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" The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest. "

Wole Soyinka

Living

Justice

Rest

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Wole Soyinka

About

Fond

" England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it. "

" Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of. "

" Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. "

" Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. "

" I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence. "

" But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. "

" Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people. "

" You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day. "

" But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. "

" I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture. "

Wole Soyinka

Words

Where

" Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. "

" There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context. "

" The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns. "

Wole Soyinka

Visionary

People

" A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. "

" I take friendship very seriously. "

" But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. "

" Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done. "

" After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No. "

" There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. "

" My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. "

Wole Soyinka

Reading

Music

" I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam. "

" We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements. "

" The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan. "

" My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me. "

Wole Soyinka

Father

Process

" African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. "