As reported by the Observer (The Guardian's Sunday Paper), the BBC has hired the Nigerian Nobel Prize Winner Wole Soyinka, for its Reith Lecture series. He will deliver his last lecture at Emory University, Atlanta, where he is Emeritus Professor of the Arts. For his finale, Soyinka will categorize both Bin Laden and Bush, as tarred by the same brush. He says they are a:' twin strain of the same fanatic spore that threatens to consume the world in its messianic fires'. Obviously these days one doesn't need a balanced mind to become an Emeritus Professor of the Arts.

Posted by Michael Morris   02 28 04