Professor Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate, has said that he has never felt the need for religion.

During the public presentation of his two-volume collection of writings, Soyinka, who characterized himself as a mythologist, also declared that he does not worship deities, although believing that they are artistically real.

He said;  “Do I really need one (religion)? I have never felt I needed one.

“I am a mythologist. I believe that people have a right and cannot help creating mythologies around themselves, around their experiences about what they project from the inner recesses of their minds as answers to questions.

“And so I find nothing wrong with utilizing mythologies as part and parcel of my creative warehouse.

“But religion? No, I don’t worship any deity. But I consider deities as creatively real and therefore my companions in my journey in both the real world and the imaginative world.”