Legendary playwright, dramatist and poet of world acclaim, Professor Wole Soyinka, is the guest on this weekend’s edition of African Voices Playmakers, CNN International’s 30-minute magazine programme sponsored by telecommunications company, Globacom.
The anchor of the programme, Larry Madowo, will take the large audience through an engaging time with the Nobel Laureate.
Soyinka will be sharing details of the values, the ideologies and the passion that formed the foundation of his enviable life and career.
In the edition ,which commemorates Soyinka’s 90th birthday, the writer will also recount the extraordinary activism which influenced his work and inspired a movie on his political incarceration in Nigeria planned for release this year.
Born Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka on July 13, 1934, he was awarded the Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1986 for his “wide cultural perspective and… poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence”.
He cut his teeth in literature as a student of the University College, Ibadan, now known as the University of Ibadan, and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
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Aside from the Nobel Prize for Literature, Soyinka was also awarded the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 1990; Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009; Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lifetime Achievement, 2012; and Europe Theatre Prize, Special Prize, 2017.
African Voices Playmakers will air at 8:30am on Saturday on DStv Channel 401.
Repeats will be broadcast the same Saturday at noon; Sunday at 4:30am and 7pm; and on Monday at 4am.
The same edition will be repeated on Saturday next week at 8:30am and 12 noon and on Sunday at 4:30am and 7pm.
