“The history of many nations is so flawed that it screams constantly for redress…Neither the tenacity of state repression nor the longevity of an illusion is adequate to guarantee an eternity to nationhood whose foundations are unsound…,” writes Soyinka in The Open Sore of a Continent.
I salute Prof. Wole Soyinka at 80 for his contributions to Nigeria and to humanity. As he noted in his prison memoirs, The Man Died, "The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny." I hope, like him and others, we can inspire a new generation of young men and women whose mantra is, a better country and, indeed, a better world is possible!
Read more…http://www.chidoonumah.com/2014/07/for-soyinka-and-men-in-my-life.html#axzz375fkSf1t
Chido Onumah
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