chiover: One day one day na hiroshima bomb go drop for north including abuja den we go count losses

Burger01: He died because it's time to 'die'.. There is a time for everything in life... A time to live and a time to die, a time to laugh and a time to cry, a time to fight and a time to make peace, a time to 'integrate' and a time to 'disintegrate'.....

donroxy: tolexander....no mind them all.....just ignore.....!!!!


Whats so bad in asking for source to an article.......and the source was later added through ''modify button''....... So una no get better contribution to the Op but some one who requested for source.......!!!


RIP to Achebe....Longevity and Prosperity to Soyinka!!!!

confusion247:
With this comment, you have acknowledged your foolishness. Sorry about your foolish life.

AK 48: true talk,we have to rise again these babaric act.
if a man slaps u and you dont want him to slap u again 2mao,what do u do?

leave him n run away or retaliate with both hands?

my signature is not there for fun.

Burger01:
Please, don't haul abusive words at the guy.. @all, initially the topic the OP posted was without a 'Source'.. The poster "tolexander' had to comment to that effect. Thereafter, 'Source' was included in the Topic. I believe the OP should have been diligent enough to apologise and accept there was no 'Source' in his initial topic before amendment.. There was no source at the time I made my comment... So free guy......

[size=14pt]Chinua Achebe's death: we have lost a brother - Wole Soyinka and JP Clark[/size]

Chinua was a man of resilient will. His works are testimony to the domination of the human spirit over the forces of repression

guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 March 2013 19.23 GMT

For us, the loss of Chinua Achebe is, above all else, intensely personal. We have lost a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer and a doughty fighter. Of the "pioneer quartet" of contemporary Nigerian literature, two voices have been silenced – one, of the poet Christopher Okigbo, and now, the novelist Chinua Achebe. It is perhaps difficult for outsiders of that intimate circle to appreciate this sense of depletion, but we take consolation in the young generation of writers to whom the baton has been passed, those who have already creatively ensured that there is no break in the continuum of the literary vocation.

We need to stress this at a critical time of Nigerian history, where the forces of darkness appear to overshadow the illumination of existence that literature represents. These are forces that arrogantly pride themselves implacable and brutal enemies of what Chinua and his pen represented, not merely for the African continent, but for humanity. Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua's people in Kano, only a few days ago, hastened the fatal undermining of that resilient will that had sustained him so many years after his crippling accident.

No matter the reality, after the initial shock, and a sense of abandonment, we confidently assert that Chinua lives. His works provide their enduring testimony to the domination of the human spirit over the forces of repression, bigotry and retrogression.

Dahbutter: Though I very much doubt the fact that Chinua's death was caused by d death of ibo folks in Kano, I still find it confusing how a man of such repute could be an unrepentant and indefatigable tribalist to the core!

Many people from all over Nigeria died by the blast in Kano and we all know it, Boko Haram even once attacked some ot their traditional rulers and leaders so how dumb is it for us to claim only a particular sect of the country is being hunted to be killed in the North?

Achebe was a great man but I must admit he erred when he focused efforts on heating up things through the assertions in his last book which has further created great enmity amongst some tribes in Naija. Hence I really doubt if this occurence could Kill him as he should have expected it as a retaliation over his write up.

RIP Prof Chinua Achebe

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If the above list of some victims of Kano bombing is anything to talk about, it could be remotely entertained that the deaths of Achebe’s people, Nigerians, may have contributed to his death.

negosus: Wole Soyinka and JP Clark, just said exactly what I thought about his death.

ndu_chucks:

To say the shock of Kano bombing killed Achebe, is prime shame and disgrage.

nagoma:

A great shame and a disgraceful act. Soyinka may have written some good stories in English but he has never been constructive , once a cultist always a cultist. He is a tribalist and a bigot who has never seen anything good coming out of the north. How can even a subnormal cretin say that an 83 year old geriatric terminally Ill with bronchopneumonia in hospital abroad will even know that there was a bomb in kano and because 3 Igbos and 17 NORTHERNERS were killed he went into shock? Bloody mischievous old haters , may they die of shock both of them Clark and soyinka - electric shock if possible.

~Bluetooth:


He should have died during the civil war when oju-iku killed over 2 million iboes.



Nonsense

nagoma:

A great shame and a disgraceful act. Soyinka may have written some good stories in English but he has never been constructive , once a cultist always a cultist. He is a tribalist and a bigot who has never seen anything good coming out of the north. How can even a subnormal cretin say that an 83 year old geriatric terminally Ill with bronchopneumonia in hospital abroad will even know that there was a bomb in kano and because 3 Igbos and 17 NORTHERNERS were killed he went into shock? Bloody mischievous old haters , may they die of shock from a 440KVA tension both of them Clark and soyinka - electric shock if possible.

Andre Uweh: Please guys stop insulting Soyinka.