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Some of the posters are reminders of the august figures that the Institute has hosted. Particularly memorable are Nigerian Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka??€™s many lectures at Harvard (including a series with fellow Nobel laureate Toni Morrison) and a discussion on jazz and American culture featuring documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Institute Director and Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates...
Speakers throughout the evening honored Soyinka??€™s ongoing human rights work as inseparable from his artistic achievements...
Gates, who hosted the event, added that he could imagine no celebration of Soyinka??€™s life more appropriate than “a feast of words—words created by some of his favorite writers, who also happen to be Nobel Laureates...
...wasn’t for Soyinka??€™s influence, Gates says he wouldn’t be a professor today...
...Soyinka??€™s activism has resulted more than once in his arrest and imprisonment. After the outbreak of civil war in Nigeria in 1967, Soyinka tried to negotiate a cease-fire with the Ibo secessionists. The government accused him of conspiring with the rebels and detained him, without trial, at the notorious Kaduna prison in northern Nigeria where he spent two years in solitary confinement...