Any government that is tolerant only of yes-men and women, which accommodate only praise-singers and dancers to the official beat, has already commenced a downhill slide into the abyss COURTESY …
Wole Soyinka
- ESSAYS & SPEECHES
Remembrance, and the Reparatory Ethos, 2025
by Wole Soyinkaby Wole Soyinka 18 minutes readThe nature of reparatory justice that befits the magnitude of Slavery wrongs can only be symbolic, gestural. Yes, but also morally and therapeutically propulsive, one that goes to the core …
- OpinionFOR THE RECORD
The Hunger March as Universal Mandate
by Wole Soyinkaby Wole Soyinka 3 minutes readThe time is long overdue, surely, to abandon, permanently, the anachronistic resort to lethal means by the security agencies of governance. No nation is so under-developed, materially impoverished, or simply …
FOR millions in anguished parts of the world, certainly for us in vast swathes of the African continent, this is daybreak on a new democratic promise. The warning …
- FOR THE RECORD
“Book is affirmation of alternative understanding that may yet salvage humanity…
by Wole Soyinkaby Wole Soyinka 1 minutes readEven where the world persists in its impeccable strides towards a seeming destiny of self-destruct, the still, small voice of humanity refuses to be silenced, nor its zeal of mission …
…no one has ever claimed that Decentralisation will end Hunger in the land or terminate religious conflicts and other forms of national malaise, no. We simply insist that this is …
- FOR THE RECORD
A pivotal witness, and a custodial danger
by Wole Soyinkaby Wole Soyinka 2 minutes readI have called for an independent, non-partisan commission to probe at length and in-depth, in public sittings, this scandal of expanding dimensions that has crippled the energy needs of a …
- Opinion
In pursuit of justice, productivity, under the rule of law
by Wole Soyinkaby Wole Soyinka 6 minutes read…the EFCC should release all its prisoners or, in the alternative, equally arrest and detain ALL those involved in this mammoth SCAM that has deprived the “GIANT OF AFRICA” the …
- Conference & LectureFOR THE RECORD
Journalism must probe not only the State, but the Society itself
by Wole Soyinkaby Wole Soyinka 3 minutes readON NAIJA TIMES… I DIDN’T even know those who were behind it or anything of the sort, but I began to take a look at it, and I thought, …
I expect the purveyors of this sordid material to submit all evidence, however minuscule, to the nation’s investigative agencies – Directorates of Prosecutions, EFCC, ICPC, plus affected institutions and others …