Baby mama:

I am glad he said it
He probably also recognizes the evil in his own people well
He is so unlike them
Does not share any Yoruba attributes besides place of origin

alj harem: [size=14pt]It is clear we have a very big problem with this nation. NO ONE COULD ANSWER A CLEAR CUT QUESTION WITHOUT INSULTS.

They ramble with no answer. See stu.pidity[/size]

This does not change my views and respect to the great writer Achebe. I still respect him as a man. So no one should view my CLEAR direct question as disrespect for Achebe.

Aigbofa:

Soyinka is a gracious man, you can tell from when he was younger and even went to jail defending ibos. Achebe on the other hand was nothing like Soyinka, he cared only about his Ibo people, while everyone else was jealous and out to get them.

May God bless Soyinka and I pray ibos will not repay him as they did Banjo and as they are trying to do to the memory of Fajuyi.

nnenna.1:
The only media outlets vilifying Achebe are Nigerian sites such as this one.

No wonder the country will forever remain the a*shole of Africa.

Baby mama:

That is why the country is a load of poo
And the only group vilifying him is the group labelled by non Igbos as the problem with Nigeria
The rascals of Nigeria
The chief tribalists of Nigeria
The introducers of tribalism in Nigerian politics and everywhere they go
And now slowly becoming part of boko haram as their brothers sign up with al queda

Is anyone surprised?

7842I:

Soyinka's father is an Igboman, thats why he behaves differently.

alj harem: [size=14pt]It is clear we have a very big problem with this nation. NO ONE COULD ANSWER A CLEAR CUT QUESTION WITHOUT INSULTS.

They ramble with no answer. See stu.pidity[/size]

This does not change my views and respect to the great writer Achebe. I still respect him as a man. So no one should view my CLEAR direct question as disrespect for Achebe.

patrkq: Alll u bigoted, disgrunted, incoherent, partially educated, frustrated, hopeless and most importantly awkwardly tribalistic narrow minded southerners shud Bleep off...
The main idea the poster was trying to generate was that although chinua achebe was a literary genius, he neva channeled this talent into positively affecting nigeria....
Let's look at this analogy... Nigeria is suffering from a malignant tumour.. Now most Doctors know dat there is little hope, does dat mean we shud then kill nigeria.... NOOO. We continue to apply various theraupies in hope dat this will cure or improve the condition of the patient(nigeria)....
Achebe was a literary icon, but nothing more....datz all

KenGali:

Funny, when the lion is wounded, the rats declare war!
Since being a Literary Icon is a "just". So easy to achieve! Please what are you?
A Faceless finger on a keyboard mouthing words at a man whose sandals you are not worthy to untie!

4chi:


Yes,another Yoruba man indeed used the same school to achieve heights that the beret wearing ugly mofo can only dream of . His name is OLUWOLE SOYINKA . a man whose shoe lace your ashebe cannot tie. A master of prose, drama and poetry and not some tales by moonlight story teller whose primitive stories can only find leverage with Amos tutuolas palm wine drinkard.

Baby mama:

[size=18pt]They usually don't know much except insulting words
Matching them intellect for intellect is often an exercise in futility
Many including myself have answered the OP well on previous pages,picking his points bit by bit
They are not interested in facts
They are interested in heaping the most insults and parroting what they heard others say
That is the style of the area boys of Nigeria.
When words fail them as is often the case, they resort to agbero style
The only method that comes naturally and effortlessly to them
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Aigbofa:

Soyinka is a gracious man, you can tell from when he was younger and even went to jail defending ibos. Achebe on the other hand was nothing like Soyinka, he cared only about his Ibo people, while everyone else was jealous and out to get them.

May God bless Soyinka and I pray ibos will not repay him as they did Banjo and as they are trying to do to the memory of Fajuyi.

ROSSIKE: ^^I actually sympathize a bit with your sentiments. I think Achebe was a bit too much of a pessimist where it concerned modern Nigeria. He failed to understand that developing nations, especially complex ones like Nigeria, need time to develop the institutions and even the culture required to create and sustain advanced societies. He had this naive idea that straight off from independence, we should have been on a one way trajectory to being the new Japan or USA, forgetting that those nations had several centuries of independence before getting where there are. Africans are not superhumans. The colonialists left us without a single proper university on the entire black continent right up till 1960 when they left (apart from in SA). How does such a continent develop into a world class place in a decade or two as Achebe was expecting? It was never going to happen. The coups, the corruption, the ineptitude etc were all very predictable growing pains of newly liberated nations that had been bastardized for centuries by rapacious, unscrupulous foreigners. We've actually come a long way if you look at it objectively. We've brought mass education to our people, which was denied us by the colonialists. We've built some notable infrastructure, and our economies are growing from strength to strength. So we're not standing still. Shame Achebe never found it in him to acknowledge that progress.. But we still honour him for his great works of literary genius which brought glory, international respect and honour to his fatherland and to the continent. His place is assured in the annals of great African heroes.

Baby mama:

Any Igbo man that hates Soyinka is ignorant of history
Your generalizations are sick
The day he dies Igbos will mourn him loudly,I wish him long life
Banjo was killed in war for reasons best known to the killer
The same manner many Igbos soldiers were killed in the hands of Biafra for being saboteurs
Awo is what Awo is and that is what Chinua described him as
If Awo and Yoruba are interchangeable words,the problem is with Yorubas not Chinua

alj harem: Any educated non-baised person would understand the QUESTION HERE AND THE ANSWER I AM GETTING

Question

What did Achebe do to improve/advocate to better the life of an average Nigerian

Answer by Igbos bigots

He was an Icon, He wrote so and so book, he brought African/Nigerian Igbo culture to the international literature world, his book is translated to 1200000 languages etc

Has this answered the question I asked or the OP answered ? If indeed we have sensible people who are defending this man know what a direct question and direct answer is.

Look all, I did not see the doors of a university but if indeed this is what University education entails then it is good as I can see lots of wasted investments

Simple direct question, to answer it is difficult.

nnenna.1:


This bolded is what many of the those folks here equate to quick wit and high intelligence.

Low class and gutter behavior.

Blueboy0402: There was a country: a land of the rising sun. There was a country: a land of great intellectuals. There was a country: the home of Azikiwe, Chinua Achebe, Ojukwu, Emegwali, Chimamanda, king Jaja, Oludah Equino etc. There was a country: her citizens sacrificed their lives for freedom. There was a country: betrayed by her neighbours. There was a country: hated by many, loved by few.
RIP Chinua Achebe. Your book "There was a country" is indeed a parting gift to the world.

alj harem: Any educated non-baised person would understand the QUESTION HERE AND THE ANSWER I AM GETTING

Question

What did Achebe do to improve/advocate to better the life of an average Nigerian

Answer by Igbos bigots

He was an Icon, He wrote so and so book, he brought African/Nigerian Igbo culture to the international literature world, his book is translated to 1200000 languages etc

Has this answered the question I asked or the OP answered ? If indeed we have sensible people who are defending this man know what a direct question and direct answer is.

Look all, I did not see the doors of a university but if indeed this is what University education entails then it is good as I can see lots of wasted investments

Simple direct question, to answer it is difficult.

alj harem: Any educated non-baised person would understand the QUESTION HERE AND THE ANSWER I AM GETTING

Question

What did Achebe do to improve/advocate to better the life of an average Nigerian

Answer by Igbos bigots

He was an Icon, He wrote so and so book, he brought African/Nigerian Igbo culture to the international literature world, his book is translated to 1200000 languages etc

Has this answered the question I asked or the OP answered ? If indeed we have sensible people who are defending this man know what a direct question and direct answer is.

Look all, I did not see the doors of a university but if indeed this is what University education entails then it is good as I can see lots of wasted investments

Simple direct question, to answer it is difficult.

Baby mama:

[size=18pt]I hear them make fun of Chinua as a fictional writer
Most of them dunces have no clue what fiction and non fiction are
Most books are classified as non fiction

Non fiction Includes

Cookery books
Autobiographies
Memoirs
Religious books
Maps
Dictionaries
Encyclopedia
Textbooks of history,science,mathematics,geography and all other subjects known to man
These all make up the majority of published books

But the you hear these eediots parrot fiction because they heard others say it

Did they expect him to write a history of Oduduwa republic or how to make amala?

A fictional writer that has sold 12 million copies of one book and counting is darn goo[/size]d at what he does

Nincompoops

aryzgreat:

, thought i was d only one dat noticed the way they wia blabbing about "fiction" as if they even know wot fictional books are. bunch of touts rampaging on NL exhibiting their rascal behaviours.

KenGali:
I think I understand your problem Mr. Harem. Stems from not having seen the doors of the University.

Let me help you, improving better life of an average Nigeria extends beyond infrastructure. Their is such a thing called intellectual development. Achebe contributed greatly to the intellectual development of the majority of Nigerian students by providing them a world class intellectual fodder. Not just for Nigerians, but to the world actually. same as the likes of Charlse Dickens, whose Oliver Twist you must have read.
For the minority African and Nigerians who have to deal withe the rest of the world, He created a great perspective for that interaction on elevated footing in the work, Things Fall Apart.
Thank you.

Chanchit: :-XI think Achebe really tried in promoting civil war in Nigeria, even with the last book he authored last year.

Baby mama:

See how they have all gone to hide
To Confound them just display some common sense without insults ,they go and hide
Useless things

Mr. Globe:

I refuse to join issues with you as regards Wole Soyinka, the ONLY Yoruba man we respect and adore in Alaigbo. At the end of the day the stories you disparaged are the highest selling African made stories worldwide. You wouldn't know this since you are a victim of the free and fake awolowo education that has turned 80% of Yoruba people (you inclusive) to taxi drivers in all major Nigerian cities.

alj harem:

Oh I see, thanks but you and I would agree that what you just said is what I was getting at

My brother, THAT IS NOT AN AVERAGE NIGERIAN. I hope you are getting my point, what impart has he made for the average almajiri or what you people in the east call "Youths"