The Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has delivered a stinging, comprehensive analysis of the manipulation of the institution of religion in his country and on the continent and concluded that we are on a course of destruction unless we find a way to keep the excesses of religion in check.
Professor Soyinka, speaking at the launch of a book – Religion and the Making of Nigeria, written by Prof. Olufemi Vaughan – in Abuja on Thursday, said that the history of the institution in Africa has been one of an unmitigated disaster and that unless we tame it, religion is going to tame us.