Nigeria: Soyinka Blames Collapse of Cultural Values On Dictatorship

11 December 2012

Port Harcourt — Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Monday, linked the collapse of cultural values in the country to the emergence of political dictatorship.

Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at a colloquium for this year's Rivers State carnival, CANIRIV, Soyinka charged artists and intellectuals to do more to sustain the country's cultural values.

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