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...very broad and interdisciplinary, and so we look for candidates reflective of that breadth.” She added that the Institute invites scholars at different stages of their academic careers.This year’s fellows join a list of Institute alumni that includes 1986 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to be honored in literature, and current Thomas Professor of African and African American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Phyllis S. Taoua, a scholar of Francophone literature at the University of Arizona who said she plans to write her second book while a Du Bois fellow, said she found...
...Soyinka, who is a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, has also been a prominent political activist since he was imprisoned in 1967 after appealing in an article for a ceasefire in the Nigerian civil...
...said W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in his welcome speech, “If democracy in…the world’s most populous black nation has a voice and a face, they belong to Wole Soyinka...
Gordimer spoke of Soyinka as “something absolutely indispensable to the African continent.” She then read from her story, “The Ultimate Safari,” an account of flight from the Mozambique Civil War, narrated by an eleven-year-old. The title, Gordimer noted, was taken from a European travel advertisement—which, she mused, most likely had “a different kind of Safari” in mind...
After an introduction by Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton K. Anthony Appiah, Soyinka himself took the podium. Soyinka read “A Digression on the Purpose of Accident,” an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress he expects to publish next year...