Wole Soyinka: Zitate auf Englisch
“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
Janheinz Jahn (trans. Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger) A History of Neo-African Literature (London: Faber, 1968) pp. 265-6.
Explaining, in Berlin in 1964, a criticism of the concept of négritude he had made at a conference in Kampala in 1962.
Kontext: I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
“Romance is the sweetening of the soul
With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.”
Quelle: The Lion and the Jewel
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
Quelle: The strong man syndrome https://www.thecable.ng/wole-soyinka-at-86/amp
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”
The Man Died (New York: Harper & Row, 1972) p. 13.
Wole Soyinka: Duncan Gardham - Mutallab: Again Soyinka Blames UK For Breeding Terrorists http://thewillnigeria.com/world/3592-Mutallab-Again-Soyinka-Blames-For-Breeding-Terrorists.html - TheWill, February 2, 2010</ref><ref>James Meikle - England is 'cesspit' breeding Islamists, says Soyinka http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/02/soyinka-england-cesspit-islamists - The Guardian, February 2, 2010
Death and the King's Horseman (1975); cited from Six Plays (London: Methuen, 1984) p. 189.
Sahara Reporters http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/crimes-buhari-wole-soyinka
