Amnesty Social
Monday, February 1
6:30 p.m.
Wheeler Auditorium
RSVP to the Facebook event here.
We will be meeting as a group in front of Wheeler to wait in line for free tickets around 6:30. Bring food or snacks to share, as it doesn't start until 7:30. See you there!
"Rights and Relativity: The Interplay of Cultures"
Monday, February 1, 2010
7:30 pm | Wheeler Auditorium
Writer, playwright and poet, Wole Soyinka is the author of over thirty books. He was also the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of many Nigerian military dictators and of political tyrannies worldwide, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. He has been imprisoned several times for his criticism of the government, and has lived in exile at various points during his life. A consistently courageous voice for human rights worldwide, Soyinka is involved in numerous international artistic and human rights organizations, including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the International Parliament of Writers.
Read more about the event here: http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/avenali_soyinka.shtml
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