President of the prestigious Nigeria Academy of Letters, and renowned playwright, Professor Olu Obafemi Tuesday, regretted that Nigeria’s literacy level and reading culture was ‘‘dismally poor’’ even after 58 years of the nation’s independence. To salvage the situation, he advocated that
He is unpredictable and dramatic in more ways than one. A poet and a playwright. A linguistic stylist and a word juggler per excellence. At the height of his literary sojourn, he won for Africa as the first writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Before then, he had been through […]