Social media in Nigeria has been slammed by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who called it “taken over by barbarians.”
Soyinka voiced dissatisfaction with the dwindling quality of intellectual conversation on Nigerian social media platforms during a speech at an event.
He observed that while social media ought to encourage rational interaction, in Nigeria, the intellectual quotient has been supplanted by a decline in conversation.
Soyinka brought to light situations in which a simple disagreement over an election might result in people being publicly branded on social media.
He appealed to the country’s intellectual elite to save the nation from the damaging effects of social media.