How I escaped death in Kenya Mall attack -- Soyinka

But for a stroke of luck, Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka would have been among the dead in the terror attack that took place at the Nairobi Westgate Mall in kenya last weekend.
    Speaking at a press conference which took place at the freedom park, Victoria Island, Lagos on friday in honour of the late Ghanian poet, Professor Kofi Awoonor who died in the attack, Soyinka led a group of writers to condemn the Nairobi massacre.
      Soyinka, who said he, like Awoonor, was invited to the storymoja/Hay Literature Festival, said he couldn't because of other pressing engagements he had elsewhere.
    Condemning the use of religion to commit atrocities, Soyinka who spoke on the theme "Humanity and Against", said; " Those who organised  and carried out the outrage on innocent lives in Nairobi are carriers of the most lethal virus of corruption imaginable -- corruption of the soul, corruption of the spirit, corruption of that animatising humanistic essence that seperates us from predatory beasts.