eazzzy1:


So I guess its fair to call drogba father of African football?

Ola Johnson:
Wole Soyinka is far ahead Chinua Achebe. While Chinua Achebe is known only in writing fictions, Wole Soyinka is, in addition to being known as a poet and a dramatist, also known for activism, essay writing, the MC at independence day ceremony on 01/10/1960, the founder FRSC, the winner of drama entries for independence in 1960 etc. It is only the educated class that read literature that know Chinua Achebe. But in addition to being known as a writer, Wole Soyinka is also known even by illiterates as an activist, a critic, etc. My uncle in the village without education knows Wole Soyinka.

Ola Johnson:
Wole Soyinka is far ahead Chinua Achebe. While Chinua Achebe is known only in writing fictions, Wole Soyinka is, in addition to being known as a poet and a dramatist, also known for activism, essay writing, the MC at independence day ceremony on 01/10/1960, the founder FRSC, the winner of drama entries for independence in 1960 etc. It is only the educated class that read literature that know Chinua Achebe. But in addition to being known as a writer, Wole Soyinka is also known even by illiterates as an activist, a critic, etc. My uncle in the village without education knows Wole Soyinka.

Afam4eva:
The truth is that, the only reason why people try to compare Soyinka to Achebe is unconnected with the fact that Soyinka won the Nobel prize. Had he not won it, he would have just been regarded with the likes of Elechi Amadi, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ola Rotimit etc.

Ola Johnson:
Sorry! Wole Soyinka's Kongi Harvest was adapted for the movies in 1971.

And the best Wole Soyinka could do is name his work Konji Harvest.

I think Wole Soyinka is losing his mind. Perhaps, all the blood he shed from his cult days in campus
is playing tricks with his mind. Well, isn't Nigeria the land of the absurd?

bloggernaija:

Sorry to say but wole Soyinka inhabits another level of the literary planet . He is a combination of what all great writers are made of.
He is an activist, social critic ,crusader,wordsmith and a literary giant who is in touch with trends in a way Achebe never was.
When he speaks .people listen.
As for the moniker,"father of African literature". I will just simply compare it to the "Giant of Africa" nonsense .even in nigeria ,bishop ajayi crowther has a bigger to the father of modern nigerian literature.he paved the way for most of your forefathers including achebe's ,to read and write in the first instance

Obiagu1:

Not today.

Ha ma ka ha si akpu anyi n'ala

Crayola1:

Who cares lol. Is anyone checking for that film or know it exists?

Ironically the film Soyinka is well known for is based on Things Fall Apart.

Its come full circle for the guy

Ola Johnson:
Wole Soyinka left Chinua Achebe as far back as 1986. They are not mates. Even after winning the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka still writes. There is hardly any two years he does publish a book apart from numerous essays. His book, Harmattan On An African Spring, was launched recently.

Ola Johnson:
Wole Soyinka left Chinua Achebe as far back as 1986. They are not mates. Even after winning the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka still writes. There is hardly any two years he does publish a book apart from numerous essays. His book, Harmattan On An African Spring, was launched recently.

one.east:



Why did you bother yourself with that dunce? There chest beating cannot help any matter, soyinka is not know outside Yoruba borders. Whereas Achebe is known all over the world..who is now greater between the two?

Nobody can change the fact that Achebe is the Father of modern African Literature.

InvertedHammer:
Have you ever listened to Wole Soyinka's interviews.
I was mesmerized by how Sowore was able to answer questions directly in the last encounter that had Okupe, Soyinka and Sowore in attendance

Soyinka is just a less comical and less dramatic version of Patrick Obahiagbon.
Problem with Soyinka is that he is too rigid and tries too hard to impress with crammed up vocabularies which distort the message in the context he uses them.

ajanaku2:
Immediately after winning the Nobel prize in 1986, Soyinka had academic offers from top universities in the World; Ivy League and Oxbridge. He rebuffed their plum and lucrative offers and opted to stay with the then University of Ife, not until Abacha forced him out of the country! That's a true and through Nigerian...

Achebe relocated to the USA, claiming the bad roads in Nigeria caused his "Skoroism", as if accidents don't happen on the smooth roads of Massachusetts...Well, he was a Biafran!

If only some Niggers know what it means to be a Nobel Laureate...

InvertedHammer:
Have you ever listened to Wole Soyinka's interviews.
I was mesmerized by how Sowore was able to answer questions directly in the last encounter that had Okupe, Soyinka and Sowore in attendance

Soyinka is just a less comical and less dramatic version of Patrick Obahiagbon.
Problem with Soyinka is that he is too rigid and tries too hard to impress with crammed up vocabularies which distort the message in the context he uses them.

Crayola1:

Which is why his works are not as widely read. But peoole here feel that the more difficult your prose is. Some of the best books are the most simple in nature.

JK Rowing's will be classics for years to come and she didn't have to hit you over the head with a dictionary to do it.

ajanaku2:
Immediately after winning the Nobel prize in 1986, Soyinka had academic offers from top universities in the World; Ivy League and Oxbridge. He rebuffed their plum and lucrative offers and opted to stay with the then University of Ife, not until Abacha forced him out of the country! That's a true and through Nigerian...

Achebe relocated to the USA, claiming the bad roads in Nigeria caused his "Skoroism", as if accidents don't happen on the smooth roads of Massachusetts...Well, he was a Biafran!

If only some Niggers know what it means to be a Nobel Laureate...

Crayola1:

He left because he was paralyzed from his injury and Nigeria is not known to be wheelchair friendly. But your "version" my mistake "lie" sounds so much better lmao lazy people can't even consult wikipedia for Godsakes.