This weekend’s edition of African Voices Playmakers, a 30-minute magazine programme on CNN International supported by the telecom giant Globacom, features renowned playwright, dramatist, and poet Professor Wole Soyinka as guest.
The anchor of the show, Larry Madowo, will lead the audience on an interesting journey with the Nobel Laureate as he shares the principles, beliefs, and drive that shaped his remarkable life and career.
The respected author will also talk about the remarkable activism that shaped his writing and served as the basis for a film this year about his political imprisonment in Nigeria in the edition of the programme that marks his 90th birthday.
Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka, born on July 13, 1934, was recognised as the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature for his poetic overtones and wide cultural perspective fashioning the drama of existence.
Soyinka began his literary career as a student at University College, Ibadan, now the University of Ibadan and later at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
Soyinka received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 1990, the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012, and the Europe Theatre Prize, Special Prize in 2017 in addition to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
African Voices Playmakers will be shown at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday on DSTV Channel 401. Repeats will be broadcast Saturday at noon, Sunday at 4.30 a.m. and 7.00 p.m., and Monday at 4.00 a.m. The same edition will be repeated on Saturday at 8.30 a.m. and 12 noon and Sunday at 4.30 a.m. and 7.00 p.m.