USA Africa Dialogue Series - BJ on Soyinka as a "great teacher"

"Soyinka was a great and inspiring teacher but in a very special kind of a way. He was a hugely charismatic teacher, but he wasn't always present in the class. Adelugba and Adedeji covered up for him most of the time. But the times when he came to class, he was incredibly stimulating. The class he taught me was Dramatic Criticism and he was great. I think in a whole semester, maybe he came two or three times. That was all. He rarely came to class and other people were doing his teaching obligations for him. But you must remember that that was his time of intense and prodigious creativity. He came to class two or three times and that was all I had of him as a teacher." Biodun Jeyifo

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/02/06/biodun-jeyifo-reflections-of-a-radical-literary-critic-theorist-unionist-and-columnist/

 

Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan

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