Globacom to celebrate Soyinka @90

Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka will be the featured guest on this weekend’s episode of African Voices Playmakers, a 30-minute magazine program sponsored by the telecommunications company Globacom and broadcasted on CNN International.

According to a statement on Thursday, the programme anchor, Larry Madowo, will take the audience through an engaging time with the Nobel Laureate, who will be sharing details of the values, the ideologies and the passion that formed the foundation of his enviable life and career.

The telecom operator said in the edition, which commemorates Soyinka’s 90th birthday, the writer would also recount the extraordinary activism that influenced his work and inspired a movie on his political incarceration in Nigeria planned for release this year.

Born Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka on July 13, 1934, he was awarded the Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1986 for his “wide cultural perspective and… poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence”.

Part of the statement reads, “Soyinka cut his teeth in literature as a student of the University College, Ibadan, now known as the University of Ibadan and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

“Aside from the Nobel Prize for Literature, Soyinka was also awarded the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 1990; the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lifetime Achievement, 2012; and the Europe Theatre Prize, Special Prize, 2017.”

The operator said African Voices Playmakers would air 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,” it added.

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