Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned the recent ban on a song by Nigerian musician, Eedris Abdulkareem, calling the move a regression to a culture of censorship and a serious threat to the right to free expression.
In a statement issued from New York University, Abu Dhabi, on Sunday, Soyinka expressed his disapproval of the ban and its broader implications, stating that it echoed past attempts to suppress artistic and socio-political commentary in Nigeria.