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1. Did you know how many times fela went to jail

2. because he challenged the long years of military rule ?


3. Well ask Mitchell Obama what she saw in Fela to have bumped into his anniversary party last year and acknowledged his greatness !


4. Fuckingmoron

django1:
You're too misinformed or just being obtuse!
What don't you know about the 20pounds policy? Is it that its an ex gratia that is given to all ibos (who came out of the civl war) across board not some remittances of their bank account! Those who had proven bank statments got their money, abi you want make fed govt dey dole out money to evey ibo man?
Your reasons for calling awo wicked is all borne out of ignorance and hatred fed you by your predecessors.

KenGali:

This is beyond the topic, but stop spreading falsehood with a false claim of knowledge or keep quiet if you do not know. My Grandfather sold off a fleet of Austin Lorries before the war and put his money in the bank, His Passbook is still kept in pristine conditions. He received only 20 pounds for his balance. After the war he had to become a Driver for one of his employees!

facideume: @OP,
I need not join the bandwagon in unleashing some venomous vituperations against your person. I believe you have fully received a lot of "insults" as you had rightly expected and anticipated. Your post totally stinks of abysmal ignorance of the person of Professor "Chinua Achebe" such that the only thing you made reference to was a book (Things Fall Apart) he wrote more than 45 years ago which has received numerous awards, and also translated into many major languages all over the world. I believe you first read the book as a teenager in secondary school, if i am not mistaken.

You are totally bereft of his professional experience and numerous positions in which he worked for the Nigerian state before the civil war started in 1967. Do you also know the capacities in which he continued to work for the Biafran nation after he fled from Lagos to save his life and that of his family, while working in a government establishment? Do you know the diplomatic missions he embarked upon for Biafra during that war? Do you know who was behind the famous Ahiara Declaration?

I believe Professor Chinua Achebe have rightly responded to pessimistic people like you in his recent book "There was a Country" but i also know that your utter resistance to knowledge, abysmal ignorance, and paralyzed sense of research will not let you read that book. In the same book, he answered his reason for rejecting the awards. Have you read his book "Problem with Nigeria"? A person who has not worked for Nigeria in different capacities cannot write an insightful and detailed book of that nature which continues to be relevant in modern day, Nigeria. In fact, you are part of the "problem with Nigeria" in the way and manner you have created this post. Why do you think he was given those awards that he vehemently rejected? Do you think it was only because of his literary works? The same amount of time you spent on the internet or on Nairaland typing this silly, annoying and provocative post would have been well invested on Google search about the highly respected Professor Chinua Achebe. I am not also in doubt that if anything happens to Professor Wole Soyinka tomorrow (God forbid) that someone like you won't come here to create similar post.
Reading maketh a man...even if you had the worst teachers in school due to the fallen standard of education in Nigeria you must learn to read! read!! read!!! SMH

KenGali:

This is beyond the topic, but stop spreading falsehood with a false claim of knowledge or keep quiet if you do not know. My Grandfather sold off a fleet of Austin Lorries before the war and put his money in the bank, His Passbook is still kept in pristine conditions. He received only 20 pounds for his balance. After the war he had to become a Driver for one of his employees!

Dede1:



You are one among many reasons Nigeria is a dead-end piece of junk. Achebe was and remained one of few major contributors to Africa’s progress. You are too ignorant to even begin to comprehend Achebe’s contribution to the progress of entire African continent. In USA, authors of text books that hold rare knowledge are valued more than an idiotic politician who claimed to have granted free education, built TV Station, roads, bridges or stadia by using public fund. An author used his\her natural endowment, time and money to publish books so that drooling airheads such you had the opportunity to spew crap.

If moronic dingbats such as you had followed a bit of Achebe’s preaching and forget the never-do-well structure on a sandy foundation such as Nigeria, the region would have experienced explosion of progress and mutual corporations among nation states rather than ethnical and sectarian massacres prevalent in Nigeria today.

I shall never want to have you as a compatriot.

I'm not going to deny that injustices could have occurred during those days, but it is on record that 20pounds policy was not an exchange for bank accts and that people who had their money in eastern banks could not get their money because it had all been looted.
Well, am sorry for your loss, but is it awolowo you hold for that misfortune?

ROSSIKE: Can we all get along?

olufunmibi: Well for me it just happened that I've never read any of Chinua Achebe's books, my elderly sibblings did, because it was the fad in their days, but history effectively told us that he is a great literary icon,he was a strategist during the biafran war, he received national honours and turned some down, and he wrote a book "there was a country" at age 81 or so which reignited generation old animosity, hatred, and disaffection between the Yorubas and the Igbos.[b]the book is a time bomb, it has a potential to cause carnage and bloodshed in the future, if the wound of ethnic hatred remained festering and fungating. For me, I regret that that book was written in the twilight of his life, it has not helped national unity, it has made us hate ourselves more. [/b]I read with disgust what people, the Igbos, write on this forum about my Patriach,Obafemi Awolowo. Never mind. It is what it is. You, your children, your Grand children will spend Naira, that name Naira, our Collective Monetary Identity as Nigerian was coined by Obafemi Awolowo, and please always remember to collect your N100 Change, that is Awo in your pocket. It is what it is! Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife, best University in Nigeria, is Awo's Brainchild, he was the Chancellor, it is what it is. If you are great, You are Great, it is just what it is! By the way I commiserate with you my Igbo compatriots on your loss, may God keep raising great men and men who foster peace and not divison among you. And may you one day again have a great leader, who you can all rally around, who can be your guiding light and lead your race to the greatness you always aspire to, not just people writing books causing fight among children on the internet. Accept my condolences.

Truckpusher: I'm sorry we can't ......how can we get along when you have the two major tribes of this country engaging themselves in a shameless war of words filled with ethnic bigotry,hateful and derogatory languages that will incite hatred which will even make an insane man question their insanity? funny enough they all went to school ,then my question is what is the essence of educating these youths that can't contribute positively in a mere forum how much more to the nation at large?

talktimi: as you were reading with disgust what the igbo people wrote about the late chief Awolowo, did you by any chance notice that it was your yoruba compatriots who started the tribal mudslingings on this thread ? Let's call a spade a spade & I would like you to go to the first page of this thread and see who started these tribal rantings then immediately the igbos respond, they are instantly called bigots. I'm neither yoruba or igbo but na wetin I see I dey yarn.

django1:
I'm not going to deny that injustices could have occurred during those days, but it is on record that 20pounds policy was not an exchange for bank accts and that people who had their money in eastern banks could not get their money because it had all been looted.
Well, am sorry for your loss, but is it awolowo you hold for that misfortune?

engineerd: HE HAS CONTRIBUTED TO CANNIBALISM...LOOK AT THE GUYS LIPS AND TEETH...ALL THOSE CHILDREN'S STORY BOOKS HE WROTE WHILE CHEWING ON FRIED HUMAN FLESH...

Efikman: And what positive impact did Awolowo make in Nigeria (not yorubaland ohhh)

Mr. Globe:

What more is there to be said. Nairaland is like a field where retartded individuals have the opportunity to display foolishness and relate with smart and intelligent folks. The Op will have such fraudsters as awolowo, Fashola and Tinubu as a hero and contributor to the development of Nigeria as against people like Achebe and Soyinka

gbaky_floor:

Apart from cultism what did Soyinka contribute to NATIONAL development?

Apart from making weed seem cool to youths, what did Fela contribute to NATIONAL development?

Answer these questions and you have the answer to Chinua Achebe's contribution!

vivian chinaza: Menh, instead of living with this amount of hatred for each other, this country should be divided. We can NEVER be ONE!

Eko Ile:

Sorry I don't write and peddle hate and bigotry books, your gran pa ashebe wrote enough to keep you hateful, bigoted and busy for the rest of your life.

4chi:

You are absolutely correct on the fact that ashebe is nothing more than a ibo biafran. And that's all to him. So let the ibo biafran carry his crippled corpse and bury him in the evil forest like okonkwo his grandfather.

You are also absolutely correct that he doesn't owe yorubas any farthen, just like Awo did not owe biafrans any farthen by taking the most pragmatic decisions to end the Nigerian civil war quickly and bring your silly little republic to it's knees. One wonders then why ashebe was so bitter about that? I am sure he would do worse if he had the chance considering the volume of bitterness in his patently deranged psyche.

7842I:

A great prophet saw this in 1967 and made attempts to split, (Ojukwu) but was betrayed. Lets continue in the hate, lets die fighting together

vivian chinaza: Menh, instead of living with this amount of hatred for each other, this country should be divided. We can NEVER be ONE!

ilugunboy:

Bring knife ..make we divide am!

manny4life:

Dude, you overall thinking is GROSSLY FLAWED, but open another thread on that, and then send me a message. I will meet u on there. As u can see, the mods hid the posts and my lengthy post addressed all your concerns. Like I said, open another thread, not on this one.