Nigerian - Dramatist | July 13, 1934 -
African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
Wole Soyinka
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In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.
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If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.
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Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
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The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings.
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England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.
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We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.
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I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'
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When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth. I don't think I've ever written one play as an abstract piece, as a literary piece, floating in the air somewhere, to be flushed out later on.
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Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
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I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.
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One has to confront history honestly.
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