The saddest song to have come out of Africa in recent times was actually composed as a song of celebration, written to mark the ascendancy of an African-American to the presidency of the United States of America. It was a musical tribute by a Kenyan, and the lyrics say simply: it is easier for a Luo to be President of the United States than to become the President of Uganda.
The Luo are, of course, one of Kenya’s minority nationalities. Obama’s triumph took place, it will be recalled, after one of the most devastating riots ever witnessed in Kenya. It lasted weeks, left entire townships wiped off the face of Nairobi and environs, claimed hundreds of lives, many of them through singularly bestial forms of butchery. The panga reigned supreme. Those days were reminiscent – minus the scale – of the Rwandan massacres. Among the walking survivors are men who are traumatized for life, having been subjected to forced sexual mutilation. The cause? Denial of a people’s right to choose their own leader through the ballot box - that endemic curse of the modern African state. Kenya nonetheless made a claim on Obama as the logical spot for his first presidential touch-down on Black African soil. It should have been an occasion to be celebrated in festive accents as the return of the native son. If sentiment indeed weighed more on the scale of entitlements than humanity itself, the Kenyan claim would be universally unassailable.
The other, and indeed more presumptuous claimant to Barrack Obama’s recognition on his first presidential visit to the continent is of course, mine, Nigeria. The Nigerian nation has not witnessed an uprising on allied scale to Kenya’s in the last few decades, not since in the mid-1960s when a similar, but far less wholesale, indiscriminate campaign of arson and killings took place in a region that an incoming Head of State came to designate ‘the Wild, Wild West’. There was also the more recent spate of butchery in a northern state or two, but neither came close to matching the sheer brutality of the Kenyan scenario.
Nigeria cannot be ranked, needless to say, any higher on the democratic scale than Kenya, even though electoral robbery did not result in such mayhem, any more than it has led to a protracted Civil War that devastated the Ivory Coast in recent times. Nonetheless it is important to remind ourselves that the Biafran war of Secession that began in 1966 did not lack for flammable tributaries from accumulated electoral injustices. Memories of that war, and the fear of an even more nation destabilizing repeat have contributed to the seeming accomodativeness of the Nigerian people towards a now deeply entrenched project of national disenfranchisement. Only the complacent however dare eliminate possibilities of an eventual explosion from the suppressed rage that stems from civic dispossession, and the air of impunity that surrounds the incorrigible perpetrators. Indeed, this inevitability is seen by many – both insiders and outside observers – as only a matter of time. Since the debilitation of civil society through decades of military rule, Nigerians freely use the expression ‘internal colonialism’ as the readiest expression of the continuing suppression of popular will, an orchestrated democratic denial that operates in relay, and is sustained by a select hegemony resolved to remain in perpetual control of the nation. Offering nothing in return, this unproductive cabal has become increasingly arrogant and contemptuous in its dismissal of even a pragmatic semblance of a gesture towards fair dealing that sometimes salves the pride and dignity of a people.
This, then, is the background from which one listens to, or reads of, plaints of resentment and indignation from government cheer-leaders at Obama’s symbolic boycott of the ‘Giant of Africa’. They are lost to the irony of laying claim to recognition by a product of electoral equity, an African-American who came to power in a once openly racist nation through the ballot box. Such complainants are not stupid however, they are merely actors in a script of diabolical cynicism. How else it is possible for such politicians to conceive that a leader like Barack Obama, who has ascended to power through a respect for the manifested will of a people, would actually lend his presence to dignify any state that demonstrably rejects, indeed actively ridicules, the very means that brought him, Barrack Obama, to power? Blood, they say, is thicker than water. Obama’s gesture is intended to inform nations like Kenya and Nigeria that neither blood nor oil courses thicker than equity.
How sad it makes one – no, not the studied excision by Obama of those two nations from his itinerary – but the lack of objective self-assessment within the rulership circles of such ‘aggrieved’ nations! It evokes pity for the continent as a whole, that such political leadership exists today which, sooner than retire into their gilded holes to reflect, have actually gone to battle on behalf over some mystic entitlement, since such is not sustained by any credentials in democratic and responsible governance. Of the two, the case of our own nation, Nigeria, is obviously the more pathetic.
Primary among the qualities that earned Barrack Obama the prized crown of the American presidency was the public recognition of his intelligent even-handedness, the recognition of a thinking, knowledgeable being, analytic by training and temperament. Anyone who has read his memoirs - Dreams from my Father - or has somehow come into knowledge of his trajectory through childhood, his intellectual and political formation, all brought in evidence throughout a grueling political campaign, would understand immediately that Obama would sooner spend Thanksgiving Day with the genocidal government of Omar Bashir, or the throwback mullahs of Iran, than choose either Uganda or Nigeria for a first visit that not only pursues political and economic goals, but is profoundly symbolic.
The very astuteness of Barrack Obama, one that dictated the strategy of a political campaign that catapulted him to victory from the underdog position of a rank outsider, should have informed the ‘patriotic’ cheerleaders of African misgovernance that they can expect no preferential consideration from the 44th president of the American nation. This, just to refresh memories, was a candidate who ensured from the beginning that he would break with corporate patronage and thus, indebtedness, and rely largely on the mass contribution of cents and pennies to ensure a mandate of maximum independence. By contrast, behold the permanent indentureship of the Nigerian power base, not merely to the moneyed oligarchy, but to the most corrupt, indeed criminal elements within that disreputable oligarchy. Nigeria is a nation that repeatedly blows its chances to stand tall, to present to the world a massively endowed colossus, bestriding the continent with the over-abundant productive genius of its people and the generosity of nature resources.
What, instead, has been the actuality? A plague of incontinent rulers in relay, some in military uniform, others in civilian clothing, but all clones of one another, united in a commitment to unabashed profligacy, mutually assisted corruption and, to add insult to injury, an obsessive hankering for self-perpetuation, necessitating the cultivation of outright disdain for the elementary right of their citizens to a voice in leadership choice. Is this truly a nation that deserves the recognition, much less a gesture of respect, from any democratically elected leadership of the world, and one especially of such unprecedented political significance for the African continent itself?
A decade ago, needless to say, Ghana would also have been a non-contender. But the continent has witnessed, and remains envious of, the transformation that has taken place in Ghana, an internal process of self-recovery that nearly matches that of the United States in her transition from George Bush to Barrack Obama. Among the attributes of intelligence is the ability to create, or recognize the opportunity for self-renewal. Nigerians, at home or residing in the United States during the past decade, have not been slow to observe that the eight previous years in United States governance were uncannily paralleled within Nigeria – eight years of waste, deception, divisiveness and corruption, of advancing bankruptcy, eight years of arrogant subversion of democratic norms….all spearheaded by a man from whom the nation, the continent and the world expected so much, eight years that sent the nation spiraling into a reverse momentum that has earned it the humiliating designation of a ‘failed state’. Should an incoming product of the repudiation of such a shared past compromise his mandate by a significant visit to the other half, while that half remains fixated and unrepentant in its perpetuation of that disreputable past?
Of course if it were possible for Barrack Obama to visit Nigerians – the people that is – to express his condolences for such an unmerited state of affairs, parley with non-governmental organizations, exchange views with political alternatives, interact with the labour unions, hold talks with the insurgents of the oil-producing Delta region and offer direct succour to the neglected people of a benighted nation, I have no doubt whatsoever that Nigeria would indeed be his first choice. However, such a precedent being impossible – at least in these times - the only programme that remained would have been, at best, a tokenist interaction with the other Nigeria, duly vetted. The rest would be to wine and dine, sign some effete agreements and exchange presents with the current symbol of national decay and leadership alienation, a nation whose claim to the status of a giant is upheld only by the gigantesque dimensions of its retrogression since independence, its governance ineptness and the colossal scale of its corruption. Obama knows that every other hand he would shake at a state reception is steeped in sheer putrefaction from the sump of robbery, perhaps every third elbow deep in the blood of perceived political threats – across all levels of contestation.
Obama’s pronouncements indicate quite clearly that he would be the first to to admit that his own nation is past master of corruption both in its conduct at home and abroad, but he can boast that the Enrons, the Andersons, and the Madoffs are mere hostages of time, that sooner or later, they end up behind bars. Obama knows that the contrary is the case with Nigeria, that the Madoff-Enron breed will be presented as the leading citizens of the Nigerian nation, feted countrywide, that after their openly inglorious careers in and out of office, thanksgiving services are held for them in church and mosque, that it is such should-be social pariahs that will be lined up for formal handshakes and photo-ops with him, photos that they will proudly bequeath to their children and grandchildren, hang on their gilded walls and pillars of criminal impunity to the eternal glorification of decadence. He has chosen wisely to go the modest, unassuming flagbearer of the redemptive theology of Change.
The homecoming son knows that the Delta, Nigeria’s sole economic provider, for which all prior and potential modes of productivity have been jettisoned, is up in flames. I have wondered sometimes, by the way, whether it is a coincidence that one of the handful of officers of which the Nigerian army can be truly proud, now a retired Colonel, has taken to ostrich farming not far from Abuja, the seat of government. It cannot be by accident. Sooner or later, I think he reasons, the occupants of Aso Rock, and the profligate ‘representatives’ of the Nigerian people in the legislative houses will recognize the message of the ostrich, its fabled habit of burying its head in the sand of unconcern while the wind ruffles and exposes its behind. These days, it is no longer the wind, it is the fire, and only the ostrich does not yet recognize that its rear feathers are aflame. That is the lesson of the Delta uprising. Sometimes it is necessary to spell things out for the megaphones of, and pretenders to the mantle of leadership: what the Deltan insurgents are saying to the uncaring state is that the present conflict goes beyond the decades-old contemptuous neglect of the goose that lays the golden egg.
They are annunciating, in clear terms, that a system that siphons off an obscene percentage of the national revenue to sustain the rites, rituals and member life-styles of legislative houses, is ultimately unsustainable. They are serving notice - and their publicised manifestoes add up to no less – that the Nigerian state is itself untenable as presently constituted and governed, and must be taken apart, then re-assembled, this time in a manner that reflects the true aspirations and entitlements of the components and providers of that artificial entity. They are pointing out a noticeable constant: that time and time again, even when an incoming national leader has earlier promised no less than a drastic overhaul, no sooner does he settle into that power base than he proceeds to shore up and consolidate a cracked and collapsing edifice. This he does – the pattern has become predictable and boring - by a modest re-distribution among a restricted, conniving elite, but most often by an unscrupulous conversion of state power, brutal repression, political assassinations and divisive strategies. This was what the nation suffered – yet again – during the eight years of misrule of the last incumbent, a supposedly Born-Again democrat and assiduous bible-thumper. This, in sum, is the extraction, implicit or overt in pronouncements, by the Deltan insurgents.
I shall waste no more time on the deviants of the movement, the opportunists and mercenaries, the kidnappers for ransom, rapists, extortionists and psychopaths whose operations have contributed to obscuring the ideological core of the Movement for the Emancipation of the the Niger Delta (MEND), a confusion assiduously nurtured by the corrupt leadership of the nation. The outside world knows its own history, and should be the last to point fingers at the presence of extortionists and psychopaths in any movement, no matter how lofty its ideals. It is for us, within the Nigerian nation, to sort out those criminals and bring them to justice, a task that is however complicated by the presence of far more seasoned, far more deeply entrenched criminals, more impudent extortionists, assassins, the barefaced, wholesale expropriators of a nation’s resources in positions of power, reveling in the now untamable rampage of impunity. Now, this is the mafiadom whose triumphalist existence a democratically elected outsider, torch-bearer of a phenomenal precedent, is expected to legitimize by an inaugural visitation!
The super-patriots and national chauvinists must however be encouraged to continue to wallow, infuriated, in the sludge of national amour-propre, bawds to the careerists of open prostitution. We can only remind them that, outside their constricted purlieu, there are other national leaders who are not quite as promiscuous as they are, or are accustomed to encountering. They should content themselves with the representative emotion of the present selected national leader who, unbelieving that he actually sat in the presence of a former United States president, could not contain himself as he gushed: This is the happiest moment of my life. That presidential host was George Bush II. By contrast, this is indeed one of those instances when absence makes the heart grow fonder. For the average Nigerian, this month of July 2009, when another president did NOT step foot on Nigerian soil, is a month to treasure. The sentiment, after all, is only borrowed from that of the enraptured home president, for what such a Nigerian is saying, equally enraptured is also: this is the happiest moment of my life.
Wole Soyinka
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adeO
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... Prof is one of a kind and in a country where integrity is non existent and most people of his stature have sold their soul to the devil, he is one in a billion, funny but looking back, when the late Fela Kuti was with us they tried to make us believe there was something wrong with him when it was them who were abnormal he had more morals integrity and self respect than these common criminals. PROF FOR PRESIDENT PLEASE SIR YOU CAN LEAD US TO THE PROMISED LAND I have never voted in Nigeria but I would get on a plane fly into Nigeria and vote for you |
Chief Emmanuel E
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... It was a blessing in disguise that President Obama nevr and may never visit Nigeria; it would have been only an avenue for the '' criminals - leaders'' to further loot the country's resources as committees and sb-sub committees to embezzle money would have been set selfishly. |
okunade Ajani M.
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... The eye as small an organ in the body is culturally regarded to as the "light of the body". A man, therefore, who can not see can never live an independent life. I think it is high time we Nigerians irrespective of status start to deliberate with all seriousness how to bring light into our lives. Where there in no energy, there is no power to move on.We must be willing to restore back the glory of the land. Hope is not lost on Nigeria as the giant of Africa. We must see our nation move on again.Power must be restored and the nation must move on. |
TruthHurts
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... Just for one second, Imagine a professor in the name of WOLE SOYINKA becoming a president of Nigeria. I hope this happens in my life time. Just imagine how the image of Nigeria would look like to the outside world. Professor Wole Soyinka is what Nigeria needs now as a presidential candidate come 2011 and i will go back to Nigeria to put my skills to test to getting him elected. Prof please if you are going to run, come out as an independent candidate and we will start mobilising but let's see what the electoral reform would look like. I worked behind the scenes during the Obama campaign & we can replicate that efforts in Nigeria to save our country. Prof please start talking to fellow Nigerian decent intellectuals, civil societies & the labour movement, start organising lectures be visible on TV programs like AIT Focus Nigeria & other stations, this way & by doing so, you are gradually stimulating the minds of Nigeria and in so doing the people at home will join the chorus Let's get you elected prof & the Nigerian problem will end |
Deji Albert Olumese
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... I agree fully, Nigeria is the giant of Africa. ''Giant'' of Africa in every bad sense.............! Surely it is the GIANT ..........in Thievery. Giant in Looting Giant in electoral fraud! Giant in Human rights abuse! Giant in political prostituting! Giant in maiming and killing of its own in the name of JTF! Giant in the raping and plundering of our common wealth and good by a select few! Giant in putting round square pegs in round holes (like the case of the celebrated agric expert (Mustapha) being made the minister of defence. Giant in awarding themselves jumbo pay cheques, while the workers who makes it possible for the jumbo pay cheques, go home in empty stomachs. Giant in strikes and collapse of education sector while, the minister put in charge to supervise the ministry, throws the most lavish and expensive birthday and silver jubilee marriage celebration ever in the history of the existence if the ''giant'' for himself & family and friends, while the tertiary teachers who are clamouring for a decent wage and working condition can hardly celebrate their own child's first year birthday or remember the day they married their wives, talk less of celebrating silver or golden jubilee. Of course Nigeria is the giant of Africa in the reverse!!!!!! No disputing that fact!! Albert Olumese |
Bette
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... One of the greatest gifts that artists have, I think, is their ability to find words and symbols that capture in a very crisp and precise way the prevailing sentiments, mentalities and social concerns of people in different places at different times. And I think this is what Soyinka has always done, and is still doing. Soyinka's critique here is familiar; a clear denunciation of the continuities of our national idiocy where we as a people have consistently preyed on our own people and have been the greatest enemies of our own growth. This is the sermon that Soyinka has been preaching for the past 5o years or so. My real worry, and I think this is the real gap in his piece, is where we’re going from here. But one might also argue that by telling us what is wrong, the message is undoubtedly clear; stop bullying and exploiting your own people. Let democracy flourish and let social and economic equity be our guiding principle. Talking to young Nigerians all over the world, I think this lesson is by now clear to everyone. The real problem is whether we have the kind of political will that Obama muscled in making history in America to make history in Nigeria. You only need to chat with an average Nigerian youth to know that the situation is almost hopeless. Not only is our new generation apolitical, they have bought into the culture of corruption that basically ails our nation. My contention thus is that the onus is no longer on the Soyinkas and the Achebes but on us the younger generation. And until we break from the status quo like Obama did in the US, we’d still be doing the same dance in the next century. In fact, the Luo song could possibly be adapted into a Nigerian song with the lyrics “It is easier for a Kenyan to be an American president than for a Nigerian to treat his own people right.” |
Imo Nkweini
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... All we need is a trigger. A day will come. We will all sing Hallelujah. Only if we individually have made up our minds to abstain from corruption no matter how enticing it is. |
D. Rotimi
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... In a country where minds like Ribadu gets ridiculed 4 enforcing laws he took an oath to, where great minds like Ken Saro-wiwa and others can get slaughtered in broad daylight just 4 leading a paceful protest over a very smaaaall fraction of the country. It is rather shocking that some of my fellow Nigerians still wonder why the average man, barely able to fend for his family,or to afford any internet access, is not out protesting against Aso Rock. The real question is, in this day in age, what happened to the Nigerian press(within d country).Believe me, decades of suppression,mental and physical torture can actually render an able bodied human to the point of catatonic stupor. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRESS. |
Lere Shakunle
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... Yes Sir, I agree with you completely on this. And by reading my posting on SR on Barack Obama’s Speech in Ghana, I am so happy that we are saying the same thing. Yes, this makes feel happy indeed. Just now I read in a Nigerian newspaper that today is your birthday. I am appealing to all at Sahara Reporters to help join me in saying, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR DEAR, OUR OWN PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA. As we say it Germany, PROST! ==========Excerpt from my Letter on Obama’s Speech in Ghana =========== ===begins President Barack Obama, welcome back home, away from home. I was highly impressed, as always by your speeches - what with the poetic beauty and the intellectual depth that constitute their kind of stamp that makes each a step on the sands of time in the making of history - and deeply touched by what you said in Accra, speaking as it were to Africa and to Ghana. Well, for all I know, I take a special joy in having a library of your Speeches wherever I may come across them including this Message to Africa from Accra. Just this evening – Oh, it’s another day again! – OK, just like night I was wondering about what could be wrong with Nigerians that they have not marched to the streets to make democracy work. For all I know, in the history of the country, it has been individuals – Wole Soyinka, Tai Solarin, Gani Fawehinmi and very few others, who had braved and dared it all to do make the difference you mentioned here: >As I said earlier, Africa's future is up to Africans. |
Olaolu Aremo
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... Wole Soyinka has not written anything new.Like Texbee said earlier Fela has already written songs about it all. Obama has shown courage by not playing diplomatic politics with African leaders. For those who have ears let them listen. |
Bim
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... Enough said, when are we going to Act. We have to act and stop talking which we have been doing for decades.!!!! |
Nathan Oparaeche
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... Prof. Wole Soyinka like Paul of Tarsus usually writes in cryptic notes but this time he is as clear as crystal, clear enough to make those in 'power' understand the saying that the wrestler who holds his opponent down is also keeping himself down. I guess that the irony is not lost on those who through their acts of commission and omission have contributed in no small way to the ills ravaging the country, incuding kidnapping. When those miscreants see their fellows looting the nation unpunished, because they are in 'politics', they have no qualms in hostage taking. President Obama in snubbing the 'giant' and embracing the democrate, is sending an overdue message to our leadership which I believe the President will take to heart and react appropriately. I do not know why I still believe that Musa will suprise us big-time. Let it be sooner rather than later. |
Ferdinand, Lagos
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... I quite agree with Prof. Wole Soyinka that President Obama's speech was a wakeup call to the progressives. We have talked and talked, but this is no time for rhetorics, it is time for decisive actions from all well meaning Nigerians. We are dealing with people that corruption and tyranny has made deaf, dumb and thick skinned. they will never change untill they enter their grave. it behoves on all of us to take our destiny in our hands and stop these vultures from destroying our tomorrow, haven successfully destroyed our today. |
Seun Fayomade
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... Nigerians,the fact is,there is a need to get together at such a time as this to force the country to the right track.We need to be proactive the time for rhetorics is over,this is the time to come with affirmative action and say no to internal tyranny and yes to democracy and good governance. The time for affirmative actions |
osagieoscar asemota
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... The Nigerian Obama in disguise -Wole Soyinka has said it all to whomever have ear in the nation political & economy direction, to Hear what the world president observes missing in our quest to obtain equitable justices in the hands of Nigeria murdering & looting leaderships. The real power is in our hands- african youth, wherever! So, we have to take it at allcost and espounge it to whoever that deserves it for proper utilization to uplift the good meaning of societal empowerment. Let all Nigerians be advised that, we cannot continue to keepquite to undermine our sovereighty. as obama is the strongest man on earth, sent by God to liberate us from the sharkels of Northern military/hausaFulani thieves in Nigeria. They have been warned not to indimidate or use their desert prophet & religion to lordover us any more, as there's no place for such a barbaric ideology. I hope the remaining minna rats and katsina carmels find their inglorious exit as a matter of urgency or else the strongest of Hurricane Moses-Obama will sweep them in no distant time, for its worse and unjustifiable for foreign national like HausaFulani in Nigeria Nations to force their inhuman will on the aborigins of Nigeria-the nigerdelta. Iwu of INEC must wihin the next three months resign his fraudulent appointment as the nation political umpire. Okiro is gone wayover beyound the circle of life and is to burry himself in lonely cemetery soonest! David evil-Mark and the Bank-Olehhh with their unelected House members are also to dissolves themselves into soluble solution by resigning emass from their looting spree, instead of directing the nation they go to their various chambers at will, only to discuss increament of their salaries and bonuses, while they turn their deaf hear against obasanjo/yardua legacy of killing, looting and bombing Rightful owner of the Goose that lay the Nigerian Nation Golden Eggs, what an animal kingdom rule of Beasts of No Genders! bribery according to the world youth energizer-Obama, should be a thing of the past henceforth in Nigeria and allover the world. Teachers must be affectionate by immediately returning to class rooms and wait for better incentives. judges must strive to maitain their independency by acting in the tre position of an arbitire-God in human representation in our daily lives. While the armrobbers police are to throw down their devil appetite and strive to prevent, than escalate crime in Nigeria. private sector are also to be humane in whichever opportunity endeavour to assist and benefits the society. while we electorate should resist the temptation of selling our Rights & franchises for an immediate inglorious yarnis or hunger. We must Resist Nigeria devil power manipulators like ibb, obj,atiku,Aneni-tony,ibori,igbinedion&family, sylva,akpabios,yugudas, shekarus,oyinlolas,Aooduakaas, farida waziri and other recognised criminals among us from now till and after 2011. Wole, we pray God to keep you on top this agenda for Nigeria Reformation, and not rebranding, as we are not happy to be rebranded a culterminated Nation with such an evil-appaulence(distortable) characters as mentioned above! Long live Wole Soyinka! long live Barrack Obama!, Long live Nigerian youth and Long live New Nigeria! No more room for Power renewal through ammendments or Coup, even elongated consolidation! All Nigerians vieying for political or economy direction-postions, must electorally pass the requirement of their constituencies, meet majority vote of our electorates and not electoral office. |
tata
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... do u know how much it would have cost nigeria to host obama....abeg make he take him wahala jare... |
Texbee
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... Obama did not say anything new but the weight is heavier, if you doubt this statement go and listen to Fela Anikulapo song.'' Either you talk or not one day we will all die''. What ,makes the situation pathetic now is that while other nations are progressing we are retrogressing and thats why we are being isolated. This is the time for all to talk against tyranny. |
kunle Edun
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... If you dont know let me tell you;it was good that obama did not come to Nigeria.What can we actually celegrate as the result of more than 10 years civilian(not democratic) rule? Dont you know that billions would have been further looted under the guise of hosting Obama by every arm and parastatal of government? Dont you know that his coming would have given legitimacy to kleptomaniac regime of Yar'Adua and thus embolden them to steal more?Even if Nigeria is leaderless,which is the truth,must we the citizens be visionless? The present leaders are not even ashamed of the transformation going ion in Ghana because our news media is still replete with eye-popping corruption going on in Aso Rock,NA,State Houses of Assembly,Governors'offices and to make matters worse,an ordinarily coucillor in Nigeria can give as a gift the 30 years salary of an emeritus professor.Our destiny is in our hands not in the blood-stained hands of the looters who pretend to be leaders.And were we actually expecting Obama to shake the hands of the vampires in the National assembly and Aso Rock? We are not serious. |
D. Rotimi
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... As a Nigerian my hope is that one day, very soon, the younger generation will come to understand that the future of Nigeria depends greatly on how much they are willing to have their voices heard today. Prof. Wole Soyinka can only do so much. Wake up my brothers and sisters,wake up! Best wishes to the professor. May he live long enough to see the country rivive her self from the many years of distruction and self deprivation. |
