There is nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, that slanders Yoruba people in that post.

NOTHING.

If you find my comprehension skills lacking highlight the points there that specifically mentions the misdeeds of all Yoruba people or the Yoruba nation.

django1:

"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.

Fair enough, it's un-African to talk bad about the dead. But to call that book the best book written by an African shows the lack of reading culture among Africans and the inability of African youths to differentiate between what a masterpiece is and what a jejune tale is.

Way to go the future of Africa. Maybe Africa has no future afterall with the quality of people it continues to produce in this day and age.

I bet 50 shades of grey is also a masterpiece to most African youths loool.

Airforce1: Who is chinua achebe please anyone?

If I, as an expat, know who he was, someone who is most likely a native Nigerian should be ashamed to even ask such question. Youngsters today know who mumu 49 cent, Kim Kardashian and some porn stars are, but to know about someone from the world of top-class literature.... ehhhh, that requires some mental efforts, I guess. By the way, it is not chinua achebe, it is Chinua Achebe.

Eyin omo oodua, e Jebure, e jo.

A ki foro ya oro.

Lets respect the dead, e jo.

you take offense easily, i was just speaking the truth, achebe did not defend nigeria

nnenna.1:


Which has actually made more sense than anything you've ever written.

A bigger shame

Folks, please ignore the resident bigots , cuz the yorubas that matters have paid their respect to prof. Achebe without resorting to name calling.

Much respect to Coogar, Ajanlekoko, Katsumoto, Desola and the rest of the Yorubasthat came in on the thread drop their piece and leave without name calling.


This other ones jumping from page to page are inconsequential nonentities and they are well known on NL.

funkymama:

Conspiracy theorist on the loose

Even if that's the reason why he was killed, he went down as a HERO. a true GENTLEMAN and GENERAL.
His face for ever on the twenty naira note. Well respected even in death.

Can we say same for ojukwu that started a war that he couldn't finish, left millions dead, starving and then ran to exile

Shior !

Can we say that of awo who instead took rat poison and die https://www.nairaland.com/1233106/18-secondary-student-cultists-arrested

Odenigbo Aroli.:


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

Now you're just asking for trouble.

Wow some Yorubas are really surprising me here today I swear. Desola? Coogar? My God. Am really sober.

namfav: you take offense easily, i was just speaking the truth, achebe did not defend nigeria

Achebe being a "nonsense man" is truth only for hasish infested brains.

But then again, it's Nigeria, where everything is upside down and the average person has an IQ of 69.

BTW...Do you consider Sanusi, your brother, a nonsense man and a liar in light of his stance that Yorubas Are The Problem with Nigeria.

coogar:

so a man does 95% things rightly and then did 5% wrongly and you only want to remember him for the 5%. i bought his book the day it launched and apart from the parts where he got carried away and denigrated awolowo and the yorubas, the book was a master-piece. you could argue it's the best book written by an african.....i don't agree with some of the things he said but in the grand scheme of things, it's his opinion!

Same as it is the opinion of the majority to remember Achebe as a bigot in tribalism.

The system of the world is fashioned in the sense of remembering your bad deeds far better than your good deeds. That is why we all remember RVP for cheating on his wife. We remember Bill Clinton for his sexual affair while in the White House. We remember Achebe as a tribal bigot.

Name UI after Achebe? is there no public toilet to name after him in Iboland?

Ugh...so not worth it .

So wrong to be crass at this venue and at this time.

I take my leave.

gratiaeo:
Can we say that of awo who instead took rat poison and die https://www.nairaland.com/1233106/18-secondary-student-cultists-arrested

All these talk of awo taking rat poison is BULLSH*T

Is there any proof? Where you there when he died? Do you have an autopsy report?

Awolowo' s body was placed in a glass casket and was on display for yearsssssssss for members of the public to show their respect before he was finally buried.

He never died a shameful death.

Ojukwu's case is well documented. A "general" that left his army, left his people to starve, die and fled to exile? How he got a state burial, I just don't get it. Anyway, shebi na GEJ he will prolly give a state burial to Osama bin laden if he had his way

Shior !!

bittyend: Fair enough, it's un-African to talk bad about the dead. But to call that book the best book written by an African shows the lack of reading culture among Africans and the inability of African youths to differentiate between what a masterpiece is and what a jejune tale is.

Way to go the future of Africa. Maybe Africa has no future afterall with the quality of people it continues to produce in this day and age.

I bet 50 shades of grey is also a masterpiece to most African youths loool.

stfu. always claiming you know shiiit. where you know nothing? I saw how you were schooled in that Kim kardashian thread. Only Soyinka is in Achebe's class in Literature in Africa. Be deceiving yourself with that your peckam backyard.,

Desola: Eyin omo oodua, e Jebure, e jo.

A ki foro ya oro.

Lets respect the dead, e jo.

Good morning

Hmmm. True.

Feed me more: Folks, please ignore the resident bigots , cuz the yoruba's that matters have paid their respect to prof. Achebe without resorting to name calling.

Much respect to Coogar, Ajanlekoko, Katsumoto, Desola and the rest of the Yoruba's that came in on the thread drop their piece and leave without name calling.


This other ones jumping from page to page are inconsequential nonentities and they are well known on NL.

O, the living glorifies themselves against the death, my heart wails....all these people giving 1000 yrs cannot leave a mark of their foot on d sand of soil of their street, much more of this man that left his on d sand of d universe. I believe he was destined to be, open the eyes of their heart to appreciate greatness, so them can be inspired.
God bless Achebe

nnenna.1:
There is nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, that slanders Yoruba people in that post.

NOTHING.

If you find my comprehension skills lacking highlight the points there that specifically mentions the misdeeds of all Yoruba people or the Yoruba nation.

if truly you cant see the insult in that quote then, am not sure anyone can help you understand!

Name UI after Achebe?

Even Soyinka will curse retardeen should he even think of such.

Besides who is the overzealous MOD hiding my post?

Pataki:

Same as it is the opinion of the majority to remember Achebe as a bigot in tribalism.

The system of the world is fashioned in the sense of remembering your bad deeds far better than your good deeds. That is why we all remember RVP for cheating on his wife. We remember Bill Clinton for his sexual affair while in the White House. We remember Achebe as a tribal bigot.

The only thing we remember is Achebe's memoir was the truth! and awo died of apparent suicide from rat poison

Pataki:

Same as it is the opinion of the majority to remember Achebe as a bigot in tribalism.

The system of the world is fashioned in the sense of remembering your bad deeds far better than your good deeds. That is why we all remember RVP for cheating on his wife. We remember Bill Clinton for his sexual affair while in the White House. We remember Achebe as a tribal bigot.

but he's dead now -
can't we be decent enough to respect the dead?

coogar:

but he's dead now -
can't we be decent enough to respect the dead?

Achebe never respected the dead while should his carcass be respected and not fed to vultures?