{"id":141514,"date":"2024-01-21T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/21\/barbarians-have-taken-over-social-media-in-nigeria-soyinka-laments\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:12:55","slug":"barbarians-have-taken-over-social-media-in-nigeria-soyinka-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/21\/barbarians-have-taken-over-social-media-in-nigeria-soyinka-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Barbarians Have Taken Over Social Media In Nigeria&#8221; \u2014 Soyinka Laments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has lamented over the state of Nigeria social media users.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka said that the internet space has been dragged down to the least denominator and taken over by people he described as barbarians.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, in other climes, social media is still valid as a means of interaction because of the intellectual content and reasoned engagements being deployed by users.<\/p>\n<p>The Noble laureate led this out on Saturday at the 48th President\u2019s party and his investiture as an honorary member of the prestigious Abeokuta Club, Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe social media is awash with accusations of one being a kind of ethnophobic. So strange to me but that is what we have been reduced to. And when that kind of accusation comes, there is no need or value in trying to say you are not. You just say, \u2018Thank you very much! The complement of ethnophobia is ethnophilia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Wole Soyinka Went To UI But Can\u2019t Tender The Certificate \u2013 Don Pedro Obaseki<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m astonished and flabbergasted that people are so power-besotted that they can\u2019t even accept the possibility that they did not win an election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not matter whether you are right or wrong or they are right. It is just a question. Take your facts to the table, let\u2019s examine them carefully, consider the possibility that we may be wrong or you may be wrong but you don\u2019t have to descend into demonisation of the group to which others belong to establish your point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t deal in social media. As far as I\u2019m concerned, barbarians have taken over social media and they have swapped the intellectual quotient which used to make and still make social media valid in other societies. Here in this country, social media has been dragged down to the lowest common denominator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I believe in the community of the intellect of minds and creativity to rescue us from the monstrosity that social media has become (in this country).\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-2097693667\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has lamented over the state of Nigeria social media users. Soyinka said that the internet space has been dragged down to the least denominator and taken over by people he described as barbarians. 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