While it has been ascertained if any Nigerian citizen was among the dead in the terror attack that took place in Nairobi Westage Mall last week, the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka on Friday September 27, 2013 disclosed that if not for a little luck he would have been among those who died at the mall.
 
Like the late Ghanaian poet, Professor Kofi Awoonor who died in the attack, Soyinka also revealed that he was invited to the Storymoja/ Hay Literature Festival, but fortunately he couldn’t attend because of other pressing engagements he had elsewhere.

The award winning and iconic writer also revealed that, considering his close relationship with Awoonor, he might have been at the same place with him and could have been shot as well.


According to him, he could have been splitting a bottle at the same time Kofi, watering hole in between events and at the end of each day.