Prof. Wole Soyinka To Deliver 5th Council On Foreign Relations Lecture In Accra

Africa’s Nobel Laureate for literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka, is to deliver the first-anniversary lecture of the Council on Foreign Relations- Ghana in Accra this March.

He will be hosted by the Council.

Scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, 2020, the lecture will come of at the Accra International Conference Centre at 4.30 pm. It is on the topic, “AFRO-PESSIMISM AGAINST HORIZONS OF ABURI OPTIMISM,” and will be the fifth in the Distinguished Guest Lecture Series of the Council.

Prof. Soyinka is one of Africa’s most distinguished writers and the first African to be honoured with the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. he is also the author of 50 seminal books.

Previous Speakers on the Distinguished Guest Lecture Platform include Baroness Valerie

Amos, British politician, academic, diplomat and international public official; Dr.

Mohammed Ibn Chambas, Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel; Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinosa, the 73rd President of the UN General Assembly and His Excellency Jyrki Katainen former Vice-President of the European Union Commission responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness.

Whilst in Ghana, Prof. Wole Soyinka will be a Special Guest at a literary event co-hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations-Ghana to celebrate the 80th birthday of distinguished Ghanaian writer, Ama Atta Aidoo, at the British Council Hall on March 19, 2020.

He will, however, be the guest of the Council on Foreign Relations Ghana. The Council which was officially inaugurated on February 26, 2019, by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo is an independent, non-partisan, non-governmental think tank which focuses on international affairs and foreign policy issues.

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