Members of Pyrates Confraternity wearing wigs
and fake beards march in honour of Nigerian
foundation member and Nobel Prize for Literature
winner Wole Soyinka. A lecture took place to
celebrate Soyinka's 80th birthday last Friday. The
lecture was organised by the National Association
of Seadogs, also known as the Pyrates
Confraternity, founded in 1952 by the writer and
six other members of the University College of
Ibadan. Presently, the Pyrates Confraternity
philosophy includes fighting "against convention",
"against tribalism", "for humanistic ideals" and
"for comradeship and chivalry".