran, jagidijagbon, omo garagi. Awon oloriburuku, alaisanfani eda bi tie, lon kilaiya, lati ma so isokuso ati ede ki ede, to le mu akoba wo ile yooba. Sango loma ran ara gbignona si gbogbo yin, ti en ki oloriburuku yen laiya. Aja lodema je oku e tomotomo, fun omo yibo to fi mi wan ye. Eledua oni fi irankiran juwe me. Apa.

[@sundayshegbone3782]

🤔

[@donsmage5303]

Soyinka how market now with ur Buhari ?

[@ei8829]

To Prof Wole Soyinka, as a well traveled man & a revolutionist, you should have learnt at a point in time that the Devil can manifest in different forms, probably sometimes as an Angel, cause he was once one. Truly, It's said that the Devil you know is better than the Angel you're yet to know, that's taking it too soft. The Devil you know is better than the Devil you're yet to meet. Nigeria is in a mess and you know better now, yet the words you say, you can't retract. Let this sink in, we leave the discussion for another day.

[@tayoojo5643]

eDoz Izueke-Okolo what of Chinua Achebe ? Don’t forget , you are Igbo and Achebe is Igbo too. Now let’s hear your view !

[@yatogbegene6368]

He made me proud being a Yoruba.

[@mishacknthane1060]

Proud of being an African not Yoruba

[@yatogbegene6368]

@@mishacknthane1060 hey f $# k off! Am Yoruba not Africa dummy.

[@yatogbegene6368]

@@mishacknthane1060 by the way tell Nnamdi kanu to be proud of being ibo not biafra. Children of Hate!

[@adrianude5189]

He should make you proud to be a human being, not a tribalist. ..what type of mindsets do you people have ?..shocking.

[@adrianude5189]

@@mishacknthane1060 don't waste your time with illiterates. .such mindsets says it all, I am tired and sick of idiots and tribalism.

[@Chuubiyo]

Lol

[@tundeade9060]

Sheppopotemus. That is a new one. It was a choice we had to make. Keeping Jonathan was no choice at all. He wasn't in charge and our common wealth became the dish of a few who could afford private jets by doing nothing. Nigeria needed intervention and we had no one else. Buhari might not have been the choice if we have another but it was the decision we had to make.

[@johnnyegha6665]

Tunde Ade 🙄

[@jamesozoed5503]

Why did you think in a country with all the educated and qualified presidential candidates, there was no available person other than Buhari, if not that some region of the south which rejected the confab of 2014 but formed APC with Buhari retains the ugly political structure that makes a Buhari be the only choice?

[@stani101]

Prof lost it with supporting Buhari but like he said he had to choose between 2 bad types. Sadly, he played himself.

[@9jatv384]

I am the most insulted president in the world but by the time I leave office Nigerians will remember me for the freedom they enjoyed under my government"GEJ(2014)

[@tayoojo5643]

The president who ran the most corrupt government in Nigeria too

[@solowiztharapwhiz7052]

Can the prof revisit this and take back is words? Nobody know the future... Which Government is better now, is the economy better now? Is the first lady the ideal, the jokes are on the prof right now, even the wise talk and reason foolishly sometime

[@kelechukwuanozyk7605]

Wole Soyinka is not saying the whole Truth. He hated President Jonathan, but Jonathan was not very bad and not a disaster

[@paulcalebayibaemiotokolo]

😂😂😂😂 you have seen what buhari is doing na...let us all enjoy the suffering. You played yourself, sir.

[@ADE-of-LAGOS]

Did you comprehend his explanation? Sounds logical enough but as he also said ... you change remove the military from former military man. I suppose Jonathan was a better choice for you?

[@dasnames4660]

dont like the questions put to Wole Soyinka...seems pretty aggressive and dismissive