"And What of It If Thus He Died?" - Wole Soyinka reads his poem for Victor Banjo and George Jackson 

Wole Soyinka recites a poem on April 20, 1973, first conceived while he was in solitary confinement in honour of Victor Banjo - leader of the Third Movement during the Nigerian-Biafran conflict.
Victor Banjo was executed under General Odumegwu Ojukwu's orders in 1967. Wole, who was, at the time, in prison, conceptualized the poem and re-wrote his earlier draft after the shooting of George Jackson (August 1971), in his attempt to make the elegy "less localized."
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