Wole Soyinka: “Putin gives in to mass slavery”

Ihe spent years in prison in the name of his convictions, he fought and continues to do so against dictatorships of all kinds, and lately against the crimes perpetrated by religious extremists (Boko Haram) in his native country, Nigeria . Wole Soyinka is a warrior of free expression and justice. His latest novel published in English, and in the process of being translated into French, is a satire on power in all its forms. On the occasion of the film cycle “Tigritudes” – which owes its title to one of his famous replies to the champions of Negritude “The Tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he leaps on his prey and devours it” -, Wole Soyinka is again in France, at the invitation of a fellow Russian writer, Sergei Kuznetsov, in the International Academy…