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HARDtalk: Wole Soyinka - Nobel Literature Laureate

Nobel Prize winner Prof Wole Soyinka

09/05/2014

Wole Soyinka - Nobel Literature Laureate

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Shaun Ley speaks to Nigerian author Wole Soyinka.

Wole Soyinka is Nigeria's most prominent writer, the first African to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Does Nigeria have a future?

Nigeria's century has been assessed as '100 years of trauma'. No more apparent than in the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls by a militant Islamist group that perceives learning as an alien imposition by Christians and Europeans.

Wole Soyinka is Nigeria's most prominent writer, the first African to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Persecuted by past governments for his commitment to democracy, what does he make of how Nigeria has stood up to the pressures of insurgency, the temptations of oil wealth and the corruption critics say is endemic. Does a state that cannot even guarantee the safety of its children have a future?

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