Wole Soyinka Archives - Intervention

How President Tinubu Can Remake the LGCs in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2024In: GovernanceTags: APC, Governors, INEC, Joint Accounts Allocation Committee, LGCs, Shehu Shagari, SIEC, Supreme Court, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

By Chief Stephen Lawani President Bola Tinubu has, from a completely unexpected angle, offered something unifying of Nigerians. It is last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling granting financial... Read more

Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Achebe, Amos Tutola, Collective stupidity, Derrida, Ella Agunaga, God, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Marx, Religion, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

It is possible to have sat in conversation with Bongos Ikwue several times previously but to find him a different person in a more recent encounter. But that is not because he is slippery. I... Read more

Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Bala Mohammed, Bauchi humanism, Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Ibrahim Tahir, Islamisation, NEPU, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sa’adu Zungur, Theatre for Development, UI, Wole Soyinka, ‘radical tradition in Northern Nigeria’No CommentsViews:

The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Not Ngugi Wa Thiongo!

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Chimamanda Adichie, Egypt, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Nuruddin Fara, US, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

The Africans, however defined, have their own idea of which African writer should win the Nobel Prize on Literature. The Swedish Academy which decides who wins have their own idea of which A... Read more

Imposing Third Term on Buhari in 2022/23

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'Disco Criticics', Buharites, Third Term, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

One tragic element in Nigeria is how the political education of most agitators in Nigerian politics does not appear to immunize them against what Wole Soyinka has called ‘disco criticism’ or... Read more

Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Bala Usman, Chinua Achebe, Jigawa State, NEPU, NPC, NPN, PRP, Sule Lamido, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria By Adagbo ONOJA A few days ago, someone circulated an existing picture of the graveside of Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi... Read more

Is the Beaten Track Beaten?

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2017In: GovernanceTags: All Nigeria People's Party - ANPP, Cabals, Government of National Unity, IPOB, Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Umaru Yar’Adua, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

Is the Beaten Track Beaten? In 1999, General Olusegun Obasanjo became the president of Nigeria against the background of a highly fragmented or a deeply divided country. June 12 politics mad... Read more

Cracking General Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: January 23, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Eye of Time', Awujale of Ijebuland, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Dr Ibrahim Tahir, Machiavelli, Prof Isawa Elaigwu, Prof Mvendaga Jibo, Prof Sam Oyovbaire, TY Danjuma, Wole Soyinka, Yakubu MohammedNo CommentsViews:

Cracking General Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics By Adagbo ONOJA At a time when the sources of the subjective requirements for rebuilding Nigeria are still indeterminable, the... Read more

History in Nigerian Schools, But What Manner of History?

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa, APC, Bala Usmans, Bola Tinubu, CHINA, CNN, Europe, George Kwanashie, Ibadan, Joseph Inikori, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, Mallam Adamu Adamu, Monday Mangvat, Muhammadu Buhari, Okibe Sam Eza, Sule Bellos, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria has just restored the teaching of History in schools, five years after it was taken off in favour of Civics. The decision was the outcome of pressures, pressure informed by a belief... Read more

Intervention Got It Right

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abdulsalami Abubakar, BOKO HARAM, Goodluck Jonathan, Herdsmen, Lai Mohammed, Mohammadu Buhari, Niger Delta, olusegun Obasanjo, Tunde Bakare, Wole Soyinka, Yakubu DogaraNo CommentsViews:

This newspaper’s reading of recent visit of a number of high profile players to Aso Rock Villa, the seat of federal power in Nigeria as the eve of a major policy has been confirmed correct.... Read more