The Committee For Relevant Art (CORA) has
declared 2014 ‘The Soyinka Year’ and proclaimed the theme of this year’s
edition of the Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) as Freedom &The
Word.
CORA asserts that these two go well together: Soyinka has worked towards
the unshackling of our freedom of expression for all these years and in
the year of the 25th anniversary of the Fall of The Berlin Wall; 20th
anniversary of South Africa’s democracy and the 15th year of Nigeria’s
end to military rule, it is fitting to honour a landmark birthday of a
man whose life-long career irrepressibly dotes on concern about human
Freedom(s) with a year-long programme that interrogates our quest for
freedom, especially through the letters.
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