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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: "Charlie Rose, Inc."
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000GAKRW0
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wole Soyinka interviewed by David Remnick segment, May 14, 2008

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Charlie Rose with Mike Allen & Judy Woodruff; Wole Soyinka and David Remnick; Jeremy Allaire & Walter Mossberg (April 26, 2006) (DVD)

Remnick, the New Yorker editor is excellent in this interview with Soyinka. Soyinka who speaks in an authoratative resonant voice and has the dignified look of a Nobel Laureate is at the outset excellent in reply. He tells of his childhood education in a British school in pre- Independence Nigeria. He tells of the expectations he and his friends had when Nigeria became independent in 1960. He speaks about the Yoruba education and culture. The problems begin when Remnick asks him questions about contemporary African problems. Remnick seems more disturbed by Darfur than Soyinka is. Soyinka makes the ridiculous suggestion that the problem should somehow be handled on a pan- African level. He shows no moral urgency and outrage about the genocide being perpetrated in Darfur by the Islamic Janjaweed with the help of the Sudanese Government. Instead he chips in a pro forma intellectual condemnation of the U.S. policy in Iraq. He does however to his credit speak about the possibilities afforded by life in America. Soyinka is a courageous person who was jailed by Nigerian dictator Gowon for his opposition to the Biafra War. Soyinka also is critical of the present Nigerian ( 2006) regime and of the U.S. not being more demanding of it.
It would have been nice to have heard him read from some of his work. But that is not in the segment.