The renovation works cover different spaces, including the 4,000-seater main bowl, over 3,000-seater banquet hall, 2-nos. exhibition halls, 3-nos. cinemas, VIP spaces, actors’ changing rooms, industrial kitchen, over 300 new toilet cubicles, clinic, fire station, lobbies within the four National Theatre entrances and extensive roof repairs.
Filmmaker Kunle Afolayan is set to produce a stage adaptation of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dwellers. The production,...
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has issued a scathing critique of the government’s response to recent “hunger marches” across the nation....
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) Art & Cultural Foundation has curated a compelling selection of 11 books that embody...
The literary world and admirers across Nigeria and beyond continue to honour Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka as celebrations for his...
The Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange (WSICE) programme, which took off on July 12, 2024, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria,...
1. Enigmata. You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yet Aligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed...
Even at 90, Wole Soyinka whose famous quote is “the man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny” continues to write and live out the essence of what the Swedish Academy described as one "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence
The Man Died is important as a historical testament of a nation told from the point of view of a writer, activist and politically engaged intellectual who has interrogated the failings of the Nigerian state for over a half century.
Ultimately, the Soyinka versus Obidients rift is mostly an intergenerational spat even as their derision of Soyinka’s Nobel Prize for Literature continues. Many, including Obidients, will argue, however, that it’s a fight for justice
The documentary’s biggest achievement lies in the way it humanises Wole Soyinka by shining a bright light on the Nobel laureate’s private life away from his books
Guests at the premiere who came from across the world included kings and diplomats, writers and publishers, actors and filmmakers, friends and fans of Wole Soyinka as well as his sister and children.