Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel Honour Wole Soyinka
The President and first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba ,Miguel Diaz-Canel has Conferred a National Medal Of Honour 0n Nigerian writer and Nobel Prize in Literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka.
The award was given on Thursday behalf of Cuba and at the proposal of the Minister of Culture.
As reported by the Presidency on X, Jorge Fornet, director of the Center for Literary Research of Casa de las Americas, in his remarks of praise, said that awarding Soyinka the medal that bears the name of that extraordinary woman “is an act of justice that honors us.”
After the ceremony, Diaz-Canel held a meeting with Soyinka, where he thanked her for his visit in such a complex moment for Cuba.
“It is the visit of a brother who has always been fighting for the most just causes,” the president noted.
The Haydee Santamaria Medal is conferred to national and foreign citizens and groups who, over the years, have shared the main objectives of the Casa: the enrichment, defense and integration of the genuine cultures of Cuba region and the entire South.
This event also celebrates Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday and the 60th anniversary of his first visit to Cuba, where he has returned on several occasions.
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