matrixme: I quite agree with the topic on this one. Achebe is not a progressive, rather a great literary icon.

Where is the Achebe Library or grant for young African writers of today? Where is the Chinua Achebe foundation for Peace and Reconciliation or HIV/AIDS research? Don't Nigeria or the Igbo people have enough vices on their own that he could have use his positive, prominent attention to confront?

Yes he excelled in Literature, yet probably the only person he may have mentored is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I don't think the literary chair is the best place to change the world positively. You either get up and start a revolution or take the Mother Theresa approach. Perhaps, Wole Soyinka understands this now.

matrixme:
I quite agree with the topic on this one. Achebe is not a progressive, rather a great literary icon.

Where is the Achebe Library or grant for young African writers of today? Where is the Chinua Achebe foundation for Peace and Reconciliation or HIV/AIDS research? Don't Nigeria or the Igbo people have enough vices on their own that he could have use his positive, prominent attention to confront?

Yes he excelled in Literature, yet probably the only person he may have mentored is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I don't think the literary chair is the best place to change the world positively. You either get up and start a revolution or take the Mother Theresa approach. Perhaps, Wole Soyinka understands this now.

ROSSIKE: ^^I actually sympathize a bit with your sentiments. I think Achebe was a bit too much of a pessimist where it concerned modern Nigeria. He failed to understand that developing nations, especially complex ones like Nigeria, need time to develop the institutions and even the culture required to create and sustain advanced societies. He had this naive idea that straight off from independence, we should have been on a one way trajectory to being the new Japan or USA, forgetting that those nations had several centuries of independence before getting where there are. Africans are not superhumans. The colonialists left us without a single proper university on the entire black continent right up till 1960 when they left (apart from in SA). How does such a continent develop into a world class place in a decade or two as Achebe was expecting? It was never going to happen. The coups, the corruption, the ineptitude etc were all very predictable growing pains of newly liberated nations that had been bastardized for centuries by rapacious, unscrupulous foreigners. We've actually come a long way if you look at it objectively. We've brought mass education to our people, which was denied us by the colonialists. We've built some notable infrastructure, and our economies are growing from strength to strength. So we're not standing still. Shame Achebe never found it in him to acknowledge that progress.. But we still honour him for his great works of literary genius which brought glory, international respect and honour to his fatherland and to the continent. His place is assured in the annals of great African heroes.

Eko Ile:


Funny enough, SW is not only the most peaceful and prosperous region in Nigeria, its where millions of your people call home and earn their daily bread far far away from their violent towns and villages where they get kidnapped, slaughtered and thrown in some osu river.

Dude, this is your sad reality and good news for the millions far and safe all over Yorubaland.

I know you people like to beat chest unnecessarily, but underneath your chest, its all empty and shallow because we are all Nigerians and we know all about your villages.


Abeg keep quiet and to drink some pure water...

bestview:

See this azz hole amala infested local champ. Fyi the least town in the SE is far more advanced and developed than all the towns in SW with the exception of lagos which is former capital of Nigeria and was developed by Igbos and Hausas.

Its only in the SW that one will still see mud houses in the state capital from abeokuta to ibadam to akure. The most unlivable part of Nigeria is SW

7842I:

Your messed up life is sweet to you, just like diya, thats why you ran away from the north and diya cried like a baby.

bongila:
Of all the dumb comments on this hatefilled thread,yours is the dumbest.You were obviously high on dry plantain leaves when you typed this!Idiota!

Mr. Globe:

you've clearly resorted to smoking your feaces. Yoruba are the punching bag of the north. you have been taking your time for thy kingdom come.

4chi:

You are absolutely correct on the fact that ashebe is nothing more than a ibo biafran. And that's all to him. So let the ibo biafran carry his crippled corpse and bury him in the evil forest like okonkwo his grandfather.

You are also absolutely correct that he doesn't owe yorubas any farthen, just like Awo did not owe biafrans any farthen by taking the most pragmatic decisions to end the Nigerian civil war quickly and bring your silly little republic to it's knees. One wonders then why ashebe was so bitter about that? I am sure he would do worse if he had the chance considering the volume of bitterness in his patently deranged psyche.

4chi:

Bongila of the smelly poosie, everybody dey talk you sef join, is it break time from your ashawo job?
Yes, i said it again, Awolowo at his ingenious best took the most pragmatic decision to deal with your stubborn fadas. Even the £20 shouldn't have been given to your broke a.rse forebears.you are a conquered tribe.live with it or jump and join your brethren in the ezu river! Mind you, the same scenario will repeat itself it you try any nzogbu,nzogbu nonsense again. Your last dance was reggae, this time around y'all be dancing Makossa!! Anuofia mongrels ....

4chi:

Bongila of the smelly poosie, everybody dey talk you sef join, is it break time from your ashawo job?
Yes, i said it again, Awolowo at his ingenious best took the most pragmatic decision to deal with your stubborn fadas. Even the £20 shouldn't have been given to your broke a.rse forebears.you are a conquered tribe.live with it or jump and join your brethren in the ezu river! Mind you, the same scenario will repeat itself it you try any nzogbu,nzogbu nonsense again. Your last dance was reggae, this time around y'all be dancing Makossa!! Anuofia mongrels ....

Dede1:


I wonder if you understood the meaning of word – progressive. With no pun intended, I must say your post reeks of ignorance. You are one of many Nigerians who think that alms giving by rogue politicians is progressive. What a misplaced priority. Every revolution known to mankind has started through the power of pen, olodo.

alj harem: ^^^^^

What state are you from because these bigots think you are yoruba.

alj harem: ^^^^^

What state are you from because these bigots think you are yoruba.

bolaino: I'm from Delta state my good man, honestly I never expected the answers I got from these ibo people, why are they so full of hatred?

Dede1:

Is it not a matter of deliberate idiocy to arrogate to oneself the knowledge of what another mere mortal thinks?

bolaino: I'm from Delta state my good man, honestly I never expected the answers I got from these ibo people, why are they so full of hatred?

alj harem:

Dede, you are never honest with your assertions. The question is simple and does not require any defensive insult.

udezue: Achebe will be buried in Igbo land . Nobody told you where to bury that bloody bastarddd Awolowo so please don't tell where to bury our own. You all can go to hell

4words: chinua achebe is dead yet still causing controversies. Hmmm what a man, even in is death.

gbaky_floor:

You see if any body is write something negative about Nnamdi Azikiwe- Most Igbos won't bat an eye lid because they have no atom of respect for Azikiwe. He is 'not regarded as a man of the people' by Igbos.
it is yorubas and northerners that admire him


Igbos know Azikiwe is corrupt, why else did he support Nigeria during the civil war? He was as corrupt as Nigerian leaders then and now. If you had a grasp of Igbo history you would know that we have little/no regard for Zik
.

Dede1:

On the 34th page of the thread you started, you are still ashamed of the ethnic identity of your forbearers. I must say that such single act speaks volumes about a character of person you really are, olodo.

ngozievergreen: Ofemmanus, we are used to u. U have not said anything new and this is d 34th page, d same old rantings.
Infact, we would have been surprised if u open ur oily mouths to praise good tnz.
D soyinka u ppl are talking abt, wat did he do for Nig? And dnt tell me abt those dumb placards he carries abt? And how have those placards transformed nigeria to small london?
Was it not Achebe that wrote 'the trouble with Nigeria?' dat book said it all. Did u listen to his speech on y he rejected national awards? He wrote directly to each president that bothered to give him an award stating wat dey shd do. For Nig. Not placard dat am not sure the president will even see.
Sb mentioned Soyinka was once jailed for activism, i tell ya, if anybody had attempted to try dat on Sacred Achebe, even the U.S will put that person in their terrorist list.
Nobel or not, Achebe is the father of African literature according to the whites.