March 21 is UNESCO’s World Poetry Day and Providus Bank is hosting ‘An Evening of Life and Ideas with Wole Soyinka’, to celebrate the literary icon. UNESCO WoleSoyinka ProvidusBank
To celebrate the day in Lagos, Providus Bank is hosting An Evening of Life and Ideas with Wole Soyinka. The event is scheduled for 5:00pm at the bank’s corporate headquarters in Lagos.
The organisation said: “World Poetry Day is the occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media.”
In her message on the occasion of the World Poetry Day 2019, Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, said, “UNESCO is putting the spotlight on indigenous poetry, to celebrate the unique and powerful role of poetry in standing against marginalisation and injustice, and in uniting cultures in the spirit of solidarity.” She continued, “poetry is important for the safeguarding of often-endangered languages, as well as the maintenance of linguistic and cultural diversity.
This designation comes at a time when indigenous people and their languages and cultures are increasingly under threat, in particular from climate change and industrial development.
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