Nigeria Is Breeding A Generation Of Illiterates And Ignoramuses - Prof. Wole Soyinka

My first question is for the Nobel Prize-winning

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essor Alicia Inca, now a prophet boyfriend, many young people use this vision of a children's initiative. You have more than what people know. I know your modesty about some of the things you've done, but I wish you'd do it. tell us more about this initiative tell us more about what you have done and what you believe in regarding this particular initiative. I have always believed that a child in Italy is creative because a child lacks mission that honestly ceases without any kind of He is able to articulate very often not in our language or simply in a language that is accessible to other children and I find that children They are extremely observant, some of them become very argumentative.

I was told it was when I was a kid, but not that. It doesn't matter if you are a silent observer or not, the important thing is to get out of that child, whether the child has seen and allowed that child to give him tools of expression to articulate in whatever form that is the medium of words, images or even movement and then, in principle, the child is more creative, all of us are more creative when we are children and because there are so many lies in adult society, no, I wrote, as you know, a series of books called The Republic of Liars one two three four hundred.

When speaking of Nigeria before a child is corrupted by the lies of adults, it is very important that we remember that purity of vision that exists in a child as a rebuke to adult society and a reminder of how adult society corrupts vision of the child and So when we started working on various things and she, by the way, innovated, in fact, that's how, as you may have learned, I met her for the first time and she was interested in organizing art competitions in association with an organization in Italy. I am very impressed after how it came about, she was an engineer, something like that, yes, then what we do in art in the artistic world, she is very good at what she did and little by little, for some reason, administrative reasons, she began to double it and the usual nyjah Someone mention a Durham factor.

I don't like the expression, but it's a sincere expression, let's be honest with ourselves, it's there and when that seemed to have difficulties, it's just my chance, you say, okay, if it collapses, it doesn't matter. transform it to the vision of the chair that's how, but originally it's what she was doing on that platform on the road of the ban to say yes, now let me use mine, I'll save my own perspectives and I'll tell this to Turin and so on. we could. for children to look at adult society I really tell us if they really think about us but artistically politically sometimes and as I said in images Noster allows us to transform ourselves one of the things I was careful to do was emphasize to them that it doesn't It doesn't have to be negative.

I said be honest because the instinct would be to say to show how they can dismiss a boring society. No, I say that directly, as it simply tells us exactly what you see. Positive negative neutral. You know, just tell us and I think they were very, very honest, they had a very good mix. I give them interesting titles as you know, just to have fun like sisi eko, yes, you see a quad 50 mascara or reality, remind us that the fact had legs, thank you, so sister, a quad 50, aging gracefully. or not social pancake, which is one of the most joyful but at the same time very serious, but the one I enjoyed the most, which is largely the obsession with comments with me long before Buhari dreamed of fighting corruption. really obsessed with what corruption was doing to society and that is why from very early on I put a thousand yes thousand faces of corruption that this exercise has been the most instructive and in fact the efcc adopted it and they were going to tour it throughout the country unfortunately I think Magoo was also busy with his new setup, he had no change left to provide a vehicle to go on tour anyway, let him make his own, the kids will make their own little labels to underline what palaka said, which very often you just have to ignore the government and do your thing and the juries outside are really wonderful for courage, but somehow when they come in here they fill up on gas, we become a

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of being the first to comment on security from Internet. abuse of God mohamad Christ Buddha serasa all combined Internet as long as they are the first to comment and Julie on topics that they ignore totally ignorant can talk about any topic in the world and it all comes down to your father is a good that does not No matter where the topic be rocket science and that's why we're building an illiterate

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of ignorant people that I really enjoy the arrogance of ignorance and when you talk about education I really feel it to my bones because I get text messages. of the new generation, what I call, are the first to comment on generations and I can't believe that some of these are college students.

I'll end with a story and then end with a silver lining to convey something I want to make sure of. at least say something positive to young Nigerians but first a very short story of your youth and of course they get it all the time on the internet. They count how many times the father of the family has spoken or criticized the government, how many times Wally Shankar has spoken, etc. they actually tabulated that they themselves do nothing, they know the way Diwali shows Inca currently they march on Astro rock and I have told him time and time again that the only tools you have and a match on Astro walk you will get I have a chair of electric wheels with air conditioning and a mini refrigerator and you will push, in addition to the electric power you will be ready to push because I know that the electricity in that search will fail even before we reach Asoka, so essaouira I said why not Don't you mobilize, it is time to carry banners, let's give one of those phrases, you will see everything in my next edition of interventions, but I will let you share, let me see the story with you and there you can read it. the book I said get together complain grumble grumble minor this I can't do JD's meant for this our conference hasn't spoken I said guys doing other things you why do you go out with a sign I said carry signs that say food get boo Harrogate ah said try we'll be arrested welcoming as if there were foreigners there he and I will go hand in hand we will come and rescue you but at least you go first it's time for you to cut off your feet, take off the bomb and stop writing rubbish on the internet about things you don't understand , so to be fair to him, you said, well, you know, I'm a Youth Service Corps dummy and I'm not allowed to be a dad, so I said, well, okay, I said, but Wait a minute, that's your car, right?

He said yes, worried about stickers, put stickers on your car and by the way, we are very imitative people, that's another characteristic of us, someone does something, someone else will do it until now, you know? where all the Legos vehicles of your generation will be adorned with real problems, demand real problems, like you've been talking about, we said, but with

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its, they will arrest you, like I just told you, arrest, you say you know these police. They are useless, they will destroy my car, that was his response to my suggestion about a formal protest in which you could participate.

I'm afraid it's a story of today's Nigerian and especially a certain generation of my Juran, yes, that's right, someone said I did mean that. for us as a wasted generation simply because we were full of dreams, we were full of energy, we were ready to take any risk at that time, but the leaders wasted the enthusiasm and someone asked me what about the next generation, what do I call them and not staff. The answer to the question is do I think that now the name I will give to our generation is the Lost Generation, but after that a new generation has come, to this day I don't know exactly what to call them and they are supposed to never be missing. words, but I've tried and I've tried and I've tried, I just don't know how to describe this current generation beyond the Internet trolls, the Internet troll generation that feeds off the Internet, they kick you, they get a orgasm and they want to be the first to comment, that is the ambition of this generation we are talking about, it is time for us to speak frankly among ourselves and this is what has interested me or a lot of the young people I try to reach. attend every This event because I think maybe all generations beyond the youngest are lost, unless of course we stand up and decide that we are going to do things for ourselves, we are going to take back this nation now in the positive side when I decided to build. my sanctuary in the forest knowing that everything was not working I bought a second hand diesel I bought it from a friend then I asked someone to dig a hole for the ball until today I am using my own water in this several decades ago and of course Even I have dedicated myself to solar energy now.

I don't expect this generation to be able to afford it. I mean, you're unemployed. I'm sure I can't even afford a small generator over more solar power, but you can insist on those who control it. the resources of this nation provide that for you, yes, I agree, we can gather, you can plant, like I did with the trees, yes, I was going to build a house. I want to be self-sufficient, including food export, so my entire territory is surrounded by cashew nuts. because I said it was the only thing I could think of for the market I'm not a farmer I don't have green fingers everything I grow is bird flu eat it in any case I'm not there all the time I have very good space on the land well the important thing is this .

I share a certain spirit when I started building a place that I wanted to become absolutely self-sufficient and I even planted some wild mint that I was going to dry and sell. People like mint in their drinks, these are little things you can do, well some people came, they came to clear the weeds, they saw what they meant and they thought it was weeds and they destroyed it, but what I want to convey to you It was at least me. I've thought about the possibility and if I had the skills I probably would have been a multi-millionaire farmer today, so it's not like you have to be a farmer.

I'm not a farmer, obviously, I wasn't meant to be a father. since it is an idea of ​​the possibility of being self-sufficient, that is all and I believe that if each and every one of you also started from there, as far as possible I will be self-sufficient, which means that I can also come with others to the company. Tears and then demand from the government what my task is. Do what is necessary. That is my positive message for you today. Thank you so much.