Awoonor killers are cowards -Soyinka September 27, 2013by Chux Ohai Leave a Comment Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Friday condemned last Saturday’s terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, which led to the death of prominent Ghanaian writer and diplomat, Prof. Kofi Awoonor, and no fewer than 67 others. In a meeting with journalists at the Freedom Park on Broad Street, Lagos, he described those who led the assault on the mall that claimed Awoonor’s life, as well as the lives of scores of other victims, as “human aberrations and carriers of a lethal virus that corrupts the human soul and spirit.” Soyinka added, “As for their claims to faith, they invoke divine authority solely as a hypocritical cover for innate psychopathic tendencies. Their deeds and utterances profane the very name of God or Allah.” The literary icon, who said he was supposed to be in Nairobi for the same festival that Awoonor attended, noted that not since the apartheid era had Africa been plunged into a crisis of the same magnitude as foisted by Islamic insurgents. “A murdering minority pronounce themselves a superior class of beings to all others; assume powers to decide the mode of existence of others, of association; decide who shall live and who shall die, who shall shake hands with whom even as daily colleagues, who shall dictate and who shall submit,” he said.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:29:51 +0000
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