Tony Morrison like Derek Walcott and Nadine Gordimer was fond of Kongi and had championed his courses and advocacies worldwide.She saw Wole Soyinka as prime motivation an inspirational figure and personal excitement about kongi was expressed in a 2024 piece in The Republic that discusses her advocacy for him.The Soyinka lecture delivered at the Toni Morrison lecture series in 2016 entitled Sweet Are the Uses Of Adversity,was particularly enthralling.
First we examine the checkered antecedence of the first female black Nobel from her first novel The Bluest Eyes published in 1970 to the controversially acclaimed Songs of Solomon brought her to national limelight and earned her National Book Critics Circle Awards.
Winfrey once wrote on Instagram "In the beginning was the word Toni Morrison took the word and turned it into the songs of Solomon ,of sula, beloved, mercy and paradise love and more." Then she says "She was our conscience .Our seer.Our truth teller.She was a magician with language who understood the power of words.She used them to roil us,to wake us,to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them."
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