WSIU InFocus Video Player

Roz: Wole Soyinka is a renowned scholar, human rights activist, poet and playwright. In 1986 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his collective literary works. Last week, he came to SIU Carbondale to participate in an International symposium on his work. He was the featured speaker at a public lecture, and also oversaw a performance of one of his greatest works, the play titled, "Death and the King's Horsemen," George: Our Jak Tichenor was able to talk with Soyinka who is considered by many, to be Africa’s greatest living writer and playwright.

To view the video on the page, installation of the Silverlight plug-in from Microsoft. The direct link to the video is available. Further, Macintosh users will need the Flip4Mac software installed to play Windows Media files.