Chinua Achebe has made a name for himself in the literary space and has laid a landmark only a few writers can match his prolific output and prowess in capturing and probating an image of Africa is beyond remarks. Lately, there has been a lot of contemplation on his echelon in the literary space - why he wasn't able to clinch the Nobel Laureate in his shelf of awards.

As Paul Samuel son posit; the dream of any scholar comes through by this award, The Nobel Laureate. Alfred Nobel's will in (1895) had it that the award was intended for the person who in the literary field, had produced 'the most outstanding work in a direction' one could easily conclude that Chinua Achebe and a plethora of writers like Graham Greene haven't fallen short of this criterium. Peter Jazzy Ezeh writes that Chinua Achebe and Graham Greene could have been omitted for the award due to their constant commitment in their support of the oppressed rather than the interest of the the interest of the big powers (the former especially in his pursuit of BIAFRA).


Various opinions have also perceived that those who receive the price lately haven't really done much to deserve it. Elfriede Jelinek (Austrian 2004) who herself felt she didn't deserve it ( a member of the Academy resigned in protest of the award) or is it Claude Simon the French writer whom ( the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy - givers of the award) answered in an interview that he only heard of the name after he-Simon Claude won the prize.


Nevertheless, it would have made more weight for the stand of the Author, bit since the prize is not given posthumously, reasons, why Achebe didn't receive the award before he passes on, would still continue to be an open deliberation.



However, the Nobel Laureate would not decide the best of intellectual output the world has to bequeath us... Since it is recorded that Swedes have received more prizes than Asia put together, this could spark a reply that the Nobel Laureate now has a better meaning to 'a lofty and sound idealism'.

Chinualumogu Achebe has, however, earned himself much honour and reverence that has dwarfed the Nobel committee. His literary works can speak for it!

https://www.historicalville.com/2019/11/chinua-achebe-icon-beyond-nobel.html?m=1

You can say the man is good not beyond nobel laurel him brain then learn from wole

He's good regardless

Interesting..

Yes Achebe was indeed a great man. In Things Fall Apart, he told a very important story: the African Man's own side of the story. In Part 1, he showed clearly that Africans lived in well organized societies before they had any contact whatsoever with the White Man - they had their religion, they had their culture, they had morals, and they had sports!

The Europeans' account was that Africans lived like semi-animals prior to their entry into Africa. This was a lie. It was so important to tell our own side of the story and this is what Achebe did for us in Things Fall Apart

Achebe is an icon, all legend, an intellectual epitome, a role model, this man is an idol, sorry to say, he should be made a deity.. Can u president be remembered like this?

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Great brain .....things fall Apart is a book one can’t get tired of reading but I don’t know why our sick government don’t encourage it, rather we import Macmillan for kids to read
We can’t have people like chinua,chiamada,wole etc yet They approve Animal farm for kids

interesting..but why say better than nobel laureate? this una self esteem ehn...always trying to compare him or say he's better than wole..na wa for una

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Fadomero:
You can say the man is good not beyond nobel laurel him brain then learn from wole

why would u say " him brain de learn from wole" ? Can't u just read and appreciate him without making baseless comparisons ?

Nice one

Why the beyond....?

he deserved it.

Fadomero:
You can say the man is good not beyond nobel laurel him brain then learn from wole

True

Beyond indeed.
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I still don't understand the repetitive wailing over the lack of a Nobel award.

Only 4 black people in history have won Nobel prize in an academic field. All other black men/women won the award in the Peace category.

The 4 academic black Nobel awardees are:

1. William Arthur Lewis. American (Economics 1979)
2. Wole Soyinka. Nigerian (Literature 1986)
3. Derek Walcott. St Lucian (Literature 1992)
3. Toni Morrison. American (Literature 1993)

Wole Soyinka has the distinction of being the first continental African to win the Nobel Prize in an academic field, and the first black person worldwide to win the Literature Nobel Prize.

Other Africans who have won the Nobel Prize in an Academic field are either Arab or White South African.

We yorubas hate him for writing the true history about the war.

Fadomero:
You can say the man is good not beyond nobel laurel him brain then learn from wole

you dey mind that yeye op

Booking space.

Your post is hard to read. There is no knowing where a sentence has ended and another has begun.

Chinua Achebe was an outstanding scholar of international. But saying his plethora of other wards he got thwarted that of the Nobel Prize is laughable.

The funniest part, I have not read any of his book yet..

Will take time.. But not soon

just like Thierry Henry

Achebe, best of the best from Nigeria.

True legend