This legend is a phenomenal, endowed with the gift of longevity, sound health and mind, outlived his generation and is an inspiration to the Gen Zs! Adorable! Respect!
There is hope for mankind if it is possible for a 90-year-old specimen to be like this! The man is not hard of hearing! He is still cognitive and coherent! Walks unaided and uses a laptop without glasses! Some folks half his age have lost these capabilities! Larry, pls let us know his secret herbal drink!
2:18 “ I enjoy solitude a lot, I do, but I think secretly, I long for company and that’s why I accumulate all these” As one, I know that most loners, introverts & people with high levels of reservation will rather chew a jean jacket than admit this. This is an honest one!
To be blessed really is to attain an age such as 90, still with a straight back while walking in addition to making a lot of traveling both locally, nationally and internationally. Oh yes indeed, for a younger one, to not wish to be like you sir must definitely be a craziness. Bless your creator and am wishing you more pleasant days ahead in your life journey. Props sir!
Sir, how i wish you can give your life to Jesus Christ so you can make heaven. The reason why i said this was that, in one of your interview which i listened to, you said your into cult, pls before death come, you need to repent confess the sin of cultism and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour before death comes so you can make heaven and enjoy eternal rest.
So u think if there is one paradise somewhere those that came to preach it to you will come ,so they love u to that extent and want you to live together in that paradise that even in this earth that we live together they still wish to take over your land.. be wise . The most powerful countries on earth,those that are controlling the future of the earth, the decision makers of the earth are not Christians..be wise
By believing in and accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord!? The wisest and best decision you can make that will resonate in eternity!
Mr Soyinka sits humbly....legs not crossed. The interviewer, much younger, sits cross legged. In our culture, the Ganda in Uganda, you could earn a thrash sitting like that in the presence of an elder!😂
You are right! Professor Wole Soyinka is a Yoruba Man. In Yoruba land, with people spread across West Africa and the Globe, the sitting position of that interviewer was culturally disrespectful! A young person never sits like that before an elderly person! By the way, I am proudly Yoruba.
Prepare to meet the God you would not serve. What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole knowledge and lose his soul? Yet the gates of heaven is not far from you if you would receive the Lord Jesus as your personal Lord and saviour now. May God grant you the prevenient grace to make this all-important decision.
That's not 90yrs.People increase their years, while still young, others reduce their's while they are aged.That doesn't change anything,... you will never be contented in this dust.😥
I hope repenting, asking forgiveness from God and acknowledging Jesus Christ as his Lord and saviour should be one of his main goals before dying so as to secure eternity with the Lord.
Prof Wole Soyinka, you have prepared for your burial. But have you prepared for your eternity? Where do you go from here? No. Everybody is not headed for the same "future" as you claim. You are not just body. You are spirit, soul abd body. Your body decays and turns to the soil after your spirt-soul depart from that body. It is that separation of spirit-soul from the body that is called death. Once the spirt-soul leave the body at death, you can't control where your spirit-soul goes. You make a choice of where your spirit-soul will go by your choice of your relationship with Jesus Christ. Your conviction to the contrary does not change that fact. You still have the chance to make that choice while you still have life in you. When Jesus Christ was dying, there were two convicted armed robbers crucified with him - one on the right and the other on His left. One was moving Jesus. The one on the right rebuked his sin partner for such insolence. He asked Jesus to remember him in His kingdom. Jesus did not say anything to the thief who was abusing Him. He didn't even condemn him. He knew the thief had chosen his path after death. Jesus only spoke with the thief on the right, "Today, thou shalt be with me in Paradise", and He died. That robber was on his way to Hell if he had died without Christ. But his confession and request to Jesus made Him to have eternal life. The other thief didn't go to Hell just because he was a sinner. He went to Hell because he had a last opportunity of salvation but chose to die in his sins. I plead with Prof Soyinka to use the opportunity he has to still be alive at 90 to think again about his relationship with Jesus Christ. His choice will determine his future after leaving the body. I have read probably all your books and plays and poems as at 1986. I have explored your mind and intelligence through your literary. I appreciate your literary prowess. May God still give you good health to see more days (even though you say you don't believe in God). Happy birthday.
At 90, and you still endorses Nonses. This the right time to live rightly. Wining an award in the days when u were a noble man, doesn’t mean you should hide under that umbrella to support evil. I hope u take a step back, and not ruin everything ur name ever stood for .
See how people are talking with respect here, now compare with your response? children of hate...he didn't stop you from endorsing your candidate Peter Obi in the last election, is it a crime that Soyinka endorses Bola Tinubu as president? This is how your tribe keeps spoiling Nigeria's name in South Africa and they think it's the whole of Nigeria.
I've lost count of how many times he told everyone who was listening that he did his best to even talk Bola Tinubu out of running for president; just so he could let the younger generation assume that mantle. But Bola Tinubu refused. Regardless of the fact that they've been friends for years now. If Bola Tinubu ran for president and became one, how's that is his problem if he has to call, visit or chat with Bola Tinubu? How's that his problem if Bola Tinubu is not doing well as a president? And in any case, must an Igbo man be the president?
You are bureaucratic trained mindset due to your Education degree and paranoid physco. Please note you will need to get your mental health problems check
Is you that is ignorant, because you do not understand the secrets of life. Those objects you see around are never idols, but the self imagination. Is work of art that has meaning to him.
@akinyiokeyo4618 Prof Soyinka's father was a clergyman , a christian minister. His son, Wole, who has been blessed with intellectual gifts, international acclaim, honour, success and long life has rejected christianity and chosen to be a pagan. He plainly states that he is not a christian.
You talk like a slave and remain slave forever. Enjoy your apartheid of the theological slavery. I'm an African think like Africa. Good for you Tennant in your landlocked area
this man is 90 with a straight back, does not walk with a cane, his mental faculties are in check, amazing memory....he is doing something right
Have you seen where and how he lives?
he is reading without glasses wow
he did not use his glasses while typing on computer at 90
He is eating everything organic
He drank and smoke too.
This legend is a phenomenal, endowed with the gift of longevity, sound health and mind, outlived his generation and is an inspiration to the Gen Zs! Adorable! Respect!
Okay 90 No walking sticks,still strong ,No eye glasses still in the computer . okay.this is Awesome.God keep Him
I don't think he's ready to face God whom he has refuted for the better part of his life
@@vinesofyore5735 which of the gods? the one brought by foreigners?
Amen
His literature and teachings has added a lot of value in South Africans.....🇿🇦✊🏾
Please ask him where we can get his books today. Thank him dearly for us
He looks and sounds fabulous for 90. More health to you, Sir.
Am just 19 but am obsessed with Wola Soyinka his a legend.
The dude is the best story teller I need to watch the whole interview Larry.
Wole Soyinka is 90 years young 😂😂wow!! He looks better than most of the 65s i know🤗🤗
The secret is writing 😅
duly noted😅
@@marriamnachale4174 its diet, genetics, and lifestyle
There is hope for mankind if it is possible for a 90-year-old specimen to be like this!
The man is not hard of hearing!
He is still cognitive and coherent!
Walks unaided and uses a laptop without glasses!
Some folks half his age have lost these capabilities!
Larry, pls let us know his secret herbal drink!
He is man of outstanding qualities.
He is an exceptionally strong and good man. I wish him more sound health..
A living Legend!
Cograts Larry one of my favourite jounarist
Thank you so much for your invaluable contribution to African literature Mr Soyinka❤❤❤
At 90, he looks so radiant
Please post the whole interview here Larry we really need to watch this.
Greatest interview Larry. Big up to you and Mzee Wole!
2:18 “ I enjoy solitude a lot, I do, but I think secretly, I long for company and that’s why I accumulate all these”
As one, I know that most loners, introverts & people with high levels of reservation will rather chew a jean jacket than admit this. This is an honest one!
Allow mi to thank you for your contribution towards africa,great u have lived to 90to spread enlightenment dear papa grandie
Great write. I love his hair.. Really endowed.
❤❤.he has written a lots of books.HE is important African
To be blessed really is to attain an age such as 90, still with a straight back while walking in addition to making a lot of traveling both locally, nationally and internationally. Oh yes indeed, for a younger one, to not wish to be like you sir must definitely be a craziness. Bless your creator and am wishing you more pleasant days ahead in your life journey. Props sir!
90 with incredible eyes. Using laptop.
Wow
Congratulations and HBD Prof W.S
My best African writer
Have you read the works of Chinua Achebe?
Why must everything be a competition?@@nugsy2010
@@nugsy2010 yeah i have read things fall apart, no longer at ease and the arrow of god.
Africa's Professor. Would love to see a dialogue with him and P.L.O. Lumumba
At 90 still looking young
One of the literature books I did was The Road by the legend Wole Soyinka 🇰🇪
A Great Man.
Pole Soyinka is doing well for his age, imagine his hair has not thinned out. Great !!!
i read most of his poetic works he is a greatwriter
Thanks for sharing
Wow he it seems like he won’t die. He’s ever young
Tuko apa sasa.This channel must grow .
I'd like to view the whole interview. This is very interesting.
Great man!!!
God's Love Keeps HIM.
More birthday's I wish to meet you one day.
Despite his age, he is still active and able to perpetuate education.
Much respect
"...where the ground is wet with mourning, dew suckles flesh bird... trapping flies in wind froth.." - Except from Abiku
Meanwhile, I was bald already by 42.😜😜😜😜 This man is still endowed with a full afro at 90.
OH SO SAD. I STILL REMEMBER "THINGS FALL APART" .
I give up 😂😂😂
Did he write the book??
Chinua Achebe wrote "Things Fall Apart."
@@theresaamuasi9649 Yes chinua Achebe
The class of.....😊
He looks way younger than 90
Where is the full interview Larry?
th-cam.com/video/mPnJ8hnKce4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tMzBCoaUoTZnQEhn
Full interview please!
Sir, how i wish you can give your life to Jesus Christ so you can make heaven. The reason why i said this was that, in one of your interview which i listened to, you said your into cult, pls before death come, you need to repent confess the sin of cultism and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour before death comes so you can make heaven and enjoy eternal rest.
So u think if there is one paradise somewhere those that came to preach it to you will come ,so they love u to that extent and want you to live together in that paradise that even in this earth that we live together they still wish to take over your land.. be wise . The most powerful countries on earth,those that are controlling the future of the earth, the decision makers of the earth are not Christians..be wise
I hope Larry has heard you
Not everyone is a religious slave. Most philosophers have decolonized their minds and freed themselves from mental slavery.
How will i ever meet this man in his home town ? I don't mind traveling to his own state .
Strong eyes
His mind is sharp.
You will live more years
By believing in and accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord!? The wisest and best decision you can make that will resonate in eternity!
Where can one access the full interview
On cnn website
Where has he settled?
Mr Soyinka sits humbly....legs not crossed. The interviewer, much younger, sits cross legged. In our culture, the Ganda in Uganda, you could earn a thrash sitting like that in the presence of an elder!😂
You are right!
Professor Wole Soyinka is a Yoruba Man. In Yoruba land, with people spread across West Africa and the Globe, the sitting position of that interviewer was culturally disrespectful!
A young person never sits like that before an elderly person! By the way, I am proudly Yoruba.
Prepare to meet the God you would not serve. What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole knowledge and lose his soul? Yet the gates of heaven is not far from you if you would receive the Lord Jesus as your personal Lord and saviour now. May God grant you the prevenient grace to make this all-important decision.
He looks like Morgan Freeman even the voice
Congratulations to baba Wole Soyinka. Praying that you will see Jesus before you see death.
I would ask him if he may receive Jesus now before he leaves.
90 Looks healthier than tinubu 72
Wow
Thumbnail made me think that was Morgan Freeman
❤❤
Lol how do you ask a 90yr old man what's in his future! And then you're surprised he's making plans for his departure!!!
That's not 90yrs.People increase their years, while still young, others reduce their's while they are aged.That doesn't change anything,... you will never be contented in this dust.😥
We can't all act same
He looks like someone in 70s
😊
I hope repenting, asking forgiveness from God and acknowledging Jesus Christ as his Lord and saviour should be one of his main goals before dying so as to secure eternity with the Lord.
Please upload the full interview larry😅
Happy Birthday, Prof
Make Jesus your Lord and savior.
Please stop,so irritating mental slavery and respect others,I'm his biggest follower he is role model to all of Africa ‼️free your self from slavery 🙏
Capn Blood...!
Currently reading his book ""Isara : a voyage around essay", a literary genius no doubt but an evil man nonetheless.
It takes an evil man to identify another evil man!!
Kwani imeisha??
How come he is 90 and he has hair and Larry is +40 and no hair?
Why do u force death on him, discuss his knowledge bro..
Soyinka looking like 60, black don't crack 👍🏿
Prof Wole Soyinka, you have prepared for your burial. But have you prepared for your eternity? Where do you go from here?
No. Everybody is not headed for the same "future" as you claim. You are not just body. You are spirit, soul abd body. Your body decays and turns to the soil after your spirt-soul depart from that body. It is that separation of spirit-soul from the body that is called death. Once the spirt-soul leave the body at death, you can't control where your spirit-soul goes.
You make a choice of where your spirit-soul will go by your choice of your relationship with Jesus Christ. Your conviction to the contrary does not change that fact.
You still have the chance to make that choice while you still have life in you.
When Jesus Christ was dying, there were two convicted armed robbers crucified with him - one on the right and the other on His left. One was moving Jesus. The one on the right rebuked his sin partner for such insolence. He asked Jesus to remember him in His kingdom.
Jesus did not say anything to the thief who was abusing Him. He didn't even condemn him. He knew the thief had chosen his path after death. Jesus only spoke with the thief on the right, "Today, thou shalt be with me in Paradise", and He died. That robber was on his way to Hell if he had died without Christ. But his confession and request to Jesus made Him to have eternal life.
The other thief didn't go to Hell just because he was a sinner. He went to Hell because he had a last opportunity of salvation but chose to die in his sins.
I plead with Prof Soyinka to use the opportunity he has to still be alive at 90 to think again about his relationship with Jesus Christ. His choice will determine his future after leaving the body.
I have read probably all your books and plays and poems as at 1986. I have explored your mind and intelligence through your literary. I appreciate your literary prowess. May God still give you good health to see more days (even though you say you don't believe in God).
Happy birthday.
Well said...I pray and hope he listens
He is almost sleeping
Watching Morgan Freeman's Dad... 😅😅
This man is not only a hypocrite. He is a clown who you can't even trust. I have interviewed him before, and i can't stand his arrogance.
At 90, and you still endorses Nonses. This the right time to live rightly. Wining an award in the days when u were a noble man, doesn’t mean you should hide under that umbrella to support evil. I hope u take a step back, and not ruin everything ur name ever stood for .
Tell me more
See how people are talking with respect here, now compare with your response? children of hate...he didn't stop you from endorsing your candidate Peter Obi in the last election, is it a crime that Soyinka endorses Bola Tinubu as president? This is how your tribe keeps spoiling Nigeria's name in South Africa and they think it's the whole of Nigeria.
I've lost count of how many times he told everyone who was listening that he did his best to even talk Bola Tinubu out of running for president; just so he could let the younger generation assume that mantle. But Bola Tinubu refused. Regardless of the fact that they've been friends for years now.
If Bola Tinubu ran for president and became one, how's that is his problem if he has to call, visit or chat with Bola Tinubu? How's that his problem if Bola Tinubu is not doing well as a president?
And in any case, must an Igbo man be the president?
Hopefully you'll need to grow up and your father or mother never got that status
@@jimifashI wonder oo!!!
But this man gave Nigeria society a cancer of cultists that has engulf Nigeria at home and abroad.
You are bureaucratic trained mindset due to your Education degree and paranoid physco. Please note you will need to get your mental health problems check
Nothing concern Biafra with you
Ingratitude to the core and that's why every see your greediness. Keep up crying out for your war business
The man is blessed and has been favoured by God. Unfortunately, he is ignorant of the source of his blessings and chooses to serve idols...
Is you that is ignorant, because you do not understand the secrets of life. Those objects you see around are never idols, but the self imagination. Is work of art that has meaning to him.
Jasmin, how dare you?!
Who are we to judge others? Who is the great WS hurting? Just shush!
How?
@akinyiokeyo4618 Prof Soyinka's father was a clergyman , a christian minister. His son, Wole, who has been blessed with intellectual gifts, international acclaim, honour, success and long life has rejected christianity and chosen to be a pagan. He plainly states that he is not a christian.
A bigot😊
How do we even celebrate an atheist who says our faith in Christ is in vain ?
You talk like a slave and remain slave forever. Enjoy your apartheid of the theological slavery. I'm an African think like Africa. Good for you Tennant in your landlocked area
First watched wole 28 years ago
1Co 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
Please pray for our distinguished Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, to receive Christ Jesus as Lord and Saviour. Please 🙏🙏🙏
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