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Sirphem:
Chinua achebe shouldn't be left behind

You people and ur complex. The guy u mentioned said 'only Nobel laureate in nigeria'. What does chinua Achebe have to do with this??

ilyasom:
Yoruba amaka

Lmao.

Nigeria was on course to be a great nation until we started voting dropouts, rascals, criminals, forgers, and transmission elements into power!

I want to vote KINGSLEY MOGHALU as president so we can re-start as a nation.

I say no to all the grossly re-cycled bandits who are never tired of wanting to come back to power!

That is one of the ways to immortalise him the only Nigerian to win the world recognised Nobel Prize .

amaniro:
chimmamanda $achebe$soyinka are Nigerian fortune

Who is Chimamanda ? You are very funny

Trust us. We go still abandon am

Naijaphobia:
Their genelation is lubbish...They should just leave Nigelia alone

Hello there Mr. New generation.Their generation won the only Nobel prize ever in nigera, a feat still a millennia away from your's. Their generation wrote things fall apart, a book that still has it's content been quoted by your own mediocre generation.

Their generation ruled yesterday, they are still ruling your own docile generation today.

The only thing your generation is good at is fighting in defence of their generation and wasting your time on nairaland.
mtceww

adelawn:
Bros, Femi Adesina was also a Nigerian that won the award in Agriculture

Lol. I'm your bid to underrate the prestigious Global award (which revered Nigerian literary giants like Chinua Achebe coveted) , you are comparing it with agricultural thing.

Not only that, you exposed your ignorance by naming the recipient as Femi Adesina.
For your info, awards are in different fields of life -Agric, Medicine, Technology etc, but this one stands out globally. It's beyond the stupid Nigeria bigotry that's killing your thinking.

klas:




You mean Akinwunmi Adesina? The former Agric Minister and now President of ADB.

Femi Adesina is Special Adviser on Media to Buhari. He sure didn’t win anything except two chieftaincy titles in the East.

You wicked OOOoo...!!!

IamaNigerianGuy:


Who is Chimamanda ? You are very funny

She is a global sweet heart dear, incase you don't know her. She's internationally recognised than your Mideocre ass. Hater

amaniro:

She is a global sweet heart dear, incase you don't know her. She's internationally recognised than your Mideocre ass. Hater

I am not a 'hater'.
Chimamanda is a competent writer - no more. Her fame rests more on her social views than her literary accomplishments.
She is​ not of the category of Wole Soyinka, Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel okara, Christopher Okigbo j.m Coetzee, Naguib Mafoutz... but how could you be expected to know this ?

So my dear, that charge of mediocrity actually applies to you. Stop kissing her arse and look critically at her work.

IamaNigerianGuy:


I am not a 'hater'.
Chimamanda is a competent writer - no more. Her fame rests more on her social views than her literary accomplishments.
She is​ not of the category of Wole Soyinka, Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel okara, Christopher Okigbo j.m Coetzee, Naguib Mafoutz... but how could you be expected to know this ?

So my dear, that charge of mediocrity actually applies to you. Stop kissing her arse and look critically at her work.

I had hope on you to be more sophisticated, I feel soyinka is overated jare. They say "the young shall grow".How many of those people you mentioned have met Hillary Clinton..... that's by the way. She will be greater than then, so sweet heart stop masturbating on matter face your life. Thanks.

amaniro:

I had hope on you to be more sophisticated, I feel soyinka is overated jare. They say "the young shall grow".How many of those people you mentioned have met Hillary Clinton..... that's by the way. She will be greater than then, so sweet heart stop masturbating on matter face your life. Thanks.

Your reply indicates the quality of dolt it has been my misfortune to engage in conversation.
Thanks as well.

IamaNigerianGuy:


Your reply indicates the quality of dolt it has been my misfortune to engage in conversation.
Thanks as well.

meaning of dolt: a stupid person, I don't see how it fits your reply. Be forming English oga because it's due to the level of absurdity and irrationality that made me reluctantly reply this troll I just wanted to vindicate everything. But ave seen it caused a catastrophic scenario and from here Amma Holt this conversation.

amaniro:

I had hope on you to be more sophisticated, I feel soyinka is overated jare. They say "the young shall grow".How many of those people you mentioned have met Hillary Clinton..... that's by the way. She will be greater than then, so sweet heart stop masturbating on matter face your life. Thanks.

Dude, this is really weird. Hillary Clinton You shouldn't be saying stuffs like these on public forums.

Crack me up tho', Hillary Clinton!!!! FFS

jargo89:
Dude, this is really weird. Hillary Clinton You shouldn't be saying stuffs like these on public forums.

Crack me up tho', Hillary Clinton!!!! FFS

Mideocre. Shouldn't be making fun of people that ave achieved greater highest than you

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amaniro:


Mideocre. Shouldn't be making fun of people that ave achieved greater highest than you

It shouldnt take much intelligence to know i wasnt making fun of peoplw who ave "achieved greater highest than i have" (whatever that means); as I am pretty sure Hillary hasnt said or done anything funny. Instead you have.

Cos few things are more ludicrous than comparing Chiamanda Adichie with true greats because she has been in the company of Hillary Clinton. I dont know how old you are, but that is truly a bad reflection of your inteligence. Apologies.

uniquetechng:
No,
but the world felt he deserved and should have been awarded even in death.
he won every single award in literature with the exception of the Noble Prize.

Achebe was great but you cannot compare him with Soyinka. The best of Achebe is "things fall apart " but you can not really point to best of Soyinka because all his books are good, beside Achebe was a novelist while Soyinka is all rounder; novelist playlist, poetry etc.

Johnboom:
Achebe was great but you cannot compare him with Soyinka. The best of Achebe is "things fall apart " but you can not really point to best of Soyinka because all his books are good, beside Achebe was a novelist while Soyinka is all rounder; novelist playlist, poetry etc.

Then you know little about African literature, Achebe is considered as the greatest writer in history of African literature and the West robbed him off his Noble Prize.
TFA remains the greatest book written by African, translated in over 80 languages.

soyinka started his lecturing carrier in U.I
majority don't know that one of the reasons he left U.I was because he was denied professorship.He likes to be identified with OAU than U.I

uniquetechng:
Then you know little about African literature, Achebe is considered as the greatest writer in history of African literature and the West robbed him off his Noble Prize.
TFA remains the greatest book written by African, translated in over 80 languages.

Achebe was not even nominated in the first place!

by the way, literature is beyond TFA,best selling books and novels.Wole soyinka writes prose,drama and poems.He is a stage actor and director.He is the Shakespeare of his time.

MENTION ONE DRAMA WROTE BY ACHEBE

SECONDLY,DO YOU KNOW NOBEL PRIZE NOMINEES ARE NOMINATED BY PAST WINNERS?

WHENEVER WOLE SOYINKA NAME IS MENTIONED,SOME PEOPLE WILL START TO FILL INFERIOR AND START SHOUTING ACHEBE.

Will like to see his structures(which will serve as pictures) of his excerpts from - Chinwe Achebes's -There was a country!

Great Man!

Basic123:

Achebe was not even nominated in the first place!

by the way, literature is beyond TFA,best selling books and novels.Wole soyinka writes prose,drama and poems.He is a stage actor and director.He is the Shakespeare of his time.

MENTION ONE DRAMA WROTE BY ACHEBE

SECONDLY,DO YOU KNOW NOBEL PRIZE NOMINEES ARE NOMINATED BY PAST WINNERS?

The nomination process is biased, till this day Achebe remains the greatest storyteller and writer on African literature.

Basic123:
WHENEVER WOLE SOYINKA NAME IS MENTIONED,SOME PEOPLE WILL START TO FILL INFERIOR AND START SHOUTING ACHEBE.

Funny enough I am not even from the east but an ardent fan of literature.

Red rug everywhere,ahoy matter.

uniquetechng:
The nomination process is biased, till this day Achebe remains the greatest storyteller and writer on African literature.

Yes, Achebe was a good story teller. Why can't you understand that winning the NP goes beyond just being a good story teller.

It's a good one. We need to give honour to our icons-history. Pls, someone should also do such for Chief Awolowo's house at Ibadan.

Trexnemesis:


Yes, Achebe was a good story teller. Why can't you understand that winning the NP goes beyond just being a good story teller.

hahahahahahaa Achebe was and still the best writer and poet to come out of Africa, the only thing Soyinka have an edge over Achebe is play writing.
Winning or being nominated for the Noble Prize doesn't make you the best, if believe it then you will as well believe than Chi Adichie is better than Achebe.
The world refers to Achebe as the " father of African literature " for a reason.

uniquetechng:
The nomination process is biased, till this day Achebe remains the greatest storyteller and writer on African literature.

inferiority complex!

MENTION ONE DRAMA WRITTEN BY ACHEBE!

literature is beyond poems and prose's.

wole is all rounder,he will even act his books and dramas for you on stage.Wole soyinka is just like Shakespeare