Sunday, July 13, 2014

Time flies when you're having fun

WS - that's Soyinka, not Shakespeare - b. July 13, 1934
Read his memoirs, delight in his plays, heed the essays, try his poetry, and, tell me - what are his novels like? 

4 comments:

  1. Sure glad that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka keeps writing. What are your thoughts on the man, his books, his look even? Spill, tell.

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  2. The source of the image is this blog post.

    The painting was created by ... (I'll find the name for you in a bit) and I first saw it (just two Soyinka faces) in the wonderful book Contemporary Nigerian Art in Lagos Private Collections: New Trees in an Old Forest. Next weekend, I'll be able to check in the book for the name of the artist.

    The blogger at North of Lagos where I found the digital image is Cara Titilayo Harshman and she took the photograph of the work which is usually displayed (on a marble wall?) at OYASAF - the private home and collection of Otunba Yemisi Adebola Shyllon, in Ikeja (Maryland) Lagos.

    That was a mouthful for attribution.

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    1. correction on OYASAF's name/title: Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation with a website at www.nigerianartoyasaf.org

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  3. Artist name: Diseye Tantua
    Likely date: 2008

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