Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts

Thursday, January 10, 2013

FANS AND ARTISTS GATHERED TO BID BISI KOMOLAFE FAREWELL




Tuesday, December 11, 2012

How Artists and Intellectuals Can be Instrumental in the Creation of Dictators – Soyinka





Many Nigerians will agree that the last thing the country needs right now is another dictator. Meanwhile, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has shown how the making of dictators can be aided by artists and intellectuals who, he said, are custodians of the people’s culture. Soyinka was speaking at a colloquium, which is part of the 2012 Port Harcourt Carnival (CARNIRIV 2012) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. He said every culture, if not guarded against abuse by politics, could breed dictatorship.

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