#BringBackOurGirls: Wole Soyinka Speaks To CNN On Kidnapped School Girls

Nigerian writer, Wole Soyinka was on CNN on Tuesday where he spoke about the over 200 missing Chibok Chibok girls - the security situation in Nigeria and the efforts of the Goodluck Jonathan administration in the fighting of terrorism in the country.

Soyinka who spoke with CNN's Chief International Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, said the search for more than 200 girls in Nigeria is now “beyond the capacity” of the government and needs international support, Nigerian author and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.

“This is a government which is not only in denial mentally, but in denial about certain obvious steps to take,” Soyinka, a Nobel laureate who is often referred to as the conscience of his nation, told Amanpour.

“It’s one of those rather child-like situations that if you shut your eyes, if you don’t exhibit the tactile evidence of the missing humanity here, that somehow the problem will go away.”
It is not just “a Nigerian problem,” he said.

“I’m calling for the international community, the United Nations – this is a problem. This is a global problem. And a foothold is being very deeply entrenched in West Africa.”