@ Kairoseki77
I see you edited your post....finally read the article, eh?

Wise Decision.

Jaidey-one:

Lol wole is just Yoruba by birth. He's a detribalised Nigerian. I'll answer your question if you can tell me why ojukwu ran away to abijan instead of waiting to be captured so he can die for what he believed in. If your leader can't die for biafra why should a Yoruba man spend even a day in jail for supporting the biafran cause

Don't u ever get tired of being stupid?

Nashville: Anyone that criticises a weak and deluded president becomes an embarrassment. Our leaders should learn to take constructive criticism. This was the same man that was fighting for GEJ three years ago when Turai and co were treating him like trash. It goes to show Soyinka has nothing personal against GEJ. He is a man that speaks the truth and cannot be bribed. Where were the opportunists three years ago when Soyinka and co were shouting?

He has been an activist since he was a young man and that is what he stands for. Is it PEJ that is not an embrassment? A woman that goes about ordering elected governors to shut up. A woman that comes out to say she is one of the people behind the Rivers state crisis. And sure her grammer is an embarrassment.

Bros, next time read the article first before commenting.

In early July, a maneuver by the Dame’s supporters to impeach the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly devolved into mayhem. In the ensuing brawl, one member of the House, Chidi Lloyd, attacked another, Michael Chinda, with a ceremonial mace, breaking his skull and critically wounding him in full view of television cameras. In the wake of this attack, Dame Patience made a conciliatory statement in which she described Governor Amaechi as her “son” (the difference in their age is seven years). Newspaper commentators found her appeal hypocritical, since she’d been widely credited with a major role in the state’s crisis. After all, she had recently been in Rivers State on an eleven-day visit, with the full security apparatus of the Presidency. Her visit was so disruptive and intimidating that the governor had been pinned down in his lodge, unable to move around his capital city, Port Harcourt. And in the House of Assembly there was a group of members so fanatically loyal to her that one of them, Evans Bipi, had declared to the press, “Why must [Governor Amaechi] be insulting my mother, my Jesus Christ on earth?”



WTF,DONT CARE ABOUT ALL THEIR BS BUT WHEN SOMEONE CALLS ANOTHER PERSON THIS,THEN YOU NOW WE HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES

Wole Ȋ̝̊̅§ simply A̶̲̥̅̊ role model...we dnt av 2 b tribalistic abt everything,do we?

Kairoseki77: Wole won the Nobel Prize for Literature and is internationally known and celebrated. This is the same award given to Ernest Hemingway, Jean Paul Sartre, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and others.

The Nobel Committee gave Wole his award for being a man: "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence."

Who the hell is PEJ??

a mere appendage of power!

cumpaddre:
Don't u ever get tired of being stupid?

If being logical is synonymous with silliness then I want to be silly for the rest of my life. Answer the question. ojukwu couldn't die for biafra. He ran away. Why should a Yoruba man spend time in jail for a biafran cause when ojukwu couldn't die a hero's death for the same cause Answer the question or stfu

pej is a shepopotemus.

oride: Culled from Page Turner.

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing. And in a play about a preacher, theatre easily becomes religion. The performance of Wole Soyinka’s 1964 farce “The Trials of Brother Jero,” which I saw recently in Lagos, was not dissimilar to my experience at a Pentecostal church about two weeks later. “The Trials of Brother Jero” centers on a prophet, one of the many freelance Christian clerics of dubious authority that have proliferated in Nigeria. Charlatans are not charlatans all the way through: if they didn’t believe at least a little in what they were selling, it would be difficult for them to persuade others. “In fact, there are eggs and there are eggs,” Brother Jero proclaims in his first soliloquy of the play. “Same thing with prophets. I was born a prophet.”

This element of make-believe is true of both prophets and actors, and so in a play like “Brother Jero” the point is doubled: both acting and religion have an imprecise relationship with the truth. The performance I saw was at a beautiful independent theatre called Terra Kulture, on Victoria Island, an upscale neighborhood of the city. Brother Jero—“Velvet-hearted Jeroboam, Immaculate Jero, Articulate Hero of Christ’s Crusade”—was played with slinky, mellifluous deviousness by Patrick Diabuah as equal parts Hamlet and Wile E. Coyote. The play was fast, funny, wordy, and physical, and it sent up deception for the two-way street that it was: an eyes-half-open transaction between the deceiver and the deceived. “Go and practice your fraudulences on another person of greater gullibility,” says one of Jero’s marks shortly before he, too, is flattered—drawn in with sweet words and gleefully defrauded.

Nigeria, too, is in a season of drama, and words are flying freely. In Rivers State, in the oil-rich Niger Delta, there is a power struggle. This struggle is entirely within the People’s Democratic Party, which is the party of President Goodluck Jonathan, and it centers on the elections of 2015, which the President is interested in contesting. The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is from Rivers State, and she has been vocal on one side of the dispute, acting as the President’s proxy. The governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, widely liked and seen as an insurgent within the party, is on the other side. President Jonathan has been condemned by Nigerians for being ineffectual, for having a make-believe Presidency that promises much and delivers little, but the Dame (as she is called) has been even more a figure of fun. Her command of English is unsteady: she once addressed a gathering of widows as “my fellow-widows.” A cause for more sustained resentment has been her ostentatious personal style in what is still a desperately poor
country.

In early July, a maneuver by the Dame’s supporters to impeach the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly devolved into mayhem. In the ensuing brawl, one member of the House, Chidi Lloyd, attacked another, Michael Chinda, with a ceremonial mace, breaking his skull and critically wounding him in full view of television cameras. In the wake of this attack, Dame Patience made a conciliatory statement in which she described Governor Amaechi as her “son” (the difference in their age is seven years). Newspaper commentators found her appeal hypocritical, since she’d been widely credited with a major role in the state’s crisis. After all, she had recently been in Rivers State on an eleven-day visit, with the full security apparatus of the Presidency. Her visit was so disruptive and intimidating that the governor had been pinned down in his lodge, unable to move around his capital city, Port Harcourt. And in the House of Assembly there was a group of members so fanatically loyal to her that one of them, Evans Bipi, had declared to the press, “Why must [Governor Amaechi] be insulting my mother, my Jesus Christ on earth?”

Loudest among the voices of protest raised against the Dame was Wole Soyinka’s. He took her to task for imposing herself on the people and for acting like a “parallel head of state.” Soyinka called a press conference in Lagos and built his case against the President and his wife around an extended and unexpected metaphor: the twelfth-century persecution and murder of Thomas à Becket by the agents of Henry II. Speaking about the way a king might tacitly condone crimes and, thus, making pointed reference to the way Governor Amaechi was being stripped of power in Rivers State, Soyinka asked, “Are we not moving towards absolute monarchism? There are many worrying historical parallels.” A written statement he gave to the press had a more ad-hominem quality, ending with the line “You can extract a hippopotamus from the swamps, but you cannot take the swamp out of a hippopotamus.” This was generally interpreted as an ungentle poke at the Dame, a woman of considerable size. Even some of Soyinka’s supporters squirmed at the analogy.

Political activity has always been as central to Soyinka’s work as theatre has. He was uncensorable right from the start. He was imprisoned for twenty-two months in the late sixties, during Nigeria’s civil war, for his attempt to negotiate a peace between the Federal and Biafran sides. He spent much of that time in solitary confinement, an experience that he wrote about in a memoir, “The Man Died.” In 1994, he fled Nigeria when the military regime of General Sani Abacha threatened his life. His passport had been seized, so he went across the land border into the Republic of Benin, and from there he made his way into exile in the United States. He agitated for a return to democratic rule and was charged with treason in absentia, in 1997. But he returned home after General Abacha died, in 1998, and he lives in Nigeria now.

He remains one of the country’s most fearless defenders of human rights, speaking out on issues from the Boko Haram insurgency to the aggressive legislation curtailing the rights of gays and lesbians. He is famous and respected, and perhaps better known to the ordinary Nigerian for his political activity than for the linguistically intricate and thematically complex plays—among them “Death and the King’s Horseman” and “Madmen and Specialists”—that won him the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1986.

Word of Soyinka’s July press conference reached the Dame, and she was not amused. Three days later, she issued a statement in which she called Soyinka “an embarrassment” to Nigeria. And it was this unexpected turning of the tables, this swerve into the theatre of the absurd, that I wished to ask Soyinka about. I got my chance a few days later, when I visited him in Abeokuta, about an hour north of Lagos, in his bucolic home at the edge of the woods. The house was cool, shadowed, and quiet. It had none of the ostentation that one expects from a Nigerian “big man”—no security fence or luxury cars or marble floors. Instead, there was indigo-dyed hand-woven aso-oke cloth on the windows, and there were phalanxes of African sculpture, both Yoruba and otherwise, standing in watchful groups around the living room. It was a reassuring place, a suitable lair for a man whose name, soyinka, literally means “the daemons surround me.” I was reminded of another one of the epithets for him: “child of the forest.” He lived up to this designation as well, often going out hunting and bearing in himself a more congenial relationship with traditional religious belief than most Nigerians, converts to Islam or Christianity, would entertain. Soyinka is a devotee of Ogun—the god of iron and “the first symbol of the alliance of disparities”—and his “Myth, Literature and the African World” is a learned exploration of the links between epic theater, Yoruba ritual, aesthetics, and ethics.

My visit was about a week after his seventy-ninth birthday. He looked vigorous, effortlessly handsome. His famous afro and beard, both a vivid white, looked less like signs of age than evidence of some unending efflorescence. “So, what does it feel like to be an embarrassment?” His eyes closed with mirth.

“It is not only the end of farce. It is the end of all the genres.” Then, still laughing, but with more fight in his voice, he added, “She was unelected—and it is irrelevant if she’s a man or a woman—she is a mere appendage of power. If there’s someone she doesn’t find embarrassing, there must be something wrong with that person.”

Teju Cole is a photographer and writer. His novel “Open City” won the Internationaler Literaturpreis in June. He contributes frequently to Page-Turner.

What type of nation is this? Everytime tribe tribe and tribes!
Even the educated ones are not left out. What a shame!!!!

Kairoseki77: Wole won the Nobel Prize for Literature and is internationally known and celebrated. This is the same award given to Ernest Hemingway, Jean Paul Sartre, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and others.

The Nobel Committee gave Wole his award for being a man: "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence."

Who the hell is PEJ??

These days I think it profoundly inane that it is implied that being a Nobel laurete makes one intellectually superior to me or others.

Soyinka is both grammatically and legally correct.It is the lack of understanding of grammer and the Constitution that makes naive Nigerians insult Soyinka.
Our Constitution provides no role for the wife of the president.
The word appendage means "the president's better half/helper" thus Soyinka is totally in order.

Simplymeah: Wole Ȋ̝̊̅§ simply A̶̲̥̅̊ role model...we dnt av 2 b tribalistic abt everything,do we?

He sure is...the more reason these mediocred don't like him.
Conscious people are not popular in a country of appalling mediocrity like Nigeria.

cumpaddre:

How does the actions of a few group of people justify the intentions of the others? I don't know why seun and the other mods can't ban these tribalists moving from thread to thread looking for tribal e-wars to start. Not everyone is jobless you know?

I tire o! These same people will come out singing Lucky Dube's "Different colours, one people" when the white man call us "black monkeys" and acts superior.

have you all forgotten the seadogs(pyrate confraternity) founding fathers if you forget check check www​.nas-int.org/

Orlanda Owoh,
Is it impossible to make your point without mentioning another tribe that had nothing to do with the initial thread?

You are small minded and obviously haven't travelled beyond the borders of this country. Make your point and move on, no need to go on a tribal dimension. This goes for both the yoruba and ibo bigots. Expand your little minds. Life is too short

Uyi Iredia:

These days I think it profoundly inane that it is implied that being a Nobel laurete makes one intellectually superior to me or others.

Why don't you go win a Nobel Prize then so you can look at them as equals. Mtcheew!

Uyi Iredia:

These days I think it profoundly inane that it is implied that being a Nobel laurete makes one intellectually superior to me or others.

Why don't you go win a Nobel Prize then so you can look at them as equals. I heard it's pretty easy. Mtcheew!

DerideGull:

For the sake of reasonability, please name one additional Yoruba who spent almost 3 years in jail because of Biafran issue.

it is better 4 you to kill urself rather than to commit suicide

DerideGull:


You should be ashamed of yourself, multitude of forbearers and ilk that only one Yoruba was reasonable enough to understand the plight of Biafrans. Yet you are here playing ever chest beating and arrogating of err of personality peculiarly known about Yoruba people. If the nonchalance exhibited by the Yoruba people was not a crass self-indictment, what else could be?

No
It was only one youruba man that fought for, stood for and died for Biafra -
Lt. Col. FRANCIS ADEKUNLE FAJUYI; may his soul rest in ETERNAL peace and may his name remain on the pedestal immortality.
MAY HIS OFFSPRINGS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS BE SHOWERED WITH GODS BLESSINGS, FAVOUR AND PROTECTION AND MAY THEY LIVE VERY LONG; MAY ONE OF THEM RULE NIGERIA ONE DAY.[img][/img][img][/img]

iykedee: Orlanda Owoh,
Is it impossible to make your point without mentioning another tribe that had nothing to do with the initial thread?

You are small minded and obviously haven't travelled beyond the borders of this country. Make your point and move on, no need to go on a tribal dimension. This goes for both the yoruba and ibo bigots. Expand your little minds. Life is too short

GOD BLESS YOU!

Teenage Money:

I said summary Please

must u quote d whole ting?U nid to be taken to any celestial church for flogging

Ojogbon Soyinka! Baba Agba!, Omowe ti o lafiwe!...

I'm sure "Wild Christian" and "Essay" would be extremely proud of you in the after-Life, if there's any!

May Ogun never recedes in showering with the blessings of Sagacity and Shrewdness...

Teenage Money:

I said summary Please

Why don't you read it? No one is your personal aide. To every man his own brain.

sad many pipu hear didnt read d story bt d title...no wnder many pipu are talkng rubbish here..

Wat does tribalism got to do with the story?sme nairalander self na wa o

A great man but his project "CAMPUS CULTISM" has taken so much lifes more than the Boko Haram.



Ok all the Yoruba's and Pirates here in NL should murder me and add to the number.

When Wole Soyinka stood against the Civil War, to the extent the FG thought this was tilting in support of Biafra, he was arrested and detained for close to 3 years. Igbo saw him as a hero. He fought the Regime of Sanni Abacha to the extent he was declared wanted dead or alive. Igbo saw him as a hero. He, not minding his old age, marched the streets of Lagos and Abuja for Goodluck Jonathan to be made Acting President; this was achieved. Igbo saw nothing wrong in it. But when he asked President Goodluck Jonathan to call his wife to order, the Igbo took swipe on him, calling him names simply because Jonathan promised them a second Niger Bridge, and the Presidency after 2019. Now they are asking him, knowing his detribalized stand, to speak on the deportation of some of them from Lagos State to Anambra State. What is in the DNA of these people.
Kongi, may you live long.

Jaidey-one:


If being logical is synonymous with silliness then I want to be silly for the rest of my life. Answer the question. ojukwu couldn't die for biafra. He ran away. Why should a Yoruba man spend time in jail for a biafran cause when ojukwu couldn't die a hero's death for the same cause Answer the question or stfu

My N***a, the question I think u should ask your ignorant self is; how does your comment relate to this post?? Where did Soyinka or the good writer mention this poo you and your fellow tribalists are here spewing? . Comment on the topic on ground joor and stop wasting your MB talking trash.

Double Post

Uyi Iredia:

These days I think it profoundly inane that it is implied that being a Nobel laurete makes one intellectually superior to me or others.

It doesn't necessarily make them intellectually superior to anyone. It just makes them greatly accomplished - at least to the perception of the majority - and therefore considerably more important than you, me or anyone else who may or may not have written a book, and certainly hasn't won the Nobel Prize, or achieved any equally remarkable feat purely by their own effort.

The poster you quoted was merely hinting at the fact that the Dame falls in the last category.

So what was the point of the interview? A completely forgotten issue. Now some folks have gone to war with it. Please let sleeping dogs lie.

francisbiz:
No
It was only one youruba man that fought for, stood for and died for Biafra -
Lt. Col. FRANCIS ADEKUNLE FAJUYI; may his soul rest in ETERNAL peace and may his name remain on the pedestal immortality.
MAY HIS OFFSPRINGS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS BE SHOWERED WITH GODS BLESSINGS, FAVOUR AND PROTECTION AND MAY THEY LIVE VERY LONG; MAY ONE OF THEM RULE NIGERIA ONE DAY.[img][/img][img][/img]

Adekunle Fajuyi fought for Biafra abi? Ok.
I guess u were Yuzedo's classmate at Uncle Emeka Grammer School, Abackalicki.

aasog1:

The same man was shred to pieces by pro-GEJ activists, who called him mad, despite he spent 2 years in prison for their Biafra. The same Shoyinka dared the cabals when GEJ was "Totally alone", and not one of his ally including Dame spoke a word. I think Yorubas have done enough for other tribes in this country. Its time that energy is poured on ourselves alone. Anyways, no sane Yoruba man would fight for any more tribe with the actions and anti-Fashola and anti-Yoruba music that has been sung since Gej became the president. The prof has finally quieten down. We need him to do more for his people rather than some bunch of hapless low-memory ingrates.

will you reduce every issue to tribes and ethnicity what concerns fashola and yoruba with this beautiful write up?