Wole Soyinka's Anti-Igbo drama, Harvard to post video on line.


The Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African and American Research in the United States has said that it will release the video of the lecture delivered by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, within a week.

 Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka
Some online media had quoted Soyinka as saying Igbo were politically naive while delivering a lecture titled, “‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies,” at the institution.
He was quoted as saying “The Igbo are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election, because they tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them; suffering as it were, from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain.”
However, Soyinka said in a statement on Tuesday that it was unfortunate that people could tell lies against him.
The playwright described those who believe the report as morons.

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