Tuesday, June 06, 2006

News at Eleven: In many ways, his book

is Femi Johnson's elegy, a memorial to this loyal and loving giant--his laughter as big as his appetite--who saved and protected Soyinka through his triumphs and disasters and who said of him, unforgettably, that "you can leave your heart with Wole and travel to Hong Kong. When you come back, it would still be beating." Kneading those words as a writer does, Soyinka turns them into a commandment "to keep the heart of a nation, of a people, beating, even after a demented dictator had ripped it out."

from The New York Review of Books: The Writer and the Tyrant

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