NewStats: 3,259,224 , 8,169,511 topics. Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025 at 11:10 AM 645v54

Carlyboi:
isnt he a nonagenarian yet?was thinking he is about 90 already

Should be in his mid 80's...

adedayourt:
see der coconut head. awon bookie

Don't mind them. Book. Book. Book everytime

Osagyefo98:
More like a writer true to her pen and a literature political professor pictured together.

Soyinka should just enter into politics and stop pretending. All his books are hardly more than 53 pages or thereabout.

Yet those 53 pages books won global price. What has your own one-thousand-paged book won? Nothing, abi? So, who is better between you and him?

Osagyefo98:
More like a writer true to her pen and a literature political professor pictured together.

Soyinka should just enter into politics and stop pretending. All his books are hardly more than 53 pages or thereabout.

Go write yours!

topstone4:


Yet those 53 pages books won global price. What has your own one-thousand-paged book won? Nothing, abi? So, who is better between you and him?

Ok. But the global price didnt conferred him as "The Greatest African Writer Of All Time"

Makuos19:

Ok. But the global price didnt confered him as "The Greatest African Writer Of All Time"

Good. But he is a Nobel Laurette.

On your own part, what are you? A nameless nairaland ranter, right?

eni4real:
Should be in his mid 80's...

oh ok

jadeliyi:
great minds that understand literature.

more like entitled niggaz who think they are hot sh!t when they are just...lucky

TSRC:

Chimamnda has probably done more globally than Soyinka ever did and is more known too.
And with lots Of contemporary awards.

Respect to the great man, but chimamanda is now the Queen of the jungle.

NONSENSE

Makuos19:

Ok. But the global price didnt conferred him as "The Greatest African Writer Of All Time"

HE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE THAT YOUR BITTER ACHEBE COULDN'T BE NOMINATED FOR AND YOU ARE HERE SAYING GREATEST OF IGBOLAND

topstone4:


Good. But he is a Nobel Laurette.

On your own part, what are you? A nameless nairaland ranter, right?

He is a Nobel Laurette. While Achebe is the Greatest African Writer Of All Time

Kennyswagz1:
E pain am.. chimamanda will not smell nobel prize in the next 100yrs

common bro, I'm Yoruba and I adore this lady. just like I do Achebe..this kinda comment is totally uncalled for,not Cool at all..you can just ignore some comment not to yr liking and move on as I ve learnt to do...she is a good writer and got great mind so i
do pray and hope she wins it someday too
tribalism is for small shallow mind..I don't engage in that anymore..if we say we're civilized, don't let anything stop us from continually displaying it..peace.

There is the most influential African woman...

Respect, Ma'am.

Guys u better use ur body well.. Can u see Wole Soyinka at 85. If u like continue distributing ur strength among girls, u go hear am at old age.

Kennyswagz1:
HE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE THAT YOUR BITTER ACHEBE COULDN'T BE NOMINATED FOR AND YOU ARE HERE SAYING GREATEST OF IGBOLAND

Deal with it

Makuos19:

Deal with it

Where is his Nobel prize.Lmao,no one gives a shit about meaningless titles

Makuos19:
Deal with it

take this nonsense to the trash bin

Andhe won nobel with! Get alife.
More like a writer true to her pen and a literature political professor pictured together.

Soyinka should just enter into politics and stop pretending. All his books are hardly more than 53 pages or thereabout.[/b][/quote]

ruffDiamond:
common bro, I'm Yoruba and I adore this lady. just like I do Achebe..this kinda comment is totally uncalled for,not Cool at all..you can just ignore some comment not to yr liking and move on as I ve learnt to do...she is a good writer and got great mind so i
do pray and hope she wins it someday too
tribalism is for small shallow mind..I don't engage in that anymore..if we say we're civilized, don't let anything stop us from continually displaying it..peace.

GET OUT 4RM HERE . IF YOU KNOW THE WAY THEY INSULT SOYINKA HERE, YOU WONT SAY THIS TRASH..

My tribalist self is confused

mu2sa2:
The way she snuggled up to him make we no hear ngbatee ngbatee later o, because the man still dey kampe, the grey hair is just for trademark purposes. Ah, viagra nko.

the hair is for trademark purposes, really? Wonders will never end!

STILESGANG:
Where is his Nobel prize.Lmao,no one gives a shit about meaningless titles

His nobel prize didnt make him the greatest in the field. Dont u get?

Nice to see this.Bigotry gets you nowhere.You don't see your help ing by because your blinded by bigotry.

Father and Daughter. Prolific writers! Nigeria and Africa are blessed to have this two.

From all indications they know and respect each other too well!!

They must have met severally in several fora!!

This is not the first nor the second time they are meeting each other!!

Makuos19:

He is a Nobel Laurette. While Achebe is the Greatest African Writer Of All Time

Both Achebe and Shoyinka have won something for themselves.

What have you ever won in your entire life wise from nairaland likes?

TSRC:

Really?
And yet many people know Achebe and they don't know Soyinka.

There are many Nobel laureates in Africa, but there is only one Achebe.

Vcblinks:
that book was so confusing,I hardly understood it.soyinkas writings are for PhD holders

You study Wole not read him

TSRC:

Really?
And yet many people know Achebe and they don't know Soyinka.

There are many Nobel laureates in Africa, but there is only one Achebe.

Abeg shutup how many people know toni Morrison yet she is a noble laureate

TSRC:

Even the oyibo that gave him the nobel prize call Achebe the father of African literature.
His books are read in any and every western country on earth as a reference point.

An Ethiopian politician just won the Nobel prize this month. It doesn't mean he and Achebe are now mates in this world.

The Ethopian won the Nobel prize for what? Why not compare Apple for Apple