For decades, Prof. Wole Soyinka has kept a secret to himself, his grade when he left University College, Ibadan.
But
yesterday, the Nobel Laureate disclosed that contrary to insinuations,
he graduated with a Second Class Upper and not Third Class as widely
believed.
Soyinka broke his silence when he hosted secondary
school students from across the country who were in Abeokuta, Ogun State
to take part in this year’s “Open Doors Series” project, an
international cultural exchange programme to mark his 79th birthday.
According
to Soyinka, he had kept silent on the matter over the years, but
decided to open up for the sake of the children as mark of respect for
them. The event, tagged: “Memoirs of our future,” was organized by a
Lagos-based multimedia company, Zmirage and the state government.
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