CLIMATE OF FEAR BY WOLE SOYINKA

'The tendency to eradicate all vestiges of humanity of others is crucial to the project of domination or diminution of the status of others and by domination, I do not refer simply to military or colonial domination, but to ideological, religious, cultural and allied forms of subjugation. At the heart of it lies intolerance, which is as much a child of ignorance, as it is the fear of external knowledge....'
In this updated edition of Climate of Fear, based on the 2004 BBC Reith Lectures, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, further explores the many facets of fear which includes the extensive and pervasive hold of religion and spirituality; fear spawned by intolerance which in turn is birthed by ignorance and the similarities between these and other forms of despotism.