“Samuel Etoo, I was poor when I met my rich wife. When I met my wife, I was still an amateur footballer in France. Nantes refused to take me, but my wife always believed in me. I had my little Cameroonian accent; she was in charge of a hairdresser in Nantes.

Today, she is the wife of the most titled footballer on the African continent, and I a…Read More

Professor Wole Soyinka did not refuse the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, nor did he criticize the Nobel Committee for awarding it to him as the first African laureate. In fact, his Nobel acceptance speech, “This Past Must Address Its Present”, was a powerful criticism of apartheid and racial segregation in South Africa

Soyinka is widely…Read More