Services of international mediators will be sought to mediate between the Nigerian government and militants to resolve lingering crisis in the Niger Delta region.

The Niger Delta Avengers and other militants in recent time have been bombing oil installations in the Niger Delta, thus, crippling the economy of the nation.

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka said this at Westminster, London, during the launch of two major African literature, saying all hope was not lost in Africa notwithstanding challenges of nation-building and difficult economic situations.

Soyinka said the current violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and the blowing up of oil installation by some militants was an example of such economic frustration and a feeling of inequality among people who suffered most from the effect of extractive economies.

The Nobel laureate said an international observatory post of which he would be involved had held preliminary discussions with President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the militants to resolve the crisis in the region.

Speaking at the event, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II expressed an optimistic view of Africa’s ability to overcome obstacles that lead to better democratic outcomes and engineer economic transformation of the continent.

Osei Tutu told who spoke on the topic: “Africa’s Democratic Path and the Search for Economic Transformation,” explained that stability and planning for development predicated by 16 presidential and parliamentary elections in Africa alone this year was an encouraging step of consolidating peace.

Lord Paul Boateng of the House of Lords and of Ghanaian descent praised the Asantehene for his traditional leadership which he said fits finely into modernity and in particular his focus on education and agriculture.

The event was also a literary fanfare which saw the launch of two books: “May Their Shadows Never Shrink- Wole Soyinka and the Oxford Professorship of Poetry,” edited by Ivor Agyeman-Duah, a Ghanaian author and Lucy Newlyn, a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and “All the Good Things Around Us- An Anthology of African Short Stories,” edited by Agyeman-Duah.