NewStats: 3,262,913 , 8,178,508 topics. Date: Wednesday, 04 June 2025 at 03:53 AM 4w376v

BuhariAdvocate:
keep quiet so anyone ing Buhari and good governance is from north?

How I wish you understand the meaning of good governance.

SarkinYarki:
over 116 people have won the Nobel prize for literature including Bob Dylan the country musician !!!! so Wole Soyinka should stop disturbing like he is the first and last person to win it ..Its not a that much of a big deal jare

So why is it a mortal pain to Igbos that they will have to win such as a catch up to Yorubas?

StOla:


So why is it a mortal pain to Igbos that they will have to win such as a catch up to Yorubas?

Any Igbo writer will win one soon , just watch sir

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while Soyinka is more politics.

LuciferKoran:


*said.

This is exactly why I said you are not in a position to judge Achebe & Soyinka.
Stick to bomb-making & blade sharpening.



*spits

Osagyefo98:
Chinua achebe is true to his pen whille achebe is more politics.

Baba check wetin you write biko....

fergie001:

Baba check wetin you write biko....

Edit put and put soyinka at his right place.

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while soyinka is more of politics.

Thank God the Nobel Laurate was not given by the Nigerian Government.

These guys would have been shouting tribalism by now.

Brains aren't everything. In fact, in your case, they're nothing. So I will stop from here today.

LuciferKoran:


*said.

This is exactly why I said you are not in a position to judge Achebe & Soyinka.
Stick to bomb-making & blade sharpening.



*spits

Goke7:
some fellas are just educated illiterates e.g. Reno.

Soyinka has paid his dues, not many including those who are always using their ethnic bigotry to cast aspersions knew the efforts Prof Soyinka made to persuade the Govt back in the 60s to avert the bloody civil war.

It's high time folks are properly educated from the history books to give credit rightly where it belongs and stop exposing their high level of illiteracy, the fact that Soyinka never ed your favourite politician does not reduce or diminish his hard earned credentials and precious contributions to the project called' Nigeria'. Nigeria would have been a better place if we had more like him.

Soyinka was part of the Nzeogwu coup.

SarkinYarki:


Any Igbo writer will win one soon , just watch sir

And your grief will finally end that day?

Osagyefo98:





Edit put and put soyinka at his right place.

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while soyinka is more of politics.

Una 2 like quarrel for this NL

SLAP44:
In the end, Soyinka spoke so many words and ended up saying nothing in response to the issues raised.

Such an evasive character is not worthy of even the readers digest author of the week award.

he ended up not saying anything meaningful to you because you attended ariaria night school...you need help

SLAP44:
In the end, Soyinka spoke so many words and ended up saying nothing in response to the issues raised.

Such an evasive character is not worthy of even the readers digest author of the week award.

Simply tell us u dont know english

It is awesome to see that at this very old age of Sonyi, he still possesses this his ambiguous grammatical puff.

Achebe's simplicity in gush does not mean he lacked words to puff.

Although, Sonyi respected that in the above statement of his.

StOla:


And your grief will finally end that day?

I am tired of Soyinka behaving as if he is the custodian of Nobel prize for literature

babyfaceafrica:
he ended up not saying anything meaningful to you because you attended ariaria night school...you need help

Abi o jare!!!


The poor guy is a lost cause and thus beyond any iota of aid.

Seems Soyinka stylishly agreed with Reno.

Forget trying to use lexical callisthenics to hoodwink unwary folks...

The problem with Jonathan boys is that anybody that did not Jonathan in 2015 is evil and not good.They must attack him.

You are an intelligent fellow.... I ire your train of thought.. Enough said

StOla:
Why do people fail to learn that literature is not about Prose alone.

The 3 genres of literature are Prose(Novel), Drama(Play), and Poetry.

While Soyinka ticks the box in all, Achebe ticks only the Prose box.

While Soyinka is an acclaimed Playwright and Poet, Achebe is an acclaimed Novelist.

Soyinka won the Nobel for the dual reason of Drama and Poetry, and this much reason was stated in his award justification, as the reason for all other awardees are stated.




So why are people comparing an apple to an orange when the award for best fruit was given to an orange on the basis that for that years consideration, the sweetest orange was the decider?

Chai, see finishing .
Guy, I read it again. If Rhinocerous has any iota of shame he should neither eat nor drink for 3 days to appease his "ikenga" for this bashing he has unprovokingly and "mumuishly" invited upon himself.

tinsel:
The problem with Jonathan boys is that anybody that did not Jonathan in 2015 is evil and not good.They must attack him.

Bros, me thinks Reno is simply being real.

Did Achebe himself GEJ?

Have you forgotten that Achebe rejected a GCON national honour from GEJ's govt?
.

Why would anyone go back to 1986 to awaken a dead issue if not to stir trouble!

The same Omokiri that Fani-Kayode blasted for "Warri English"

Osagyefo98:
Sincerely speaking, soyinka didn't write anything.

All his 55 pages book is nothing but trash.

Sincerely speaking, you must think yourself more learned and intelligent than the Nobel Committee for Literature who picked Wole Soyinka over thousands of others.

Nigerians have this overbloated ego and false sense of importance. Small time you will say Einstein is trash and knows nothing in physics.

SarkinYarki:


I am tired of Soyinka behaving as if he is the custodian of Nobel prize for literature

Was it Soyinka that brought up the issue of a 20 something year Nobel price?

wirinet:

Sincerely speaking, you must think yourself more learned and intelligent than the Nobel Committee for Literature who picked Wole Soyinka over thousands of others.

Nigerians have this overbloated ego and false sense of importance. Small time you will say Einstein is trash and knows nothing in physics.

Afonja defending a 55 page book...lolzzzz

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while soyinka is more off politics.

SLAP44:
In the end, Soyinka spoke so many words and ended up saying nothing in response to the issues raised.

Such an evasive character is not worthy of even the readers digest author of the week award.

That's not Wole Soyinka.
He should have a verified Twitter handle

Osagyefo98:



Afonja defending a 55 page book...lolzzzz

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while achebe is more off politics.

All these people must be Afonjas then that nominated a 55 page book for Nobel Price;

1. of the Swedish Academy and of other
academies, institutions and societies which are
similar to it in construction and purpose;

2. Professors of literature and of linguistics at
universities and university colleges;

3. Previous Nobel Laureates in Literature;

4. Presidents of those societies of authors that are
representative of the literary production in their
respective countries.
- https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/

I still say it, you guys have chronic psychological issues, that is connected to the fear, envy and jealousy of Afonjas. You can't go a single day, sorry a single hour without thinking of Afonjas.

Osagyefo98:



Afonja defending a 55 page book...lolzzzz

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while achebe is more off politics.

really?

wirinet:



All these people must be Afonjas then that nominated a 55 page book for Nobel Price;

1. of the Swedish Academy and of other
academies, institutions and societies which are
similar to it in construction and purpose;

2. Professors of literature and of linguistics at
universities and university colleges;

3. Previous Nobel Laureates in Literature;

4. Presidents of those societies of authors that are
representative of the literary production in their
respective countries.
- https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/

I still say it, you guys have chronic psychological issues, that is connected to the fear, envy and jealousy of Afonjas. You can't go a single day, sorry a single hour without thinking of Afonjas.

A Nobel prize prisoner
Chinua achebe is true to his pen while soyinka is more of politics.