The Globacom-sponsored CNN International magazine programme, African Voices Playmakers, will this weekend feature literary legend, Professor Wole Soyinka.
The author who celebrated his 90th birthday recently, will share insights into his remarkable life, career, and the values that have shaped his work. He will also discuss his courageous activism which has inspired an upcoming movie about his political incarceration in Nigeria.
Soyinka was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 for his wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones. His impressive educational background includes studying at University College, Ibadan, and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
Some of his notable works include: “A Dance of the Forests,” “The Lion and the Jewel,” “Death and the King’s Horseman,” and “The Strong Breed” (Play), while the novels also include “The Interpreters,” “Season of Anomy,” and “Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth”.
Apart from the Nobel Prize, Soyinka also received many outstanding awards including the Benson Medal, Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Europe Theatre Prize.
Viewers across the world will enjoy an inspiring conversation with Professor Soyinka on African Voices Playmakers at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday on DSTV Channel 401. Repeats will be broadcast the same Saturday at noon; Sunday at 4.30 a.m. and 7.00 p.m.; and on Monday at 4.00 a.m. The same edition will be repeated on Saturday next week at 8.30 a.m. and 12 noon and on Sunday at 4.30 a.m. and 7.00 p.m.
