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CULTURE

Soyinka’s Theatre

July 15, 2024 • 1 min read

July 15, 2024

Our man of theatre now has one. Thanks to President Tinubu for naming the National Theatre after Soyinka.

It is a no brainer that Nigeria’s preeminent theatre genius who earned global eminence in that area should have the biggest icon named after him.

The Nobel citation refers to him as a writer who “fashions the drama of existence.”

We now have a shrine for such histrionics as Soyinka writes, and that makes him an inspiration to theatre.

He feeds the stage with his works of drama. Soyinka performs, and that makes him a man of stagecraft. He is therefore both an inspiration and act for theatre.

It is a combo of theory and praxis in one soul. Congratulations to the bard.