R.I.P to a great man.

What matters is not how long a man lives or how he died, what really matters is how much he has been able to affect his generation. Prof was (and still is) a great man.

Whenever African literature is mentioned in the next 200 years or more, Achebe will be mentioned. He is the Williams Shakespear of Africa.

What is Chinua Achebe?

nnenna.1:
By the way, nothing wrong with naming a university in the SE after achebe, soyinka or any of the Nigerian literary greats.

Why should this be an issue at all?

Because of his surname, some people think with their mouth. Let's name Unibadan after Achebe, Jonathan must immortalize this great son of Nigeria.

Rest in peace sir. Chukwu nabata gi nwa chukwu.

Where is Dr. Ozondo when you need him?

Why do Igbos go around looking for trouble?

Are they suicidal?

What did Achebe say about the Yorubas? How did he slander the Yorubas?


The funny thing is that some of you people will not have a problem with naming an institution after Sanusi, who has actually slandered Yorubas in his write ups.

He is the brightest literary brain the nation has produced so far. Rest in peace great one.

nnenna.1:
What did Achebe say about the Yorubas? How did he slander the Yorubas?


The funny thing is that some of you people will not have a problem with naming an institution after Sanusi, who has actually slandered Yorubas in his write ups.

"It is my impression that Chief Awolowo was driven by an overriding ambition for power, for himself in particular and for the advancement of of his Yoruba people in general. And let it be said that there is, on the surface, at least, nothing wrong with those aspirations.However, Awolowo saw the dominant Igbos at the time as the obstacles to that goal, and when opportunity arose-the Nigeria/Biafra War-his ambition drove him into a frenzy to go every length to achieve his dreams. In the Biafran case it mean hatching up diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation-eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations".

That's slanderous by all standard. Murtala never slandered yorubas, if he ever did, believe me, we would have protested any move to immortalize him in SW. plus its you people that have problems with the northeners not us.

funkymama:

WTF!!

Are you trying to compare murtala Mohammed with Achebe?

C'mon, don't be silly. The former stood for the unity of Nigeria. We cannot say the same for the latter.



And so bloody what if he schooled at U.I?

He is not the first, last or best graduate that university has produced.

There are universities in the east. You can choose one .

or are you trying to say that there's no university in the east that's worthy to be named after Achebe?

Shior !

Nobody can compare Achebe with ordinary Murtala, except for yoruba people who see the northerners as their masters.