Cusubaba: Wole Soyinka won NOBEL prize being given to him by his European masters while Chinue Achebe won Africans heart and they crown him the Father and Grandfather of Africa Modern Literature. Ask a kenyan, a Ghanaian, a Southafrican, a Tanzanian or ask 90% Africans children who is Wole Soyinka? They will say i don't know. But ask them who is Chinua Achebe? 98% Africans will tell u 'THINGS FALL APART'' our man. The Father of African Modern Literature.

Neo-XVI:


You can't identify ANY member of Miami Heat YET you would stab Lebron if you see him? How would you recognize him then?
And what kind of dumb analogy is that?

Meanwhile good luck stabbing him (yoruba man with mouth sha ). Your ass will rot in jail.

So much for being an intellectual. smh

Cusubaba: Wole Soyinka won NOBEL prize being given to him by his European masters while Chinue Achebe won Africans heart and they crown him the Father and Grandfather of Africa Modern Literature. Ask a kenyan, a Ghanaian, a Southafrican, a Tanzanian or ask 90% Africans children who is Wole Soyinka? They will say i don't know. But ask them who is Chinua Achebe? 98% Africans will tell u 'THINGS FALL APART'' our man. The Father of African Modern Literature.

Ola Johnson:
Guy, Soyinka and Achebe are not mate, Soyinka is far ahead of him. At your age, how do the stories in Achebe affect your reasoning when compared with the philosophical works of Soyinka. When we speak of the Nobel Prize, you point at Achebe's Things Fall Apart; what is that compared to: Idanre, You Must Set Forth At Dawn, Kongi's Harvest, Interpreters, etc that have been performed to the admiration of even the Queen of England.

Ola Johnson:
Guy, Soyinka and Achebe are not mate, Soyinka is far ahead of him. At your age, how do the stories in Achebe affect your reasoning when compared with the philosophical works of Soyinka. When we speak of the Nobel Prize, you point at Achebe's Things Fall Apart; what is that compared to: Idanre, You Must Set Forth At Dawn, Kongi's Harvest, Interpreters, etc that have been performed to the admiration of even the Queen of England.

nwando:

Who has heard any of those works besides people in your village

manny4life:

You know I once asked a coworker - a Black American, does she know "Things Fall Apart", to my greatest surprise, she said YES. Though she couldn't remember the author, but she said she knows the book, she read the book when she was in school. Keep in mind, this lady is in her mid 40's, I was shocked to even find out that most schools here in DC had it in their curriculum...

Neo-XVI:
Meanwhile, y'all should stop the back and forth. Chinua was one of the greatest writers of all time. Mr Omatseye, or whatever his name is, is an irrelevant journalist who'd obviously sell his own ma for a pot of porridge. So I don't see why anyone would take him seriously.

There wasn't a single leading newspaper house the world over that didn't write a major column on Achebe when he died. The piece on New York Times was trending for days. You should know what that means.

Ola Johnson:
Guy, Soyinka and Achebe are not mate, Soyinka is far ahead of him. At your age, how do the stories in Achebe affect your reasoning when compared with the philosophical works of Soyinka. When we speak of the Nobel Prize, you point at Achebe's Things Fall Apart; what is that compared to: Idanre, You Must Set Forth At Dawn, Kongi's Harvest, Interpreters, etc that have been performed to the admiration of even the Queen of England.

nwando:

Who has heard any of those works besides people in your village ?
That is my point
[size=28pt]That a group of white men in Sweden sat and gave out an award does not mean you are the best in what you do
Einstein did not receive a Nobel either but yasser Arafat did
Go figure[/size]

ichidodo: NEXT TIME ASK HER IF SHE HAS READ ABOUT THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

ichidodo: HE IS A GUY WHO MADE THE WORLD TO VIEW YOU AS A BLACK MONKEY.

Cusubaba: Mumu. 98% Africans don't know who is Wole Soyinka, talkless of reading his books. But 98% Africans and world as a whole knows Chinua Achebe and ''Things Fall Apart''

Cusubaba: Mumu. 98% Africans don't know who is Wole Soyinka, talkless of reading his books. But 98% Africans and world as a whole knows Chinua Achebe and ''Things Fall Apart''

nwando:
[size=18pt]That a group of white men in Sweden sat and gave out an award does not mean you are the best in what you do
Einstein did not receive a Nobel either but yasser Arafat did
Go figure[/size]

[size=20pt]The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein[/size] "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".



Albert Einstein received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1922. During the selection process in 1921, the Nobel Committee for Physics decided that none of the year’s nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Albert Einstein therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1921 one year later, in 1922.

bloggernaija: Personally , I read things fall apart twice,watched the mini series and took examinations based on the book. I kind of agree with Sam here. The dept and range of a typical Nobel winning work of literature is very very high and has little to do with the personality of the writer.Things fall apart simply falls short in this regard.
You only need to check out wole Soyinka poem ,"A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION" to understand what Sam is talking about. This peom is so deep that even an adult will find it hard to u dear stand without explanation. It did not win him anything

dayokanu:

Stark illiteracy on display. Can you try again




http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/

dayokanu:

Stark illiteracy on display. Can you try again. Its obvious some people here don't know what Nobel means They thought its some village "Father of internet, father of African literature, Father of African boxing, Father of runaway cowards etc "




http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/

Eko Ile: Mogbe!!!!! lmao.
I'm seriously lmao.
This is why I don't take these ashebe folks seriously...

nwando: Wow
One thing you have got right since your sojourn on nairaland
How impressive

dayokanu:

Its obvious some people here don't know what Nobel means They thought its some village "Father of internet, father of African literature, Father of African boxing, Father of African runaway cowards etc "

dayokanu:

Its obvious some people here don't know what Nobel means They thought its some village "Father of internet, father of African literature, Father of African boxing, Father of African runaway cowards etc "

nwando: Would you know what father means since women are heads of households in most of your homes
The word father must scare you
Pele

OX59: There is one thing I've rightly comprehended about Nairaland:98% of the folks here are more concerned with the messenger;never the message.
Sam said a very simple thing:he said TFA was a good novel based on its storyline(plot),but that the novel is average in use of words/language.............and for those fools who come to every post displaying crass ethnicity,let me ask you something simple:is Sam Omatseye a Yoruba man?is it not trite knowledge that this idiotic act of ethnic chavinism is worse in the so called youths?..................IF I WILL SUCCUMB TO YOUR GUTTER MENTALITY,I'D SIMPLY TELL YOU THAT YES,THE IBO MAN THAT HAS HIS NOVEL LISTED AMONG THE BEST 100 NEVER GOT A NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WHILE THE YORUBA MAN DID............and am someone from the middle belt talking!

slimghost:

Mr OLODO, getting a Nobel prize doesn't mean you are the best in your field! ok? stop embarrassing yourself

slimghost:

Mr OLODO, getting a Nobel prize doesn't mean you are the best in your field! ok? stop embarrassing yourself