The 13th edition of the Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange project emerged again on Tuesday with young leaders around the world holding visual and live discourses in honour of the Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, who turned 87 today.
The WSICE has been a global networking and empowerment platform for like-minded scholars and intellectuals both young and old.
The Executive Producer of the project, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the ZMirage Multimedia Company, Alhaji Teju Kareem, noted that the WSICE in its 13th year had refocused its agenda strictly on discovering and grooming young intellectuals and change-makers from around the world, through its newly initiated International Youth Assembly.
According to him, IYA forms the nucleus of the three-in-one programming contents for the 2021 edition of the project slated for between July 13 and 14 in hybrid format–virtual space and live.
Kareem stated,
“Through the IYA, we intend young people from diverse parts and cultures of the world to connect, engage and learn from one another as well as receive mentoring from eminent resource persons, who are themselves leaders in their individual area of discipline.’’
Saying the WSICE2021 edition will, as is traditional to the project, mark the 87th birthday anniversary of the grand patron and inspiration behind the project, Prof Wole Soyinka, Kareem, said the theme, ‘That our future may not disappear’, has been specially conceived to address the now widely spread incident of ‘disappearing humanity’ through acts of kidnapping, abductions, human ‘cancels’, social and cultural discriminations on the bases of colour, creed, faith, physio-mental features and others.
He added, “For the IYA session, 17 youths from four continents have been elected through a rigorous process to speak on the theme from their individual perspectives, and they will also be mentored by thought leaders whom we have tagged, ‘Advocates of Conscience’, who will also explore the theme to help the young ones frame their thoughts about the future of our collective humanity.”
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