I respect this man a lot, but it seems old age is beginning to catch up with him, given some of his recent utterances, such as this latest bombshell, in which he appears to be calling for foreign military intervention to curb the Boko Haram menace in Nigeria.
It seems the esteemed prof has not spent time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia, to see where such thinking gets you.
United Nations — On the International Day of Peace, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka visited the United Nations - and called for armed intervention against the terrorist group Boko Haram in his home country of Nigeria.
"This is a violent organisation," Soyika told IPS. "What do you do with them? I am sorry, but you must fight them.
"After his speech, Soyinka spoke to IPS about the situation in his native Nigeria, where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is responsible for thousands of deaths and the bombings of several churches in Nigeria in recent years. The group seeks to establish sharia law in the country. Their presence is particularly strong in the north of the country.
"We have an organisation which closes down schools, shoots faculty teachers, knocks out children and turns most of the north into an educational wasteland. How can we reach the children there? We must first get rid of Boko Haram," Soyinka lashed out.
"We have a contradiction," he acknowledged. "How do we get rid of Boko Haram? Violence must become involved. That is a dilemma."
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