Summary Of Hysteria By Wale Soyinka

Wale Soyinka: Managing Or Inflaming Hysteria?

By Sunday Njokede

Boo! To all haters, wailers, barkers, backstabbers and co. Go to hell and burn to ashes! That is what Mr. Wole Soyinka is telling those who dare question his credibility, asking him to come clean and let his yes, be yes, and his no, be no.

Soyinka provoked an international anger pang over refusal to cut his resident permit as he promised, should Mr. Trump win over Mrs. Clinton.

Before Mr. Soyinka went about writing his: " ... Notes Towards The Management Of Hysteria," passions were already running high worldwide. In the aftermath his write-up, there is high blood pressure all over the places. In effect, his narration has made hysteria larger instead of managing it. One wonders

His greatest undoing is the ways and means he cursed his readers and haters giving them "Red Card" provovatively without committing any foul. Promising to damage his resident permit and not doing it, is just a sidekick and the lesser evil. His lengthy tirade of self-promotion is what actually cuts the ice here. There is surely another gentle but respectful way to write about how to manage hysteria without pricking and chucking your critics and readers to strangulation. There is bound to be a bitter backlash therefrom,

The APC could have done better in such narcissistic venture of propaganda without boundary. The prof. could have written his manual on how to shoot down hysteria in a few lines but he chose instead, to sadomastically force everyone to read his autobiography of a difference. He could have told us his life history at other times not now, when his trustworthiness is at stake and he needs doing beeline and making amends. Mr Soyinka surely needs to write another narrative on how to douse off and manage hysteria. The extant one he had just written will not stand the test of time. It belongs to the trashcan as the roughneck and wayward army General from Ogun