Monday, February 25, 2008
02/22/2008
Interpretation by dali48
Soyinka's plays range from comedy to tragedy and from political satire to absurdist theater. He combines influences from Western traditions with African myths, legends and folklore, as well as techniques such as singing and drumming ... (Pegasus Author's Calendar)
A prophet has honor except in his own house. Wise men have been declared mad! ... (from The Lion and the Jewel)
He who has much to give is fulfilled only in complete solitude ... American and British writers, including Lilian Hellman and Robert Lowell, protested to the Nigerian government and Soyinka was released ... The Man Died (1972) describes his time in prison. The book was banned in Nigeria. Madmen And Specialists, written in 1970, is Soyinka's most pessimistic play. It was about the inhumanity of man and the pervasive corruption in the power structures... Like the writer and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995), Soyinka criticized the corruption that the oil industry had brought to Nigeria. Saro-Wiwa was hanged despite international protests... He was one of the most vocal critics of the concept of Negritude, which is associated with Leopold Senghor, the writer and former president of Senegal... Soyinka defends the idea that the West should make reparations for crimes committed against the African people ... Some people believe that the Nobel Prize makes you bulletproof. "I never had that illusion," Soyinka once said ... (P.A.C.)
He (Mugabe) is one of those dictators who wants to die in office and will suppress all dissenting views in the cruelest way possible - by killing his opponents, torturing them and burning down their houses ... (Soyinka in a CNN interview, 2001)
Friday, February 22, 2008
10/28/2000
Interpretation by dali48
The basic insight will free man from his madness and blindness, from his greed and hatred, because all these vices are the root cause of the situation of suffering ... (Meier / Khoury)
Man lives in a disastrous situation, he suffers under the dominance of evil! - We can no longer close our eyes to the immense social and environmental problems that we are confronted with on this planet! ... (R. Aitken)
Noah survived and became the new progenitor ... The earth becomes explosive! - In 1980 the volcano St. Helens in the US state of Washington. Around 3 of the 500 volcanoes are active every month (see e.g. Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, 2010 etc. - d.48). The earth's axis tilts. The forces that come into effect exceed our imagination! ... (K. Allgeier)
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