The Nobel prize for literature won by Wole Soyinka can no doubt be classified as a monumental fraud, obtained by string pulling and sentiments.

As you may know, the famous writer and arguably the father of modern literature in the person of Chinua Achebe, of blessed memories, was on the nomination list for the Nobel prize that year and was denied him by politics and overhyping of less deserving contender, Wole Soyinka.

In my opinion, if an individual were to be given such an elevated award he must have been at the apex of the field of study. If this is taken into due consideration by those who would question the veracity of this article, then, can such person tell the public which of Wole Soyinka's phantom books outshines Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart, Anthill of the savannah, Arrow of God, No longer at ease, There was a country in terms of sales and ratings. Most of Chinua Achebe's book have international accolades with best seller and all there is. At best, Wole Soyinka's works can be compared to those of Ngozi Chimamanda Adiche, an eloquent writer, best known for her books: "Purple hibiscus" and "Half of a yellow sun".

Jealousy.. is the root of all hatred...

@Op, what even brought this issue cos the man has been silent lately?

YonkijiSappo:
Jealousy.. is the root of all hatred...

Answer the question from the excerpt

In my opinion, if an individual were to be given such an elevated award he must have been at the apex of the field of study. If this is taken into due consideration by those who would question the veracity of this article, then, can such person tell the public which of Wole Soyinka's phantom books outshines Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart, Anthill of the savannah, Arrow of God, No longer at ease, There was a country in terms of sales and ratings

Neoguru6:
Answer the question from the excerpt

All I see is ......

Broda no be Nigeria dey give am the award o. So how do politics come to play? Despite the fact that I respect Chinua Achebe sometimes the way you guys hype him someone will think he is better than Shakespeare.

Saecula:
@Op,
what even brought this issue cos the man has been silent lately?

An argument from https://www.nairaland.com/3745332/no-us-study-ever-said/2

YonkijiSappo:


All I see is ......

If you wont answer the question then swerve.

Neoguru6:
If you wont answer the question then swerve.

Kontinuee wallowing in your Jealousy!

Soyinka was a wonderful Novelist, a prolific poet and a Talented Playwright
All in one...

The wheel chair writer from the land of red mud never achieved what Soyinka achieved and no one from your gully eroded land can.

Bunch of hateful set of people They hate everything and anything. I am not sure they do not even hate God Himself.

Ozid:
Broda no be Nigeria dey give am the award o. So how do politics come to play? Despite the fact that I respect Chinua Achebe sometimes the way you guys hype him someone will think he is better than Shakespeare.

There what is called recommendation.

YonkijiSappo:


Kontinuee wallowing in your Jealousy!

If you asking a simple and logical question is termed jelousy, then afonjas need to go back to school because free education didnt cover that.

papparatzzi2013:
The wheel chair writer from the land of red mud never achieved what Soyinka and no one from your gully eroded land can.

Bunch of hateful set of people They hate everything and anything. I am not sure they do not even hate God Himself.

E pain am

Neoguru6:
There what is called recommendation.

Recommendation in what sense? Are you saying Wole Soyinka wasn't recommended for such prestigious award? When you talk about African novels/proverb you will give it to Achebe but if you're talking about the blending of both African culture with d western literary style, Wole Soyinka is that African writer that combines both together.

Truly, Igbos always cry! It's in their DNA to cry and play the victim card always. Everybody is against them. Even the Noble committee denied Achebe the Noble price because he's Ibo.

If Achebe gets to read this thread, he will curse the OP from his grave for bringing ridicule to his name.

The one and the only reason why you people can not and won't progress is the fact you people are saddled and preoccupied with low self-esteem, the need to see hatred and competition where it doesn't exist and also vain and meaningless sense of superiority when in fact realities on the ground says no.


The fact that you always have to beat your chest and remind other people that you are better than other people means you are not because like they say, empty calabash makes the most noise.

YonkijiSappo:


Kontinuee wallowing in your Jealousy!

Soyinka was a wonderful Novelist, a prolific poet and a Talented Playwright
All in one...

I asked a simple question and you began to give me google search?

Neoguru6:
I asked a simple question and you began to give me google search?

That is not google search mumu,
That is from Nobelprize.org

The website of the Nobel institutin itself
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/
(lists all the nobel winners for literature, and their strong points/reasons why)

Jealousy Is truly a disease.

Ozid:
Recommendation in what sense? Are you saying Wole Soyinka wasn't recommended for such prestigious award? When you talk about African novels/proverb you will give it to Achebe but if you're talking about the blending of both African culture with d western literary style, Wole Soyinka is that African writer that combines both together.

Give me one of his books that outweighs Things Fall Apart.

YonkijiSappo:


That is not google search mumu,
That is from Nobelprice.org

The website of the Nobel institutin itself
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/
(lists all the nobel winners for literature, and their strong points/reasons why)

Jealousy Is truly a disease.

Answer the question. Stop dodging.

You guys are false logic; haba, you're really suffering ooooooo! Don't you know that Wole Soyinka is more of a Play writer while Chinua is a great African story teller? Must every thing really be seen in your jaundiced view? Is that not sign of gross insanity? Haba, You've not really read any of Soyinka's play such as 'Trial of Brother Jero', 'Lion and the Jewel', 'Ake, the year of Childhood' etc. They are classic Playwrights. As for the indefatigable Chinua, he is a legend at Africa illustrative writings. He's such a genius. But know this today; Politics is in every human endeavor! Chinua was the propaganda minister of the defunct Biafra, he became more secluded after the Civil War and he never recovered his image due to that faceoff. That could be another angle to his denial of a Nobel Prize. But, his denial does not affect the brilliancy of Wole Soyinka. They are parallel cases.
Pls, its always too foolish to attempt to bring a system down just to argue your points. You could have stated that Chinua deserved the Nobel Prize without trying to foolishly discredit Soyinka. Its like saying Eto'o didn't deserve the Africa Footballer of the year he won because Okocha never won it. That's poor argument and a disservice to sound discourse.

Keep grasping at those straws

Neoguru6:
Answer the question. Stop dodging.

Which stupid question? You're a FOOL.. in capital letters, if by now you do not know that different people have different strengths and writing styles, and people win nobels for various reasons. Going by your ret.arded I.Q logic, J.K rowling should have since won a Nobel prize for literature since her novels "The Harry Potter Series" remain one of the most popular literary works to date.
btw: if you say Achebe's books are popular, Who exactly made it popular?

iPods at it again. They'll just sit down and start brewing hatred against themselves.

Neoguru6:
The Nobel prize for literature won by Wole Soyinka can no doubt be classified as a monumental fraud, obtained by string pulling and sentiments.

As you may know, the famous writer and arguably the father of modern literature in the person of Chinua Achebe, of blessed memories, was on the nomination list for the Nobel prize that year and was denied him by politics and overhyping of less deserving contender, Wole Soyinka.

In my opinion, if an individual were to be given such an elevated award he must have been at the apex of the field of study. If this is taken into due consideration by those who would question the veracity of this article, then, can such person tell the public which of Wole Soyinka's phantom books outshines Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart, Anthill of the savannah, Arrow of God, No longer at ease, There was a country in terms of sales and ratings. Most of Chinua Achebe's book have international accolades with best seller and all there is. At best, Wole Soyinka's works can be compared to those of Ngozi Chimamanda Adiche, an eloquent writer, best known for her books: "Purple hibiscus" and "Half of a yellow sun".

I am disappointed at you!!!

Soyinka was a better writer than Achebe. His play "Lion and the Jewel" was revered even by the whites who never expected that an African could have such a command of English Language. Soyinka had published many plays including a Play of Giants that won many awards. The book "Ake" believed to have influenced his winning the Nobel Prize was a masterpiece. He was at the apex of the drama world and was once president of the international drama society. He was more of a playwright than a novelist. His novels (The Interpreters and Season of Anomy) are only popular in the PhD classes but his plays are popular in and around the world. For a man who has taught in Harvard, it is disrespectful of you to refer to his achievement as a fraud. For your information, and with all due respect, Achebe was only known to have lectured in a college abroad.

Another thing you must understand is that names on nominations of a Nobel Prize for Literature are not open to the public until after 50 years. You cannot see the 1986 nomination until after 50 years so how did you know Achebe was on the list?

Another thing you must understand is that prior to the 1986 Nobel Prize, Achebe's novel list and work was pretty small. He had just five novels, three children's book, two poetry collections and an essay collection while Soyinka had over fifteen plays, two novels, three poetry collections, an autobiography and essay collections.

And lastly, most Nobel Prize winners are obscure. Their books are hardly popular. Talk of Gordimer, Mahfouz, Toni Morrison, William Golding (except Lord of the Flies), Ernest Hemingway, etc.

seunmsg:
Truly, Igbos always cry! It's in their DNA to cry and play the victim card always. Everybody is against them. Even the Noble committee denied Achebe the Noble price because he's Ibo.

If Achebe gets to read this thread, he will curse the OP from his grave for bringing ridicule to his name.

Oduduwa must be gnashing his teeth at this nonsense you wrote from where he is.

Neoguru6:
Oduduwa must be gnashing his teeth at this nonsense you wrote from where he is.

Mumu from Land of the rising red kpotokpoto mud.
You will be finished off in this your suicidal thread today.... Just letting you know.

You think Soyinka is the same as that monumental Fraud called Philip Emeagwali who duped his way to false recognition and was disgraced afterwards into eternal shame and oblivion. His praise today remain only on the lips of mumu gullible Igbos, the type that fill Nairaland to the brim.

The brand of ibos filling the internet space these days are really giving ibos bad names.

So ignorant and foolish, its sickening.

You think wining a nobel laureate is by selling stories of people under the palm wine tree?

Wake up kid.

Neoguru6:
The Nobel prize for literature won by Wole Soyinka can no doubt be classified as a monumental fraud, obtained by string pulling and sentiments.

As you may know, the famous writer and arguably the father of modern literature in the person of Chinua Achebe, of blessed memories, was on the nomination list for the Nobel prize that year and was denied him by politics and overhyping of less deserving contender, Wole Soyinka.

In my opinion, if an individual were to be given such an elevated award he must have been at the apex of the field of study. If this is taken into due consideration by those who would question the veracity of this article, then, can such person tell the public which of Wole Soyinka's phantom books outshines Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart, Anthill of the savannah, Arrow of God, No longer at ease, There was a country in terms of sales and ratings. Most of Chinua Achebe's book have international accolades with best seller and all there is. At best, Wole Soyinka's works can be compared to those of Ngozi Chimamanda Adiche, an eloquent writer, best known for her books: "Purple hibiscus" and "Half of a yellow sun".

James Hadley Chase also wrote quite a few bestsellers but that didn't make him a Nobel prize contender.

There's a reason why people like George Bernard Shaw and Wole Soyinka were given the award for literature. Their works are considered to be either superior or having a lasting artistic value.

Earth2Metahuman:
The brand of ibos filling the internet space these days are really giving ibos bad names.

So ignorant and foolish, its sickening.

You think wining a nobel laureate is by selling stories of people under the palm wine tree?

Wake up kid.

You dey mind them?
Infact if that is how to win a nobel, D.O Fagunwa would have since clinched a nobel, infact he would probably be one of the first in Africa, and not just Black Africa to do so, but his Novels were mostly in Pure Yoruba language.

Here we go again with another brain dead slowpoke from the land where the sun will never rise showing casing the hatred inherited from the grave of his ancestors.