Intervention VI: Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie – A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars II

The graver the lie, the greater its need for fertilizers. Its ravenousness chains the liar to the maintenance of an original fabrication, whose appetite has no limits. Thus, in extreme cases, if it is necessary to rob, the liar does not even think twice; he robs. If it is necessary to maim, he maims. If killing is what it takes… well, why don’t the sceptical over this simply check a few police files? When the target proves difficult to kill, then, of course, they must kill whatever he or she represents.” A follow-up to the earlier volume, Soyinka is just as cutting and acerbic, as he takes on his bêtes noire in ‘The Republic of Liars’; and as usual, he pulls no punches.Author: Wole Soyinka Categories: African, Biography, Geography, Leadership, Non-Fiction Tags: A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars II, Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie, Intervention VI, interventions, wole soyinka