Nobel Prize winning playwright and activist WOLE SOYINKA (Wall - Shoy-enka) talks with Terry about his newest book "The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis." It is published by Oxford University Press. It's been nearly a year since the Nigerian military government executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. The killing sparked international protests that today has left Nigeria politically isolated. The events that led up to the execution in November 1995 mark Nigeria's decline from a thriving post-colonial state to its present military dictatorship. SOYINKA was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Born in Nigeria, an out-spoken proponent for democracies, lives in exile dividing his time between London and Cambridge, Ma.
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