[quote author=benELOHIM7 post=49802107]Reasons why you shouldnt compare wole to achebe:
1. Wole is more of a poet than a novelist whereas achebe is strictly a novelist
2. Wole wrote to soothe the white man while achebe was keen on upholding his cultural heritage and wittingly rubbishing the white man's ways.
3. Wole was awarded a prestigious momentary award but achebe....the name achebe is already on its way to the minds of generations unborn.

[/quotemr man stop talking trash WS WON THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS PRICE IN LITERATURE .he scored winning goals in all the department of literature. Someone is a prof of mathematics and you are saying he cannot do multiplication but he can do addition. Wake up my friend and stop been a compound fool.

gunther6:


Bitch you mistake me for your father, I stunt where your likes can't smell, keep taking selfie in a car that isn't yours. boorish halfwit

so obvious your dumbness is juxtaposing with your stupidi''ty

Niyinficient:
Chimamanda a very good writer...but always tilting towards tribal sentiments. I love her works tho.

I will always pick Achebe and Soyinka over her!

I seriously don't understand the emboldened and i think you don't either

skarlett:


I seriously don't understand the emboldened and i think you don't either

Lady, ar u trying to b funny by saying I don't understand d meaning of my own comment? If the concept is too complex and complicated for u comprehend, jst let me know, I will break it down for u.

NairalandGod:

y

You are very ignorant. Wole Soyinka was/is more traditional than Achebe. Wole is a pure traditionalist. His patron god is Ogun. His first son bears Olaokun. One of his daughters bear Moremi. All his children bear deep traditional names.

Now, to his work. With books like Lion and the Jewel, A Dance of the Forest, Death and the King's Horseman and many other plays with deep Yoruba myths (including his translation of one of DO Fagunwa's books), I dare to say that Wole Soyinka is more traditional than Achebe. The fact that Soyinka's style is poetic and his command of English has no comparison in Africa (Something the Nobel committee attested to) does not mean he writes to soothe the white man. In Lion and the Jewel, Wole Soyinka made Tradition to triumph over Westernization. A Dance of the Forest and Death and the King's Horseman have the underlying theme of the Yoruba royalty practise of burying a king with a subject. Most of Soyinka's works are either composed around deep Yoruba myths or are political satires. King Babu, for instance, was written to spite Sani Abacha. A Play of Giants was used to spite Idi Amin Dada of Uganda. The Jero's Play was an attack on religious conmen/fraudsters. It was also an attack on our military men who left the barracks and became desk generals. Most of Soyinka's other works are deeply philosophical. Talk of the Road and Madmen and Specialists. It is wrong for anyone who doesn't know a thing about Soyinka's unique literature to say trash about him. This is not about ethnicity but craft.

You said Achebe rubbished the white man bla bla bla. In and with what book did he do that? And you said Soyinka writes to soothe the white man. Please, cite a title by Soyinka where he soothed the white man. I have read most of Soyinka's plays. The man has no comparisons in African Literature. Achebe's simplicity or the success of his Things Fall Apart does not make him greater than Soyinka.

As for the Nobel Prize, it is not a yardstick foyr measuring the greatness of a writer but I do not like that people rubbish this award because Achebe never won it. It is very simple, Achebe never won it because he never deserved it. Writing simple novels or being a good storyteller isn't enough. You have to be consistent. After Arrow of God (Which I think is even greater than Things Fall Apart), Achebe became empty. His last novel was published in 1988 and Achebe never wrote another. Look at the case of Alice Munro. She won it at her old age. She kept on publishing major quality works. The Nobel Prize is not an award for a single book. Although Hemingway won it majorly for his The Old man and the Sea, he had written great novels along the line. Even if Achebe were still to be alive, he would never be as eligible as the Distinguished professor Ngugi Wa Thiong'O.

What else can I say? U av said it all.

Achebe wrote there was a country before he passed on.

I read someone saying Yoruba pple are supporting WS cos off competition against Igbos, it's so sad dat tribalism has beclouded our rationality. All Soyinka and several writers tormented the Whites with their writings with Soyinka being more consistent via his poems and frequent plays.

NairalandGod:

y

You are very ignorant. Wole Soyinka was/is more traditional than Achebe. Wole is a pure traditionalist. His patron god is Ogun. His first son bears Olaokun. One of his daughters bear Moremi. All his children bear deep traditional names.

Now, to his work. With books like Lion and the Jewel, A Dance of the Forest, Death and the King's Horseman and many other plays with deep Yoruba myths (including his translation of one of DO Fagunwa's books), I dare to say that Wole Soyinka is more traditional than Achebe. The fact that Soyinka's style is poetic and his command of English has no comparison in Africa (Something the Nobel committee attested to) does not mean he writes to soothe the white man. In Lion and the Jewel, Wole Soyinka made Tradition to triumph over Westernization. A Dance of the Forest and Death and the King's Horseman have the underlying theme of the Yoruba royalty practise of burying a king with a subject. Most of Soyinka's works are either composed around deep Yoruba myths or are political satires. King Babu, for instance, was written to spite Sani Abacha. A Play of Giants was used to spite Idi Amin Dada of Uganda. The Jero's Play was an attack on religious conmen/fraudsters. It was also an attack on our military men who left the barracks and became desk generals. Most of Soyinka's other works are deeply philosophical. Talk of the Road and Madmen and Specialists. It is wrong for anyone who doesn't know a thing about Soyinka's unique literature to say trash about him. This is not about ethnicity but craft.

You said Achebe rubbished the white man bla bla bla. In and with what book did he do that? And you said Soyinka writes to soothe the white man. Please, cite a title by Soyinka where he soothed the white man. I have read most of Soyinka's plays. The man has no comparisons in African Literature. Achebe's simplicity or the success of his Things Fall Apart does not make him greater than Soyinka.

As for the Nobel Prize, it is not a yardstick foyr measuring the greatness of a writer but I do not like that people rubbish this award because Achebe never won it. It is very simple, Achebe never won it because he never deserved it. Writing simple novels or being a good storyteller isn't enough. You have to be consistent. After Arrow of God (Which I think is even greater than Things Fall Apart), Achebe became empty. His last novel was published in 1988 and Achebe never wrote another. Look at the case of Alice Munro. She won it at her old age. She kept on publishing major quality works. The Nobel Prize is not an award for a single book. Although Hemingway won it majorly for his The Old man and the Sea, he had written great novels along the line. Even if Achebe were still to be alive, he would never be as eligible as the Distinguished professor Ngugi Wa Thiong'O.

What else can I say? U av said it all.

Achebe wrote there was a country before he passed on.

I read someone saying Yoruba pple are supporting WS cos of competition against Igbos, it's so sad dat tribalism has beclouded our rationality. All Soyinka and several writers tormented the Whites with their writings with Soyinka being more consistent via his poems and frequent plays.

NairalandGod:


Honestly, they don't read well before coming here to talk like an authority. Imagine his puerile argument against Wole Soyinka.

Pls do u have any D.O FAGUNWA OR ACHEBE BOOKS IN PDF FORMAT ??.

2odd:
Pls do u have any D.O FAGUNWA OR ACHEBE BOOKS IN PDF FORMAT ??.

No, bro.

I think it is Adichie.

Meanwhile those who had read "The African Child" by Camara Laye may find this interesting.

https://www.nairaland.com/10200/saddest-love-story-camara-laye

Rapuru14:

Can you remember who authored the work?

honestly I can't because back when I read it , d book was without d cover page . pls Just gimme a name n I'll Google it up n search for it. Tnks bro