WOLE TO READ AFRICAN PLAYS ON BBC

Wole Soyinka will judge the 2010 BBC World Service African Drama competition.The highly respected Nigerian professor, writer, poet, playwright and Nobel Literature Laureate will be on the panel of judges at the BBC World Service’s 50th season of African radio drama BBC African performance launch. Listeners have until February 15, 2009 to enter their plays, which must be half an hour long when

SOYINKA AND MAATHAI TO ATTEND KENYAN HAY FESTIVAL

StoryMoja Hay Festival will have the privilege of hosting two Nobel Laureates Kenya’s Wangari Maathai and Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka. The Storymoja Hay Festival will run from July 31 to August 2 at the Impala grounds, Ngong Road. Storymoja is a local publishing company whose sole mission is getting ‘a book in every hand’.The festival will also play host to Malian prince Seckou Keita, bestselling

Kenyans to be guests at Wole Soyinka’s speech

The plans for a week-long festival dubbed the Julius Nyerere Intellectual Festival Week in Tanzania are finally complete. The festival, is set for April 13 to 17. Invited guests include delegates from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and South Africa. The list of invited guests is yet to be released. Professor Wole Soyinka is expected to deliver the Nyerere Annual Lecture. The organisers are expecting a