It’s a common phrase, but the truth behind it hits hard: “Africans and Black people hardly read.” This lack of deep engagement is why history remembers Wole Soyinka more as a “fraternity leader” than as Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature. It’s why Chinua Achebe, who should be honored as the father of Nigerian literature, was reduced to a subject of petty ethics banter. Here’s a fact many ignore: Wole Soyinka once joined Lewis Nkosi to interview Achebe in 1964 about “Things Fall Apart.” Let value these literary icons properly, before we lose more legends to cultural amnesia.#mixofusng