Wole Soyinka is by every intellectual and academic classification an iconic figure. His reputation blossomed after he won the Nobel Laureate in 1986 having distinguished himself as a literary genius. For involving in the Nigeria/Biafra war, the Yakubu Gowon atrocious military junta incarcerated him.
TEMPERS flared between two MPs during a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry on the National Covid-19 Secretariat (Nacosec). The hearing had to be briefly stopped after a heated exchange between committee member ‘Mamarame Matela and chairman ‘Machabana Lemphane-Letsie. This was after Matela, the Socialist Revolutionary MP, felt that Lemphane-Letsie was shutting her out […]
Perhaps the best way to begin this piece is to ask readers to dust off their copies of Ngugi Wa Thiong’O’ s Weep Not, Child, Alex La Guma’s A walk in the