He also commented on several other areas of life in Nigeria including the BBC documentary on TB Joshua and the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel among other issues. Media languageThe world-acclaimed playwright expressed great pain with the way language is deployed by some news writers. Letting the extremists get away with murder – figuratively – only escalates to the real thing – murder in the physical, and with impunity.” Soyinka said. She dared to make and disseminate a video that condemned the open lynching of Deborah Samuel! Soyinka said the news medium, “burst on the media scene with a finely tuned sense of history in the making.

Source: Punch March 01, 2024 09:58 UTC