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Article: Why I am a secular humanist. (interview with Wole Soyinka)
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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An Interview with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka
As long as there have been dictatorial military regimes in Nigeria, writer Wole Soyinka has spoken out against them. Championing democracy over the last 30 years earned him a two-decade prison sentence. The current regime, under General Sani Abacha, has given Soyinka a death sentence that has forced him to flee his homeland. He now lives in the United States, and is Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts.
Soyinka is the first sub-Saharan African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he received in 1986. He is also a Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. The author of the ...