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It is not uncommon in Nigeria for one ethnic group to make another ethnic group the target of ethnic slurs in form of unfavorable, derisive or disparaging jokes, sayings, or riddles.   Lately, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka (WS) has been the target of ethnic slurs, disparaging jokes with denigrative epithets hurled at him by ObidientZombies and some Igbo interpreters of maladies. WS crime was characterization of Labor Party presidential candidate Datti Ahmed’s juvenile tantrums over the results ...

Wole Soyinka’s writing has explored the same themes for decades.

Wole Soyinka’s writing has explored the same themes for decades.

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known simply as Wole Soyinka, can’t be easily described. He is a teacher, an ideologue, a scholar and an iconoc

African theatre, effectively, the theatre of Africa south of the Sahara that emerged in the postcolonial era—that is to say, from the mid-20th century onward. It is not possible to talk of much African theatre as if it fell into discrete historical or national patterns. Colonial boundaries ignored