Situation in Nigeria has reached a point where you don’t believe that anybody is in charge – Soyinka

Prof. Wole Soyinka has described 2020 as the most challenging year as a result of the vicissitudes of problems.

The Nobel Laurette noted that the Nigerian situation was even worse as a result of the imperial nature of its leadership at socio-political and religious levels.

“With the turbulence that characterises year 2020, and as activities wind down, the mood has been repugnant and very negative. I don’t want to sound pessimistic but this is one of the most pessimistic years I have known in this nation and it wasn’t just because of COVID-19, no. Natural disasters had happened elsewhere but how have you managed to take such in their strides? Soyinka said while speaking at the Booksellers, where he did the presentation of his new book which took him 40 years to write, ‘Chronicles of the happiest people on earth.’

“Was calamity as a result of human negligence or as a result of malignant activities when people find themselves under the control of other beings which I am afraid what most Nigerians find themselves in, it is like you don’t know from where the blow would descend. That is not the way a nation should be and that is not the way the citizens should exist.

“Situation has reached a point where you are not very sure of where you are going and where you will end it. As I had said before, you don’t believe, in many instances, that anybody is in charge. That, really, it is a parlous condition for any nation. So, I am afraid it has not been a very good year for me generally.”

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