Professor Wole soyinka, africa's first nobel laurette will be 80 in july 2014 and the pirates confraternity have indicated interest in celebrating the milestone with him.
According to Ide Owodiong-Idemeko stated that this year's celebration will be special and symbolic in many respects.
A website was formally launched to commemorate the event, for the wole soyinka annual lecture series sponsored and organised by the national association of seadogs [pirates confraternity].
The Lecture Series, which is an annual event, holds in the
month of July and is aimed at promoting good governance, social justice and the
advancement of democratic ideals in Nigeria and beyond. Since its inception,
lectures have been held in three continents around the world (Africa, Europe
and North America).
According
to him, this year’s lecture which is the 17th in the Series is significant and
symbolic in many respects. It coincides with Prof Wole Soyinka’s 80th birthday
and the centenary of Nigeria’s existence as a country. The Lecture with the
theme “This House Must Not Fall -Renegotiating Nigeria’s Social Contract after
100 Years of Nationhood”is scheduled to hold on Friday July 11, 2014 at the
Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State at 10:00am. The lecturewill be delivered by two great and
inspiring Nigerians, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic
Diocese of Sokoto and Dr. Oby Ezekwesili of the Africa Economic Development
Policy Initiative (AEDPI), Open Society Foundation and co-founder of
Transparency International .
You can read more at www.vanguardngr.com
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