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Scholars, others celebrate Wole Soyinka online @87

written by Taiwo Adediran July 13, 2021
Scholars, others celebrate Wole Soyinka online @87

Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange project, 13th edition, emerged again on Tuesday with young leaders around the world holding visual and live discourses in honour of the Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, who turned 87 today.

The WSICE has been a global networking and empowerment platform for like-minded scholars and intellectuals both young and old.

Alhaji Teju Kareem,the Executive Producer of the project, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the ZMirage Multimedia Company, noted that the WSICE in its 13th year had refocused its agenda strictly on discovering and grooming young intellectuals and change-makers from around the world, through its newly initiated International Youth Assembly.

He stated, IYA forms the nucleus of the three-in-one programming contents for the 2021 edition of the project slated for between July 13 and 14 in hybrid format–virtual space and live.

Kareem said, “Through the IYA, we intend young people from diverse parts and cultures of the world to connect, engage and learn from one another as well as receive mentoring from eminent resource persons, who are themselves leaders in their individual area of discipline.’’

Saying the WSICE2021 edition will, as is traditional to the project, mark the 87th birthday anniversary of the grand patron and inspiration behind the project, Prof Wole Soyinka, Kareem, said the theme, ‘That our future may not disappear’, has been specially conceived to address the now widely spread incident of ‘disappearing humanity’ through acts of kidnapping, abductions, human ‘cancels’, social and cultural discrimination on the bases of colour, creed, faith, physio-mental features and others.

He added, “For the IYA session, 17 youths from four continents have been elected through a rigorous process to speak on the theme from their individual perspectives, and they will also be mentored by thought leaders whom we have tagged, ‘Advocates of Conscience’, who will also explore the theme to help the young ones frame their thoughts about the future of our collective humanity.”

Also, speaking on contents of the 2021 edition, its Producer, Aduke Aladekomo, said that the programme was expected to feature over 5000 young people drawn from across four continents of the world.

She noted that the events would be held in a hybrid format of virtual and live. Aladekomo said the International Youth Assembly, in which past winners of the yearly WSICE essay contests will be joined by contemporaries from other countries and cultures to “discuss the issue of disappearance of all forms and how it affects their future and the survival of the human family”.

“The Advocacy Session in which specially selected eminent cultural and educational leaders named “Advocates of Conscience ” – who are renowned for having dedicated their time, life and careers to speaking for and working with young people, would share their experiences with participants in the youth assembly. Featuring in the segment are; renowned Caribbean performance poet-philosopher-activist, Mutabaruka, the American physician-storyteller, Dr Russell Low, and the Chinese-American classic musician, Jian Wang; the renowned choreographer, theatre maker and culture advocate, Segun Adefila and the humanitarian art maker, Seyi Oluyole. The advocacy has remained a flagship event of the yearly WSICE since its beginning in 2010. It is another important platform that comes at a crucial time when the world is in need of critical thinking to seek out possibilities to the problems that even seem insurmountable.

“The Writerly Workshop session in which writers and members of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Ogun Chapter, will stage live mentoring sessions on the theme with students drawn from schools in various parts of Ogun State.

“While the discourse and Advocacy sessions will hold on July 13 in the virtual space, the live event on the 14th will hold at the Ijegba Theatre Resort located in the heart of the Autonomous Republic of Ijegba, A.R.I – the thickly forested residence of the Nobel laureate who is the grand inspiration behind the project.”

Kareem  further said that to consolidate on its international profile which it firmly established last year, the WSICE had renewed its partnership with the San Diego State University, United States, which would be the virtual host, and as well supplying some of the resource persons.

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