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.
posted by Mickiann (3 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
Neat! I'm glad Ṣóyínká is enjoying his eighties. And it's great to see all the diacritics in the names.

If your Yorùbá is rusty, the diacritics are tone-- in this word, mid, low, and high. The Ṣ is like an English sh.
posted by zompist at 9:37 PM on August 24, 2018 [1 favorite]


Glad he's still out there. had no idea Naipaul had died.
posted by aspersioncast at 12:41 AM on August 25, 2018


V. S. Naipaul obit thread
posted by adamvasco at 9:59 AM on August 30, 2018


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