Millenial Challenges for the African Continent

Wole Soyinka writes:

It is the secular that unites, not divides, it is the secular that includes, not excludes, the secular is basically egalitarian, not selective, it is the secular that guarantees equality of space and opportunity between one individual and the next, irrespective of sex, ethnicity or religion even as it guarantees space and protection for the rival faiths that inhabit the nation space. The theocratic urge is, on the contrary, intolerant and stifling. Religion has been responsible for some of the worst civil atrocities that have been perpetrated in my own country, Nigeria, in peace time.