A House for Mr Soyinka
August 24, 2018 9:17 PM Subscribe
A House for Mr. Soyinka If the estate's location deep in the bush inconvenienced his visitors, he clearly delighted in their discomfort. Evocative interview with a robust 84-year-old Wole Soyinka that coincides with news of the death of his fellow Nobel in lit recipient, V S Naipaul. Soyinka gives Naipaul the credit he deserves for Biswas and the tribute he merits for his lifelong reprehension of everything, especially Africa.
Glad he's still out there. had no idea Naipaul had died.
posted by aspersioncast at 12:41 AM on August 25, 2018
posted by aspersioncast at 12:41 AM on August 25, 2018
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If your Yorùbá is rusty, the diacritics are tone-- in this word, mid, low, and high. The Ṣ is like an English sh.
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