Glo holds a night with Wole Soyinka

Globacom has announced programme details for its planned celebration of literary icon and Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, and three of Nigeria’s young literary stars. In a statement released in Lagos on Friday, the company said the event will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, August 28, at Grand Ballroom of Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.  “A Night with Wole Soyinka and Nigeria’s Young Literary Stars” is being organized to pay tribute to Prof Soyinka, Sefi Atta, Tope Folarin and E.C. Osondu for their contributions to the study of literature and for uplifting the image of Nigeria in the global community.  Globacom said the night would feature a documentary on the life and times of the Nobel Laureate as well as a reading of his works by the three young literary Nigerian writers. The three young writers, the company explained, would share their personal perspectives on African literature and the contributions of Prof Soyinka at an interactive exchange. They would thereafter take turns to read from Soyinka’s works of their choice. Sefi Atta, a 2006 winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, will take readings from the Nobel Laureate’s Ake: The Years of Childhood, which she said is “the summation of my interests and concerns as a writer: family, history, and social and political conflict”.  E.C. Osondu, who won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2009, said he would read from Soyinka’s The Man Died because “it has two qualities that come to mind when I think of Wole Soyinka – the man and the writer – Courage and Humor”.  The last author, Tope Folarin, also a Caine Prize for African Writing winner (2013) said he opted to read You Must Set Forth at Dawn because “it is a wonderfully written memoir, and also because it provides a vivid account of Professor Soyinka’s development as a thinker, artist, activist and scholar.”

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