Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka said technology is creating new generations of illiterates in Nigerian society.


Soyinka stated this at the CANEX Live Theatre closing ceremony of the 3rd Intra-African Trade Fair, IATF 2023, in Cairo on Friday.


The fair was convened by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the African Union and AfCFTA.

The Nobel laureate said, “Simultaneously, it’s a very large subject, and we can go on for the next seminars over the next few weeks over this issue. I want us to understand that, on the other hand, there’s a new culture taking place about which we have to be very careful; I call it the Internet culture.

“This is a marvelous technology; this is a liberating technology. The so-called Arab Spring, for instance, among many movements, was able to take life and be successful where they’ve been utilising that culture of instant communication; these are positive.

“However, as a new, tyrannical, insolent, and abusive culture, the culture of submental humanity in our midst, which you can give the rough name of the new Internet culture, in which real creativity is being downgraded, even despised for cheap, populist, nasty, subversive, humanly subversive culture.”

Soyinka further said, “It’s creating new generations of the illiterate, who believe it’s up to them that it’s sort of noble, progressive, and populist to despise what I call the real meaningful culture that improves the mind of humanity, expands our horizons, offers numerous alternatives or interpretations of phenomena, et cetera, and leads to a new construct of a genuine new being.

“Now we have to watch this network-facilitated abuse of culture. I speak very specifically to my society, especially the Nigerian society, the greatest abusers of that kind of culture, where you have the real degradation of the real meaning of culture, facilitated by Internet technology.

“So that’s why I said it’s a large subject, which we must not trivialise. We shouldn’t take the easy way out. We shouldn’t go on the axial, black and white, and so on. It’s a work in progress, but we must not let the barbarians get away with this new project,” he said.

they are unlettered and uncultured .

However, as a new, tyrannical, insolent, and abusive culture, the culture of submental humanity in our midst.

It would appear that a record discharge of toxic sludge from our notorious smut factory is currently clogging the streets and sewers of the Republic of Liars.

aariwa:
Wole Soyinka, the unofficial spokesman to APC and bola Tinubu, the man that started cultism in Nigerian universities in 1977 that not only killed but continues to kill thousands of youths in our universities. He never condemns bad leadership from corrupt elites but always quick to condemn the youths for reacting to bad leadership which had denied them the basic things their peers in other countries are enjoying

Throwback:


You are one of the illiterates he is referring to.

He has said repeatedly that he created a confraternity and not a secret cult.

Till today, there are fraternities in the US tertiary education who did not adopt armed robbery or physical assault or murder as their defining identity.

You even said he started cultism in 1977?

You are certainly an illiterate if you think Wole Soyinka was an undergraduate student in 1977.

You have embrace misinformation on the internet and therefore become an internet created illiterate.

FreeStuffsNG:
“So that’s why I said it’s a large subject, which we must not trivialise. We shouldn’t take the easy way out. We shouldn’t go on the axial, black and white, and so on. It’s a work in progress, but we must not let the barbarians get away with this new project,” he said.

“However, as a new, tyrannical, insolent, and abusive culture, the culture of submental humanity in our midst, which you can give the rough name of the new Internet culture, in which real creativity is being downgraded, even despised for cheap, populist, nasty, subversive, humanly subversive culture.”

Like Chinaza who joined other members of the outlawed IPOB group to burn down Lagos in 2020 and later switched to become the insolent, violent, uncouth LP mob.

FreeStuffsNG:
“So that’s why I said it’s a large subject, which we must not trivialise. We shouldn’t take the easy way out. We shouldn’t go on the axial, black and white, and so on. It’s a work in progress, but we must not let the barbarians get away with this new project,” he said.

“However, as a new, tyrannical, insolent, and abusive culture, the culture of submental humanity in our midst, which you can give the rough name of the new Internet culture, in which real creativity is being downgraded, even despised for cheap, populist, nasty, subversive, humanly subversive culture.”

Like Chinaza who joined other members of the outlawed IPOB group to burn down Lagos in 2020 and later switched to become the insolent, violent, uncouth LP mob.

Raskimonojendor:
The great man. The same youths he was referring to are the ones that believed Buhari had been cloned and that the Chancellor of Germany is same as a VC of a university.

Throwback:


You are one of the illiterates he is referring to.

He has said repeatedly that he created a confraternity and not a secret cult.

Till today, there are fraternities in the US tertiary education who did not adopt armed robbery or physical assault or murder as their defining identity.

You even said he started cultism in 1977?

You are certainly an illiterate if you think Wole Soyinka was an undergraduate student in 1977.

You have embrace misinformation on the internet and therefore become an internet created illiterate.

Ttalk:
I am wondering the same as well.

You see them present their point on social media and you feel like throwing up.

They have replaced logical thinking with insult and abuse. There's no longer educative discussion that can benefit the society apart from gbas gbos yin find everywhere.

Even in the entertainment circle, their contents are so shallow. Music lyrics are hogwash and stale.

Something bad is happening to Nigerian youth

Omobude244:

go through the first 5 comments here and u will know the man is right

Ttalk:


I tell you. There are many of those Obidient moniker that I don't read their post, I just waka pass because they have been programmed to vomit rubbish