Wole Soyinka who spoke on Hard Talk, a BBC programme, stated that his generation has failed Nigerians as the  dreams people of his generation had about the country had not materialised.Wole Soyinka gave the above response when he was asked by anchor of the programme, Zeinab Badawi “Has your generation of older Nigerians failed the people?” The Nobel laureate said; 

“Yes, I believe so. I compare today with dreams and aspirations we had when we all rushed home after studies abroad. We considered ourselves the renaissance people that were going to lift the continent to world standards, competitors anywhere. It hasn’t happened.”

Asked to comment about the 2019 presidential election, he said, “The 2019 election is one of the most depressing elections we’ve been through. Talking for myself, it wasn’t possible for me to make a choice for the simple reason that both candidates (President Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar) had histories – one immediate, one past – which made one look for alternatives.”


https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/24/my-generation-has-failed-nigerians-wole-soyinka/

thank God u are part of the generation olodo generation

Yeah! When supposed well read and exposed fellas like you openly and defiantly go for a dullard cum tyrannt that have no requisite educational qualifications but is proposing to build & name a Univ.after himself in order to massage his ego.

Wiseandtrue:
Talk talk talk, after talk Wole Soyinka will drink a few bottles of liquor then goes back to sleep

That all he has to offer!!!

Shey na talk we go eat

Has any of his talk bring out any effective change in Nigeria

I think not!

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I hope Tinubu will not sell Soyinka to the Sahel Region? The Igbos are watching.

This one touch me

Yes. That is blatant true. Any man above 70 should not be allowed to govern Nigerians at any level again

Good but what is the solution?

Your generation failed Nigeria greatly, but the greater blame goes to the younger generations that keep voting them in.

The problem with Nigeria is those that have power do not have ideas, and those that have ideas do not have power.

He should have worded it differently. “Yes, WE have.”

“Yes, I believe so” is not strong enough.
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They failed us and now they are still our problem. Why all of una generation no die sef

this one no go shut up, na to dey yan dust upandan

Yes sir in many ways.
Your generation is full of self centered nepotistic corrupt people who are interested in milking nigeria dry. They set the pace for everything we see in nigeria today

Yes that is the fact...

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OP, this is WRONG. You've just quoted Soyinka out of context. I just read the said Interview; all you have done was leaving out a large portion of the Interview. Be a honest man now and publish the Interview verbatim! Consider this a Challenge - you may win a Medal for Honesty yet.

Especially that man they call "Ebora owu".

Wiseandtrue:
Talk talk talk, after talk Wole Soyinka will drink a few bottles of liquor then goes back to sleep

That all he has to offer!!!

Shey na talk we go eat

Has any of his talk bring out any effective change in Nigeria

I think not!

Lol nobody sends anyone

To make things work in Nigeria, we have to kill all their generations

Chinua Achebe was that man that talked and yet acted as well

RIP sir

..and it's looking like the current generation is about to fail themselves and the next generation too. I have never seen a set of 'yoots' so self-destructive, ignorant and foolish like ones we currently have.

We still have a few sound minds though, but the ratio of the idiotic ones to the sound ones is like 4:1

The selfish and greedy generation

It was Buhari who failed Nigeria

A man who truncated democracy in the 80s

Rewarded for derailing the country in 2015

Put the country in recession in 2016

Now it's glaring that it's survival of the fittest

Emmerlee:
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Why?

jidamsel43:
Yes. That is blatant true. Any man above 70 should not be allowed to govern Nigerians at any level again

70 is way too high

Yeah...
They failed wella.....

Funny enough my generation still prefer yours....

They keep bringing dem from creeks and villages to rule instead of allowing them to rest already....

The saying "youths are leaders of tomorrow" is very far from our dictionary....

your afonja generation failed Nigeria...... by betrayal