Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, will be the guest this weekend on the Glo-sponsored African Voices Playmakers, a 30-minute magazine programme on CNN International.
The audience will be taken on an entertaining journey with the renowned author as he shares the principles, convictions, and passion that shaped his extraordinary life and career, hosted by show anchor Larry Madowo.
Known in his younger days as Kongi, Soyinka will also discuss the amazing activism that shaped his writing and served as the inspiration for an upcoming movie this year about his political imprisonment in Nigeria. This edition of the programme is honouring Soyinka’s ninetieth birthday.
The 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature was born on July 13, 1934, and was recognized for his “wide cultural perspective and… poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence”.
Soyinka got his start in literature as a student at University College, Ibadan, now known as the University of Ibadan and later at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
In addition to receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, Soyinka was also honoured with the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009, the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 1990, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2012, and the Europe Theatre Prize, Special Prize in 2017.
African Voices Playmakers will 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.
