“50th Anniversary celebration of Lagos State to project the black race” – Wole Soyinka

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday, inaugurated a 12-man committee at Lagos House, Ikeja, chaired by Soyinka to organise a befitting Golden Jubilee, 50th Years’ Anniversary celebration of the state, scheduled for next year.

The Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka said that the forthcoming 50th Years’ Anniversary celebration of Lagos State would be used to project the black race at home and in diaspora.

According to the renowned Professor of Literature” If Well Selected” would work assiduously to ensure that Lagos has the most befitting of the celebration. He likened the celebration to that of the Black in the Mediterranean Blue”, saying, “It would be used to project the black race not just for the colonial experience and slave trade but also as cultural people” Soyinka thanked the governor for the opportunity and promised a befitting celebration, saying Lagos State deserved a befitting celebration being what it is to Nigeria.

Soyinka in his remark, said the celebration of Lagos at 50 would afford an excellent opportunity for the state to identify with the triumph, losses and experience of the Black Race at home and in the diaspora.