Professor Soyinka with the Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid. Photo credit: Mehimdate Mohammed
Professor Wole Soyinka was the special guest of the Moroccan government at the 28th edition of that country’s well-attended book festival.
Prof. Soyinka at a press conference with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid. Mrs Latifa Moftaqir sits second right and Ali Benmakhlouf, right. Photo credit: Mehimdate Mohammed.
Professor Soyinka, Mrs Latifa Moftaqir, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid and others. Photo credit: Mehimdate Mohammed.
On Friday 9 June, Professor Soyinka, after a press conference with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, was on stage at Ribat Al Fath for a conversation with Ali Benmakhlouf.
L-R: Mr Kunle Ajibade; Louis Odion, former Information Commissioner, Edo State; Professor Wole Soyinka, Rakiya Yagboyaju, Ahmed Shuaibu-Gara Gombe, the man in blue cap behind is the Acting Nigeria’s Ambassador to Morocco, Mansur Nuhu Bamali. Photo credit: Mehimdate Mohammed.
On Saturday 10 June the Nobel Laureate visited Al Qaraouiyine, a UNESCO world heritage site, one of the world’s oldest universities in the city of Fez, with all its medieval architecture, its medina and its treasure of sights and sounds.
Soyinka left Rabat on 11 June to be in Lagos for the 12 June events.