Ile-Ife:
When this man dies, i wish he permits his brain be removed and fixed on a robot so we can have him for eternity. i hope i'm not being offensive.

Ola Johnson: See how WS was able to place these people where they rightfully belong without them being able to decipher. If they had, they would have infested this thread long time ago.

Ola Johnson:
Don't cause a scene you won't be fit to play in, young man. Be warned.

raphead: when you wanna war restraint from warring with a walking encyclopedia. reminiscing modenine punchline blows sending rugged man to retirement. the people this piece is directed to can't even decipher the message for them to come up with a reply. hope y'all shyteheads will move on with your hate after this three seconds k.o. even Ali plus mike Tyson can't best this k.o record. ;Dwhen you wanna war restraint from warring with a walking encyclopedia. reminiscing modenine punchline blows sending rugged man to retirement. the people this piece is directed to can't even decipher the message for them to come up with a reply. hope y'all shyteheads will move on with your hate after this three seconds k.o. even Ali plus mike Tyson can't best this k.o record.

raphead: when you wanna war restraint from warring with a walking encyclopedia. reminiscing modenine punchline blows sending rugged man to retirement. the people this piece is directed to can't even decipher the message for them to come up with a reply. hope y'all shyteheads will move on with your hate after this three seconds k.o. even Ali plus mike Tyson can't best this k.o record. ;Dwhen you wanna war restraint from warring with a walking encyclopedia. reminiscing modenine punchline blows sending rugged man to retirement. the people this piece is directed to can't even decipher the message for them to come up with a reply. hope y'all shyteheads will move on with your hate after this three seconds k.o. even Ali plus mike Tyson can't best this k.o record.

joeyfire:

Don't just regurgitate what other people have posted without thinking. Are the people that Soyinka is referring to NL posters? Or are u implying that the sage is a nairalander

ilugunboy:



Raphead....when are you going to release your album ?

Jenams: From all indication, Wole Soyinka is talking to one man. Read this_________________________________Dove-Edwin
had received communication that some
of “Chinua’s people” – A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR among them, WHO WAS NAMED
– had pronounced publicly that “Chinua
should have known better than to accept a spotless ram from his enemy” – yes, that was the word used – “enemy”. I verified this report from various other
sources.

raphead:


hey doofus will you stfu. ain't y'all simpletons all spewing the hate crested in your DNA during the father of literature shyte issue. one simple word to describe y'all is CLANNISH and BACKWARD irritants.

Starlett: [size=14pt]On my return to Nigeria, I could not wait to take the opportunity of a public lecture to invite all desperate enemies to please send me their rams of choice – spotless, spotted, piebald, striped or nondescript – so I could treat starving writers to free meals in my home for the rest of the year. And I promised to taste a piece of each ram before serving.[/size]

raphead:


hey doofus will you stfu. ain't y'all simpletons all spewing the hate crested in your DNA during the father of literature shyte issue. one simple word to describe y'all is CLANNISH and BACKWARD irritants.

Ola Johnson: See how WS was able to place these people where they rightfully belong without them being able to decipher. If they had, they would have infested this thread long time ago.

dozzybaba: Your chauvinist part finally got the better of you just when i thinking you have become sensible by telling that guy not to derail the thread earlier. You finally vomited the tribal rubbish that has been forcing itself up your gastrum just when i was thinking of extending my olive branch. Well..the question is, does a leopard change it's spots?...i mean even the 'geriatic and nobel' ones.

Ola Johnson: If you read this essay on Sahara Reporters, you would realize that the picture of WS used suits his mood - anger.

How I wish we have more people like Wole Soyinka, the people he is refering to would have had a change of attitude or keyed into reality. Does it not baffle you that hours after this post was made, they read it before going to bed, and woke this morning without a clue of what Kongi is saying?

Ola Johnson: Wole Soyinka hardly uses difficult words, but well-thought grammatical constructs that make the reader or listener think they are being carried along, only to be dumbfounded when asked what the professor said.

joeyfire:

Crap rapper.

While your mates are signing multimillion buck deals you dey here dey rap on politics board so bigots from your neck of the woods can pat your back and donate a few likes

Your idiocy is predictable and yet astonishing if you really think Soyinka is talking about NL. Did you see ME on any "father of literature" thread? Its easy to identify the Clan Oriented and Backward cos they aren't hard to spot. Its obvious you are one of the people too obtuse and intellectually challenged to know what Soyinka is actually talkin about. To the lame of mind, he was making a bigoted statement. I honesly pity this country based on the calibre of so called leaders of tomorrow. They are frightfully shallow.

dozzybaba: You said one but you gave two, you must be very 'sophisticated'

Starlett:
Before the promotion of that alternative cause-and-effect however, Dove-Edwin had re-scheduled, and we had a most bracing, optimistic afternoon with Chinua. Yes, our patient was eventually told the cause of the earlier postponement, and he had a good laugh.

http://saharareporters.com/column/village-mourners-association-wole-soyinka

naptu2: I think I can understand how he feels (I've been there before). You have a friend whom you've known for decades. Both of you discuss all the time. You collaborate. You know his mind. One day he dies and people who have never spoken to him before start claiming all sorts of things on his behalf.

For the record, Achebe always rejected the title of father of African literature. Soyinka knows this because he knows Achebe personally.

Thursday 12 November 2009 14.53 GMT

[size=14pt]Achebe rejects endorsement as 'father of modern African literature'[/size]

Nigerian novelist says he resists the tag 'very, very strongly' because it obscures the role of many other writers.

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has spoken out about his dislike at being labelled "the father of modern African literature".

The author of the multi-million bestseller Things Fall Apart, Achebe was given the label by Nadine Gordimer as he was awarded the Man Booker International prize two years ago; it has been frequently used both before and since. But the author said yesterday that he "resisted that very, very strongly".

"It's really a serious belief of mine that it's risky for anyone to lay claim to something as huge and important as African literature ... the contribution made down the ages. I don't want to be singled out as the one behind it because there were many of us – many, many of us," he said when asked about the title.

Achebe was speaking to the student newspaper of Brown University, the Brown Daily Herald, before a welcome event at the university as he joined the faculty as professor of Africana studies. He will be overseeing a new initiative at Brown, the Chinua Achebe Colloquium on Africa, which the university said would be developed "in keeping with his life's work to foster greater knowledge of Africa".

Achebe said that the idea of the colloquium would be "to take issues that come up". "Today Africa is a continent of issues wherever you look, and so I thought the best thing to do now is not to limit ourselves to one or two or even three issues, but to look at Africa bursting with problems and find out what we can do in each case," he told the student paper.

"For instance, the issue of governance, which is a major problem – presidents that do not want to retire when their terms are up, elections that are rigged, violence at elections ... Whatever we are doing, we're not doing right. Nigeria has been independent for nearly 50 years and look where we are."

Achebe, 78, is the author of numerous novels, including Arrow of God, A Man of the People and Anthills of the Savannah as well as his 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart, and a wide range of short stories and poetry. He is also known for his essays, with his 1975 piece An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness savaging Joseph

Conrad's novel as "thoroughgoingly racist".

His new book, The Education of a British-Protected Child, is a collection of autobiographical essays reflecting on his upbringing in Nigeria, and is due out from Allen Lane in January in the UK. The publisher described it as "a vivid, ironic and delicately nuanced portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', examining both his happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and also the harsher truths of colonial rule". Its contents "span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship".

http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/12/achebe-rejects-father-modern-african-literature

raphead:

shytehead dingbat, since you wanna stick to stupidity let me to take you to the cleaners where you belong. talking about signing deals, hello man how do liking and admiring underground rap game make you to sign mega bucks deal. and fyi I don't dig the commercial boys crap. may be you check up the meaning of enthusiast. slow androids like you are too slow for my level of rap music. talib kweli, commons, big daddy Kane, ras kas, rakim, modenine et al. hey man your lack of comprehension of even nursery rhythm is so evidence in the shyte you put up there. who is talking about nairaland. maybe you miss the part where the prof says the proponents of this hate are infesting young souls on the internet sinister to terrorist cells. ain't nairaland part of the internet platform this hate indoctrination has been clearly brought to the notice of everyone clicking to open the website. intellectually challenged village champion like you should stick with your palmwine shop discussion and stop dabbling in issues your ret.arded grey matter can't decrypt.