I’ve been listening to Wole Soyinka’s lectures on the politics of fear these last two nights. They are excellent, both grim and funny, piercing and irreverent (as befits the brilliant if at times ambiguous [and dreadfully underproduced] playwright)

He really shines when exploring the complex and fraught relationship between terrorism and liberation movements. The first 4 are available for download as MP3s. via ben who survived the desert.