"I was recently the recipient of what one writer called 'a devastating public verbal assault' by Wole Soyinka. The occasion was an interview with Sahara Reporters, in the course of which I was tagged as a sterile literary upstart', 'an inept hustler', 'an ignoble character', and 'an empty, notoriety-hungry hanger-on and upstart searching for relevance'. My original sin was my review of his latest memoir, You Must Set Forth at Dawn, which appeared in the London Review of Books. It seems I then compounded matters by what he deemed unflattering references to himself in A Peculiar Tragedy, my 'ghetto tract' on JP Clark, which he considered a compendium of outright impudent lies, fish market gossip, unanchored attributions, trendy drivel and name dropping'. Quite a list. I almost feel rebuked by the headmaster at morning assembly."
- Adewale Maja-Pearce
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