8th Wole Soyinka Lecture Archives - Wole Soyinka Lecture Series https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/category/8th-wole-soyinka-lecture/ Advancing Good Governance, Social Justice & Democratic Ideals Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:35:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Wole-Soyinka-Lecture-Series-32x32.jpg 8th Wole Soyinka Lecture Archives - Wole Soyinka Lecture Series https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/category/8th-wole-soyinka-lecture/ 32 32 A Dream Achieved! https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/8th-wole-soyinka-lecture/a-dream-achieved/ https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/8th-wole-soyinka-lecture/a-dream-achieved/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:12:49 +0000 https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/?p=1581 On 29 June 2005, Professor Soyinka wrote, in United Kingdom’s version of “The Guardian”, an article that he titled “A Dream Perverted”. The dream to which he referred was his role and involvement in the formation of this nation’s and indeed Africa’s first campus fraternity, ours. The perversion to which he referred was the degeneration […]

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]]> https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/8th-wole-soyinka-lecture/a-dream-achieved/feed/ 1 Cults, Society and Impunity! https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/8th-wole-soyinka-lecture/cults-society-and-impunity/ https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/8th-wole-soyinka-lecture/cults-society-and-impunity/#respond Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:04:18 +0000 https://wolesoyinkalecture.org/?p=1578 Lecture took a discussion format, which included Wole Soyinka. Discussions were based on the documentary on campus cults that was produced by Wole Soyinka. Prof Soyinka showed the documentary to the audience. The documentary was “a report for Channel 4 News, he returned to Nigeria to find his alma mater being exorcised – part of […]

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]]> Lecture took a discussion format, which included Wole Soyinka. Discussions were based on the documentary on campus cults that was produced by Wole Soyinka. Prof Soyinka showed the documentary to the audience. The documentary was “a report for Channel 4 News, he returned to Nigeria to find his alma mater being exorcised – part of a national clampdown on the copycat ‘cults’ blamed for a series of campus atrocities. How has this come to pass?” As Guardian Newspaper United Kingdom captured it.

Wole Soyinka in his remarks revisited issues he raises in the documentary as well as in an earlier lecture: “Cults, Counter Culture, and the Perils of Ignorance” that he delivered at the 50th anniversary celebration of National Association of Seadogs on December 13, 2002.

It also touched on issues he raised in an article that he titled “A Dream Perverted”, Professor Soyinka wrote, in Guardian Newspaper United Kingdom on 29 June 2005.

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