BBC - Reith Lectures 2004
BBC - Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2004 - Climate of Fear
BBC invites an annual speaker to talk about any topic they want. The 2004 speaker is Wole Soyinka, his lecture is: The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka.
Nobel Laureate, playwright, poet and political activist, was born on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, Western Nigeria, and lived with his family in the Aké quarter of the city. At that time, his homeland was still a British dependency. His father was the headmaster of an Anglican primary school, and his mother, whose nickname was "Wild Christian," was a shop owner and teacher. In 1981, Soyinka published Aké, a memoir about his youth, which James Olney of the New York Times described as "a classic of childhood memoirs wherever and whenever produced."
BBC invites an annual speaker to talk about any topic they want. The 2004 speaker is Wole Soyinka, his lecture is: The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka.
Nobel Laureate, playwright, poet and political activist, was born on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, Western Nigeria, and lived with his family in the Aké quarter of the city. At that time, his homeland was still a British dependency. His father was the headmaster of an Anglican primary school, and his mother, whose nickname was "Wild Christian," was a shop owner and teacher. In 1981, Soyinka published Aké, a memoir about his youth, which James Olney of the New York Times described as "a classic of childhood memoirs wherever and whenever produced."
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