I expected a master piece from a mastermind in You Must Set Forth at Dawn, and I was not disappointed. Indeed, I got value for the money and time I spent on this engaging memoir by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.The author has been one of the prominent actors in the political and socio-economic jou...
The Preliminaries:Two Responses post 9/11: "You are either with us and against the terrorists, or you are on the side of the terrorists. We do not require the world's approval since we are divinely guided." - George Bush"The world is now clearly divided into two - the world of the followers of Is...
His homeland was then still a British dependency. His father was headmaster of an Anglican primary school, and his mother, whom he nicknamed “Wild Christian,” was a shop owner and trader. In 1981, Soyinka published Aké, a memoir about his youth, described in The New York Times as “a classic of ch...
I never knew when she would turn the tables, corner me with overwhelming facts. Once a week, mostly at the stroke of midnight, Rusty knocked at my door. We spoke, laughed, argued and reflected on things under the sun: poverty in the world, how sugar daddies preyed on willing campus sluts, sexual ...