Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has paid applauded the heroine Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, during an event at the prestigious Georgetown University in Washington, United States.
The teenager was kidnapped on February 19, 2018 alongside her schoolmates from their Government Science College at Dapchi, Yobe State.
Likening Leah to the late South African iconic human rights champion and president, Nelson Mandela, Soyinka stated: “We must celebrate the exception who said ‘no’ “as it reminded me of Mandela who refused conditional release.”
The poet said he could only recite the excerpts because he broke down the last time he attempted to read it.
Soyinka also did an epic takedown of a Georgetown professor’s claim that poverty and desperation were behind the Boko Haram insurgency.
He said: “It was ideological bordering on the metaphysical and we should not underestimate it. We are dealing with something much deeper.
[…] Read also: What Soyinka said about Leah Sharibu […]
Comments are closed.