Kongi at 89: The Lion marches on

Emeritus professor Wole Soyinka clocked 89 last week, precisely on 13 July. The professor of Comparative literature and the first Black African to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature, is a polymath difficult to categorise and define.

This is due to his many sides, which lop intellect and activism together in a career of public engagement and academia that spans more than fifty years.