Glo-sponsored African Voices Playmakers hosts Wole Soyinka

African Voices Playmakers, CNN Worldwide’s  journal programme, will this week host world famend playwright, dramatist, poet and rights activist,  Professor Wole Soyinka. The 30-minute programme is sponsored by digital options supplier, Globacom.

The Nobel Laureate  will probably be sharing particulars of the values, the ideologies and the eagerness that shaped the muse of his enviable life and profession.

This week’s version commemorates Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka’s ninetieth birthday, having been born on July 13, 1934 in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

He will even regale viewers with  the main points of his extraordinary activism which birthed his literary works. A film which highlights  his political incarceration in Nigeria is billed for launch this 12 months.

Having gained worldwide reputation by his books in prose, poetry and drama, Soyinka grew to become the primary African author to win  the Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1986 for his “broad cultural perspective and… poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence”.

As a pupil of the College School, Ibadan, now generally known as the University of Ibadan, his inventive skills had been noticeable. He later gained admission to the College of Leeds in the UK for a Grasp’s diploma in Comparative Literature.

Added to his Nobel Prize,  Soyinka additionally bought  the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 1990;  Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009;  Anisfield-Wolf E-book Award, Lifetime Achievement, 2012, and the Europe Theatre Prize, Particular Prize, 2017.

In his honour at 90, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu renamed the Nationwide Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, him.

The programme  will probably be broadcast at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday on DSTV Channel 401. Repeats will probably be broadcast the identical Saturday at midday; Sunday at 4.30 a.m. and seven.00 p.m.; and on Monday at 4.00 a.m. Repeats   will probably be on Saturday subsequent week at 8.30 a.m. and 12 midday and on Sunday at 4.30 a.m. and seven.00 p.m.