Journalist Honours Soyinka's Invite Fifty Two Years Later.

A Nigerian journalist has ultimately honoured an invitation to satisfy Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, after 52 years of ready. Oloye alabi, a veteran writer who has also worked being a press secretary for 4 nation governors, met prof soyinka on wednesday at his house in ogun country, nigerian media stated.

He stated he had been invited because from a letter he wrote to then president yakubu gowon criticising this government for imprisoning prof Soyinka. He introduced that he had written another letter to the laureate, for the duration of his two years in jail, to reveal solidarity.

In appreciation, the professor should invited him soon after he changed into launched from prison. He said even as he first of all saved the appointment, he become advised the professor were away.

“nowadays, fifty two years after, it has pleased god that i honour the kind invitation extended to me in 1969 at the same time as i was a 19-year-vintage student of african church grammar college, apata ganga, ibadan, by using prof (then mr) wole soyinka," the the guardian newspaper fees him as announcing.