Gerd Meuer mit Nobelpreisträger Wole Soyinka
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TO WHO IT MAY CONCERN:

It has come to my knowledge that GERD MEUER is embarked on a massive project of systematizing and digitalizing an archive of materials in diverse media on the Nigerian Nobel Laureate in Literature, Wole Soyinka.
This project deserves every institutional and financial assistance possible. The archives cover materials in the print medium, in audio tapes, in pictures, newspaper clips and personal correspondence with Soyinka covering more than four decades of the author's activities.
This is simply one of the richest and most valuable archives on Soyinka. And nobody in Europe has greater authority to do this project on Wole Soyinka's archives than Gerd Meuer. Thus, the project has my total and enthusiastic endorsement and I hope that some worthy and enlightened institution will step forward to back the project.

Sincerely,
Biodun Jeyifo 

Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature 
and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University