Why listen to Wole Soyinka and the thinkers of the continent?

Wole Soyinka © DR

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Why listen to Wole Soyinka? The Nigerian Nobel Prize for Literature calls on African leaders for a radical change of direction, in an open letter co-signed with the greatest thinkers on the continent ...

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Emission around the open letter: “ African continent and coronavirus it is time to act ” addressed by a group of eminent English-speaking and French-speaking thinkers of the continent and the diaspora to African leaders signed by Wole Soyinka (winner of the Nobel Prize of literature in 1986 Nigerian writer and director, (interview by telephone and exclusively) and initiated by Mahamadou Lamine Sagna (Senegalese sociologist) live by telephone from Lagos in Nigeria where he is confined and Lionel Zevounoulecturer in public law at the University of Nanterre. They share their research, their work and their common reflections for a real awareness of the social realities of the continent and ways to make them evolve.

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