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Wole Soyinka
World Book Club - October 05, 2021 10:20 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 332 ratingsThis month, to kick off a mini-season to celebrate a very special centenary World Book Club talks, for a second time, to the Nobel Prize-winning giant of world literature, Professor Wole Soyinka, about one hundred years of the writers’ organisation English PEN. PEN is the influential pressure gr...
Wole Soyinka: The Literary Lion
What It Takes® - November 04, 2019 08:05 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 913 ratingsAfrica's preeminent writer, and one of its greatest advocates for democracy and justice, talks here about the activism that landed him in solitary confinement for two years during Nigeria's civil war. Wole Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He describes here his ...
Amanpour: Richard Dearlove, Becca Heller and Wole Soyinka
Amanpour - February 15, 2019 16:12 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratingsRichard Dearlove, the former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service joins Christiane Amanpour in London to discuss dangers facing the West from Syria to Brexit. Our Alicia Menendez talks to Becca Heller, the Co-Founder of the International Refugee Assistance Program about her work protec...
Wole Soyinka on Hollywood, Reparations, and Morgan Freeman
Library Talks - November 15, 2016 15:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsFor this week’s episode we’re bringing you a conversation between two Nigerian authors whose works include plays, novels, poetry, essays and more. Chris Abani is known as an international voice on humanitarianism, art, ethics and our shared political responsibility. Wole Soyinka won of the Nobel...
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