obadiah777: I GUESS I STAND CORRECTED LMAO

bolaino: I know I'm going to get lots of insults thrown on my person after creating this topic, but to me the truth is better, I'm not a tribalist or an ethnic bigot, on the other hand I'm a proud Nigerian, one who believes that there is still hope for our great nation, I grew up reading literary works of chinua achebe, and I enjoyed his master piece (things fall apart) so much that I always re enacted this story whenever I was bored while growing up, the author of the book seemed bigger than life to me then, but growing up I discovered one thing about this man, he was a sadist, a pessimist, and a bad critic, he never saw the country Nigeria amounting to anything, he was always quick to condemn from the high pedestal which the "white man" put him, no doubt he has made Nigeria proud in the aspect of literature, but what has he done to help build this country? This is a man who spent half his life abroad pointing out problems of this country, but never offering sound possible solutions to these problems, this man hated his father land so much that he refused a national award twice, I believe that his refusal to accept the national awards stemmed from his hatred of his fatherland, not solely cos he felt the governments had failed the people, this man was not a man of the people as most people are claiming, rather he was a man against the people, he was a doomsday individual, he was hoping for the collapse of this our great country, he hated the market woman, the taxi driver and even the lawyer, he saw Nigerians as a people who could never change for the better, chinua achebe made us proud with his literary works, but aside from that he did not contribute enough for the over all development of this country, we've heard of great doctors who left the western world to come and practice in bush Africa, these men are the kind of people we should look up to, let me not say more, but I believe I have made my views known, may his soul rest, I hope he is buried in the United states.

Eko Ile:

Olodo WAEC drop out, the topic is not about Yoruba people,its about ashebe.

Eko Ile:



Uncle, are you foolishly admitting that you goofed and you know not the difference between a singer and a writer? What's next? Sunny Ade get Nobel too.?

Egbon, leave comedy alone because you are lousy at it.

bittyend: So, no Nigerian is on the 'Future African Leaders' list yet you dingbats are fighting over a dead man who's already 6ft under, yes? 160million of you and none of you made the list!

Thank God I'm not a Nigerian.

Did Chinua Achebe Actually Do Anything To Promote Development In Nigeria?

bittyend: So, no Nigerian is on the 'Future African Leaders' list yet you dingbats are fighting over a dead man who's already 6ft under, yes? 160million of you and none of you made the list!

Thank God I'm not a Nigerian.

bittyend:

Brah, the name probably means YAM POTTAGE but you know oyinbos always name themselves after anything.

Eziachi:
In Igbo culture we use to say that if an idiom or analogy is explained to a boy, the dowry paid on his mother is all in vain.
I was using a scenario where 2 face wins a grammy therefore someone concluded that hence he is better or bigger than icons like fela Kuti or Obey because they never won a grammy themselves. A simply analogy, you still don't get it?

all4naija: Where is the list of Future African leaders? It is not complete without a Nigerian in it. That is a false list if you asked, although, I haven't seen it.

gbaky_floor:

Actually the topic is about yoruba people and their hate for igbos.

Perhaps if you had understood Achebe's last book, you would realise that he was merely stating the obvious. Igbos have not healed from their wounds. Maybe if all the tribe can understand that we all have wounds that are sour; then we can find a way to all heal and move forward.

But like a typical Yoruba, you call him a bigot and tribalist. FYI Awolowo invented tribalism and Soyinka cultism: both of which have hindered development in Nigeria. Achebe contributed to Nigeria's literary development , what have YoU contributed?

If you had any sense of diplomacy, you should know what Achebe meant to Igbos. What you should have been doing is sympathising with them on their lost: that would show that you care and what Achebe said about Yorubas hating Igbos is in the past but the fact that a yoruba opened this thread and yorubas are supporting him to ridicule Achebe, it renders Achebe's last book VALID in all ramifications.

all4naija: Where is the list of Future African leaders? It is not complete without a Nigerian in it. That is a false list if you asked, although, I haven't seen it.

obadiah777: YEAH THOSE DAYUM HEATHENS. OYINBOS THAT IS SPEAKING OF ASHEBE WAS HE SEPERATED AT BIRTH FROM NELSON MANDELA ? THOSE TWO LOOK LIKE IDENTICAL TWINS

nairaman66:

Yes he did! Out rightly he refused to soil his hand in the God damned dirty politricks of Nigeria!

EzeUche:
You better show that "dead man" some respect.

But I guess you being raised in Britain, you do not know much about the respect that should be given to an elder like Chinua Achebe.

Billyonaire: A divided Southern Nigeria is the glory of the North, what a calamity.

EzeUche: My respect for Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka is being put to the test because of some of these Yoruba bigots speaking ill of this great man.