Nobel Laureate winner Professor Wole Soyinka has revealed that he has never felt he needed any religion.
Soyinka described himself as a mythologist during the public presentation of his two-volume collection of essays and revealed further that he doesn’t worship deities that he even considers creatively real.
He said: “Do I really need one (religion)? I have never felt I needed one.
“I am a mythologist. I believe that people have a right and cannot help creating mythologies around themselves, around their experiences about what they project from the inner recesses of their minds as answers to questions.
“And so I find nothing wrong with utilizing mythologies as part and parcel of my creative warehouse.
“But religion? No, I don’t worship any deity. But I consider deities as creatively real and therefore my companions in my journey in both the real world and the imaginative world.”
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