Soyinka Says Boko Haram Are Enemies Of Sound Knowledge

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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described members of Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as enemies of sound knowledge who only indulge in manufacturing of destructive equipment.

Delivering a lecture at the third convocation ceremony of the Kwara State University, (KWASU) Malete, the academic and political activist said that Nigerians should not see the sufferings, brutality and terror and insurgency being witnessed by some states in the northern parts of the country as their problems alone.
He emphasised that the ‘temple of learning’ must be protected irrespective of gender or religion, saying, “no woman, no nation”.
Professor Soyinka, in a lecture titled ‘Science and Imagination In Temple Of Knowledge’, asked rhetorically, “Can science and religion co-exist?”, as he described members of Boko Haram sect as enemies of sound knowledge.
He said members of terrorist sect Boko Haram are not actually without any knowledge, since they knew the science of making bombs and killing people, he opined that they have only failed to acquire knowledge on human co-existence.
He also decried the agony, humiliation and trauma of the abducted Chibok girls in the hands of their captors, as they embarked on their secondary school qualifying examination.
Professor Soyinka said that he was always sad whenever he relived an imagination of the experience the girls would be going through. He described the situation as an irony.