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GeoOla25:
who them EPP?

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Have you helped yourself?

tobimillar:
Ngugi wa thiongo, author of weep not child, the river between etc. Although he has been writing lately in his kikuyu language, he is then best and most celebrated to me. Look beyond Achebe and WS

that book did make me weep

Eeser:

Mariama Ba, celebrated writer from Senegal. Heard She's fulani. Is it true?

Eeser, Yes. Mariama Bâ is a Senegalese from the Fulani tribe, so you are very correct.

jnrbayano:
Chinua and Wole.

Make your pick.

They both too good.

gunther6:
The megalomania of Nigerians knows no bounds, you just had to declare Adichie as the Africa's 'most acclaimed' author. May I ask you how you came to this conclusion? How many African authors do you know? Did you sample opinions across different African countries? Toilet paper thread.

Sent you a message on your WhatsApp

LMAyedun:
Prof. Wole Soyinka - The first African to be honored with a Nobel Prize in Literature.

My boyfriend believes so. But i like Chimamanda Adichie. She hits the nail without making reading tiring.

gunther6:
The megalomania of Nigerians knows no bounds, you just had to declare Adichie as the Africa's 'most acclaimed' author. May I ask you how you came to this conclusion? How many African authors do you know? Did you sample opinions across different African countries? Toilet paper thread.

dont kill yourself over someone else opinion ... Ewu

temi4fash:


Sent you a message on your WhatsApp

Hahaha I lost that phone and WhatsApp bro. Send me a PM I will drop my new number.

Innovator90:
Who knows Wole Soyinka outside of Nigeria? Yorubas...every thing is not about dicck contest with Igbos. Chinua Achebe is the most celebrated African author. Do you know billions of people who are dying to read his books, and thousands of secondary schools and universities universities who have his books their curriculum since 80s. Things Fall Apart is the greatest literary feat of the last and current century.

I must give it to Achebe. Not because of things fall apart. It was a good book.
But Arrow of God is the bomb. If I write a review on that book, it might be longer than the book itself.
I love that book

Let's talk about the best author on Nairaland.
I will always give ishilove that title.....


Iyawo Nylon bag

Ishilove Ishilove Ishilove!!!!!!!!
How many times did I call u?
Oya come and complete that story

leofab:
dont kill yourself over someone else opinion ... Ewu

Don't you have night duty in the brothel where you work? silly dirty mgbeke forming funky. Learn to express your opinion without insults or enroll your uncultured behind in some school that teaches basic etiquette.

shadrach77:


Mariama Ba bawo? How many books did she write when she was alive for her to be classified as great ?

Her book 'So long A Letter' is widely considered very great. Is not by how much abro mi. It's by how well.

nigeriafarmer:
I agreed with you
he is the best

Is dt nt d guy dt wrote 1 play wt d title "I would marry when I'm ready" (I'm nt sure of D title o! I read it a long time ago).

Rapuru14:
Juxtaposing the 20th century and contemporary authors, I go in this order.
1. Chinua Achebe
2. Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie
3. Ayi Kwei Armah
4. Mariama Bâ
5. Aminatta Forna
6. Nadine Gordimer
7. Wole Soyinka
8. Ben Okri
9. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
10. Yvonne Vera

And someone placed Chimamanda before Wole Soyinka

Bede2u:
What do u know about french-Africa literature

I'm living in a French,so I can proudly tell u that the rewrite many of English novels most especially Nigerians to French.

Rapuru14:

Eeser, Yes. Mariama Bâ is a Senegalese from the Fulani tribe, so you are very correct.

Thanks for the confirmation.

kennethology:

They both too good.

I share same opinion.

I just couldn't pick one out of the two

pls anyone that knows d title of one very interesting novel which talked extensively bout the osu caste system (in which a girl called Emily or so , was d main character) please help me out. I really need to get dat book pls.

histemple:
I think Chimamanda Adichie is now on nairaland and she created this topic.

...

Deaddddd
This cracked me up

For me? Good writing is as easy to read as it is profound.
Google search Chinua Achebe's "...response to Conrad and marvel at his sheer bravery, and total amazing-ness

It goes without saying that he is the best for me
Adichie's Americanah is a very beautiful book, then her Half of a Yellow Sun is stuff of legend. Pure gold...not read the coloured flower book yet
She is 5 star, to rate her but Achebe is the comet, the One, so to say...

Rapuru14:
Juxtaposing the 20th century and contemporary authors, I go in this order.
1. Chinua Achebe
2. Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie
3. Ayi Kwei Armah
4. Mariama Bâ
5. Aminatta Forna
6. Nadine Gordimer
7. Wole Soyinka
8. Ben Okri
9. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
10. Yvonne Vera

what about CHIGOZIE OBIOMA AUTHOR Of THE FISCHERMEN?

olosupelumi:
No doubt Adichie is presently the most celebrated author in Africa

I completely agree wit u

mhosqo:
pls anyone that knows d title of one very interesting novel which talked extensively bout the osu caste system (in which a girl called Emily or so , was d main character) please help me out. I really need to get dat book pls.

Can you remember who authored the work?

gunther6:


Don't you have night duty in the brothel where you work? silly dirty mgbeke forming funky. Learn to express your opinion without insults or enroll your uncultured behind in some school that teaches basic etiquette.

lpw..life ain't gat no spare time your irk..get a life outside social prison... #yolo

leofab:
lpw..life ain't gat no spare time your irk..get a life outside social prison... #yolo

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

gunther6:
The megalomania of Nigerians knows no bounds, you just had to declare Adichie as the Africa's 'most acclaimed' author. May I ask you how you came to this conclusion? How many African authors do you know? Did you sample opinions across different African countries? Toilet paper thread.

Propably, it's the O.P's like. Someone the o.p is looking up to as a mentor with great admiration.

THAT IS HOW IT WORKS!

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.

Rexleo:
thank God oyinbo man is not sentimental and thank God once again oyinbo man na white no be blackie WS far and above all other contenders in the world at that time. It was not even an African or Nigerian context.it was a world context and chinua A was not even short listed.over and out.

benELOHIM7:
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.

u don make sense for ur mind abi??. Awards remain in mind n in records forever.

Wole would have gone into oblivion if not for his gallivantings and political rantings.

2odd:
u don make sense for ur mind abi??. Awards remain in mind n in records forever.

benELOHIM7:
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.

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.

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.

Boss i bow in awe !!!. I guess the guy didn't bother to Google him up. A professor in almost like seven universities .....................
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2odd:

Boss i bow in awe !!!. I guess the guy didn't bother to Google him up. A professor in almost like seven universities .....................
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Honestly, they don't read well before coming here to talk like an authority. Imagine his puerile argument against Wole Soyinka.