Nobel
Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Sunday, said he graduated with Second
Class Upper Division and not Third Class Honour from the University College,
Ibadan, as widely believed.
He
said this while fielding questions from 79 secondary school students drawn from
different parts of the country, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, as part of
2013 Open Door Series project, “Memoirs of Our Future,” an international
cultural exchange programme organised to mark his 79th birthday.
The
programme was organised by a Lagos-based multi-media company, Zmirage, in
collaboration with the Ogun State government.
Soyinka
told the students that he decided to open up on the matter as a mark of respect
for