ACM10: @Johnson,
can you quote the page from the book "Five Majors? I have it here with me.

Ola Johnson:
Search it yourself, where he described those that were killed.

Aigbofa:

I will call him the father of mediocrity in Nigeria.

ngozievergreen: It doesnt mean Awolowo didnt do all he could to be president , yet no way. Tried beibg anti-igbo, no way. Tried propaganda against d north, na dat one evn make him drink ota pia pia.

So , d thread don derail to Awolowo tnz? Achebe, na u biko!

4chi:


and agbalagbi 1st of African literature...happy now??

Same accolade must however be extended to all other one hit wonders like nico mbarga who failed to replicate his "sweet mother" hit. He is hereby declared the forefather of African highlife

and papa fryo whose "denge pose" still resonates as the grandfather of African reggae. So tan?

Ola Johnson:
Search it yourself, where he described those that were killed.

eagle,eye:


I thought Ola and some others said that the "Father" of anything does not exist.
When Igbos start claiming that Ironsi is the Father of Something now (as you put it, "mediocrity" you will people will start dragging that one again.
Osu abughi anu elu, obughi anu ala (the bat does not claim to belong to the air or land).
Abeg I tire today. Achebe don die and Soyinka will not remain on earth forever, but both have made their Marks. So therefore make I go sleep and regain my strenght so that when am old, others will be arguing over my achievement of non -achievement.

ACM10:

One of the issues I have with posters here bothers on integrity. Posters here are fond of making a non-existent quotes to win an argument. Don't doubt me, I have my personal copy of Ben Gbulie's book here with. Just direct me to the page.

Ola Johnson:
I still stand on my position, others may shift grounds: There is nothing like father of African literature.

Ola Johnson:
If you had started searching you would have made progress. Search.

eagle,eye:

There is a difference ohh.
The title says "Father of MODERN African Literature", ehhhn?

eagle,eye:

Ola the onus is on you to quote..... and not for him to search.

Ola Johnson:
You can't confuse me, none exists.

ACM10: @Johnson,
can you quote the page from the book "Five Majors? I have it here with me.

eagle,eye:

Ok.
But the " Father of other things" apart from Literature do exist?

ACM10:

Mr Johnson, I have already established that you are biased. Don't make me question your integrity. Respond to the above.

Ola Johnson:
You've said somewhere that it doesn't exist. Now you are saying I should give you the page. If you have searched, as you want to make me believe and can't find it, let it slide.

eagle,eye:

No. Iro ni. Mba nu. Why should he let it slide? Ola no go fall my hand ohhh.

Ola Johnson:
Make I no fall your hand, right? Who tell you to carry your hand up?
This thread should not be derailed. We are still on CA.

nolongtin: Also:
Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu
Before The War; Genocide, And Other Issues

.Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa’s most well known
novelist, Chinua Achebe, as a storyteller who earned global celebration,
adding, however, that those describing Achebe as “the father of African
literature” were ignorant.

In a wide-ranging interview with SaharaReporters, Soyinka paid tribute
to the late novelist who died on March 21, 2013 at 82. Soyinka, who won
the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, also spoke on his personal
relationship with Achebe and other Nigerian writers; his regrets about
Achebe’s last book, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra;
and his attempt to talk the late Biafran leader, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu,
out of fighting a war. Soyinka also answered questions about Heinemann’s
African Writers Series and scolded “clannish” and “opportunistic
hagiographers” fixated on the fact that Achebe never won the Nobel
Prize.

Ola Johnson:
"Major-General Johnson Thompson Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi was the General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Army. A hard-drinking, slow-speaking introvert who had risen from the ranks, and had been trained at Eaton Hall and Camberley Staff College, he was however considered both inept and inefficient-hardly the calibre of officer to command an army. In fact, the coup planners considered him unfit to command even a funeral detail". Those were the words Ben Gbulie in his book, Nigeria's Five Majors, used to describe your "excellent soldier".

Ola Johnson: This thread must not derail. We are still on CA. Meanwhile, CA, rest in peace.

eagle,eye:

Am still tired ohhhhh......
but my mind tell me say Awolowo fit be the "Father of Modern Ota Pia Pia"
Ngo, how you see am.

rhymz: @ACM
You just got that flippant tribalist cornered, misquoting a book that any serious minded observer can easily look up and make a mess of his bigoted claims. These guyz' will do anything to downplay Achebe's work, reach and influnce yet they are quick to play up Soyinka's relatively limited influence, reach and likeability.

ACM10:

Dishonest Ola Johnson, provide the page in Ben Gbulie's "Five Majors" for the above quote?