Advert

Translate

Saturday, September 28, 2013

WOLE SOYINKA SURVIVED THE KENYAN MALL TERRORIST ATTACK












But for providence, Nigeria's Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, would have been among the dead in the terror attack that took place at the Nairobi Westgate mall in Kenya last weekend.

Speaking at a press conference at the Freedom Park in Victoria Island, Lagos, on Friday in honour of the late Ghanaian poet, Professor Kofi Awoonor who died in the attack, Soyinka led a group of Nigerian writers to condemn the Nairobi massacre.

“Those who organised and carried out the outrage on innocent lives in Nairobi are carriers of the most lethal virus of corruption imaginable – corruption of the soul, corruption of the spirit, corruption of that animating humanistic essence that separates us from predatory beasts." Soyinka said he and Prof Awoonor would have attended the Storymoja/Hay Literature Festival, but couldn’t be there with him due to other pressing engagements he had elsewhere. “My absence was particularly regrettable, because I had planned to make up for my failure to turn up for the immediate prior edition. Participant or absentee however, this is one edition we shall not soon forget,” he said.

The literary iconic said, giving his close relationship with Awoonor, he might have been at the same place with him and could have been shot as well. He said: “Kofi and I could have been splitting a bottle at that same watering hole in between events and at the end of each day.”

Condemning the use of religion to commit atrocities, Soyinka, who spoke on the theme, “Humanity and Against,” said: "I am no theologian of any religion, but I aver that these assailants delude themselves with vistas of paradise after life, that their delusion is born of the perverted reading of salvation and redemption.”

5 comments:

  1. G̷̩̥̊D̶̲̥̅̊​ directed his step. He should be Ŧђɑ̤̥̈̊п̥̥̲̣̣̣kƨ̣̣̣̇̇̇̇ ful to G̷̩̥̊D̶̲̥̅̊​

    ReplyDelete
  2. Nna anyi Wole, we thank God for you. Only God will judge those people.

    ReplyDelete
  3. If only u cld praize God wit all dis grammer

    ReplyDelete
  4. Fully serviced Newly built 60 Units of (3 bedrooms Luxury apartments) with Bq. Clean Treated Borehole water,Swimming Pool, Gyms, Generators etc and 24/7 Security surveillance.
    Location: Ikoyi,Lagos.
    LEASE @95,000USD each apartment/per annum

    FOR SALES: with CofO :Fully Serviced 22 Units of (3 bedrooms Luxury Apartments with BQs)with Clean Treated Borehole water, swimming pool,Gyms, Generator etc &24/7 Security Surveillance.
    Location: Ikoyi, Lagos.
    @N3.5Billion

    Fully Serviced 3 Bedroom Ensuit apartment with BQ, Clean Treated Borehole water, Generators etc and 24/7 Security surveillance etc.
    Location: Ikoyi, Lagos.
    Lease@N5Million- Negotiable
    Sales@N95 Million- Negotiable

    Fully serviced 3 Units of (4 bedrooms Luxury Duplex) with BQs. Clean Treated Borehole water,Swimming Pool, Gyms, Generators etc and 24/7 Security surveillance.
    Location: Ikoyi,Lagos.(Former MTN's Staff Estate)
    LEASE @N10,000 each Duplex /per annum

    For Serious enquiries& Inspections:
    SwiftFix: +2347013089932
    sfmestatemanagment@gmail.com

    ReplyDelete
  5. Thanks to my father who informed me on the topic of this
    blog, this web site is truly remarkable.

    Here is my website web page - ,

    ReplyDelete