Reading Wole Soyinka's 'Of Africa' in times of Boko Haram

From MsAfropolitan Thu May 15 2014, 23:07:42

As reckless forces of terror-driven religious fundamentalism ravage Nigeria we would be wise to remember the insights of the ancestors. Unfortunately, as Soyinka argues in his most recent book, Of Africa, Africa as we know it today, "remains the monumental fiction of European creativity" marked by a type of religiosity that is a "destabilising agent";...

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