Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 13. Juli 1934 |
Geburtsort | Abeokuta |
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Beschreibung | Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka ist ein nigerianischer Schriftsteller und Literaturnobelpreisträger (1986). In der Begründung für die Zuerkennung des Preises, der damit erstmals an einen Vertreter der afrikanischen Literatur ging, hieß es, er gestalte „in breiter kultureller Perspektive und mit poetischen Obertönen das Drama des menschlichen Seins“. Seit 1994 ist Soyinka Goodwill-Botschafter der UNESCO. |
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
