We may never have heard about Wole Soyinka if he had
succeeded in killing himself with his father’s gun. It was a
beautiful humble life for Wole and his father years back.
They would go for hunting in the bush to kill squirrels,
the wild pigeon and occasional rabbit.

Trust young boys
who are curious to experiment with toys.
He had picked the gun one day and he started playing
with it and when he pulled the trigger it just exploded,
missing him by whiskers.

Wole who turned 80th said
His mother was not that excited with his bravery and
sometimes cunning traits as a child because she believed
that his overconfidence would harm him in the journey
of life.

It didn’t take time for this overconfidence to put him in
dire danger of his life years later, when he became a
man who wouldn’t tolerate bad governance.

He said about schooldays when he was a 10 year boy
with scholarship, “Those school mates of mine, they
were bullies. They were terrifying because they looked
big. Some of them, I am sure, had children already.
Some had moustaches and so they shaved every
morning.

“Whenever they turned on me, being really small, the
bullying got really intense because these big boys could
not stand the idea that this rondo (small) boy was sitting
while others were standing.
“They couldn’t stand it. They intensified the bullying,
which made me even more aggressive.”


www.ireporterstv.co/how-i-almost-killed-myself-at-10-with-a-gun-wole-soyinka/

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That wasn't his destined time. If it were, his skull wouldn't have been missed.