BluntBoy:


Are you angry

Alright, sweet dreams.

Shugavee:
lol angry that what!! I aint good with arguments!!! Just stated my points!! N just so u know I know all the writers u wrote up there!!

ameri9ja:
Who is greater?

calliope:

Does it matter?

lastempero:


Nairaland is suppose to be a plus but unfortunately the reverse is the case,more division.

noble71:
There was a country!

BluntBoy:


That book is overhyped.

It didn't liberate Africa in anyway. Instead, it presented Africans as barbaric. Achebe talked about killing of twins, human sacrifices (Ikemefuna's murder) and then painted the whites as liberators. Things Fall Apart is just exactly the same note made by the whites. Achebe was not original.

In another of his novels, No Longer At Ease, he portrayed the Africans as thoroughly corrupt and the whites (symbolized by Mr Greene) as incorruptible.

Achebe simply painted the whites as good in his novels set in precolonial and colonial era.

He doesn't come close to Soyinka in depth, originality and the sustained voice.

Tell me how Things Fall Apart liberated Africans. The only thing it did was even expose us as savages and portrayed the whites like Mary Slessor for instance as our liberators from the worship of dead gods. Read Things Fall Apart, and you will see that Achebe revered the whites and even couldn't hide his disdain for the African religions.

ameri9ja:


There is 10 times more tribalism in NL than in real life.

ameri9ja:


It matters (like in Messi vs Ronaldo) but it doesn't apply because they are in different fields.

PAGAN9JA:


Is it now? I thought it deplored the fact thar we stopped worshiping the Gods.

BluntBoy:


Bro, have you read Attahiru by Ahmed Yerima.

Even though it was a historical play and Attahiru was killed, Yerima's sympathy and voice was with the blacks. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe was writing fiction as close to history as possible and yet failed to even give the gods some dignity. Everything happened so fast and there was little resistance to the power of the whiteman's God.

Things Fall Apart is overrated. It is unoriginal. If you are looking for real African novel, try Elechi Amadi's The Concubine. That is purely African and with a sustained voice. Things Fall Apart never liberated Africa in anyway. It just has the hype.

PAGAN9JA:


hmm Even I wondered why Achebe was given a very christian funeral upon his death.

Anyways I'll try this book - The Concubine. Thanks!

AuntLaVIV:
Throwback picture of the father of modern African literature Chinua Achebe and Afro beat king Fela Kuti in the 1970s.

Lalasticlala

BluntBoy:


Try it, my brother. It is a fine book. There is another wonderful writer too. Isidore Okpewho. Try reading his "The Victims". I love the man die Achebe has nothing on that man. One thing with life is that luck sometimes plays a great deal even if you are very gifted. Achebe was a great writer (or should I say, storyteller). His novel, "Arrow of God" is one of my favorite African novels of all time but I don't really fancy him even in the top ten very good African writers.

salvationproject:
This are legend and Buhari have also prove himself one too.
Greatest fellow Nigerians, President Muhammadu Buhari have put up the mandate to us to make Nigeria great again by declaring his intention for second term.
This man means we'll for Nigerians,
He entered office in 2015:
1. And since 2016,boko-haram became handicap to attack and other terrorist groups like ipob are now exterminated and their leader dead somewhere.
2. And now Looters are afraid of the name Nigeria.
3. And all is set for the payment of 5000 to all Nigerian youths.
4. And now bag of rice that was N22000 is N5000.
5. And now though dollar is high, it decreasing rate shows that in the next quarter of the year, 000.01 naira will be equal to 1 dollar and perhaps people have never been this rich in other regime compare to our great PMB regime.
6. Millions of employment everyday as those who were even sack are now getting more better jobs.
7. No strikes in our tertiary institutions again.
8. Great infrastructures now showing up every now and then both in the SS, SE, NE, NW, NC, SW... Just name it.
9. Improvement in public health care that even the president son and family are now attended to medically in Nigeria.
10. Nigeria is now written with integrity all over the world that if we can extend PMB tenure to 2023 and even add more years, a permanent seat in the UN is sure for us.
11. Industry are now working that we can now see self-driven cars on our highways.

Let support this man of change forever.
#ISaiBaba #ISaiChange
Written by an educated elite.

BluntBoy:


Try it, my brother. It is a fine book. There is another wonderful writer too. Isidore Okpewho. Try reading his "The Victims". I love the man die Achebe has nothing on that man. One thing with life is that luck sometimes plays a great deal even if you are very gifted. Achebe was a great writer (or should I say, storyteller). His novel, "Arrow of God" is one of my favorite African novels of all time but I don't really fancy him even in the top ten very good African writers.
I doubt you know anything about African literature. Those two you mentioned cannot lace Achebe's shoes. Even Elechi Amadi copied Achebe form and style of writing. Achebe was not just the father of African literature because of his book "Things Fall Apart", he was because he nurtured African literature through his editorship of the African Writers Series and changed the way African's tell their story by introducing a new form of writing colored with proverbs, fables and cultural symbolism to which every writer of African origin could tell their stories. Achebe was the first African writer to write a true African novel, that today in the west the Achebian style of writing has become a yardstick scholar judge your writing as an African.

BluntBoy:


Try it, my brother. It is a fine book. There is another wonderful writer too. Isidore Okpewho. Try reading his "The Victims". I love the man die Achebe has nothing on that man. One thing with life is that luck sometimes plays a great deal even if you are very gifted. Achebe was a great writer (or should I say, storyteller). His novel, "Arrow of God" is one of my favorite African novels of all time but I don't really fancy him even in the top ten very good African writers.

Chiwude:
I doubt you know anything about African literature. Those two you mentioned cannot lace Achebe's shoes. Writers who could not stand toe to toe with Ngugi wa Thiongo, the greatest of Achebe's influences. Even Elechi Amadi copied Achebe form and style of writing. He as well as the likes of Okpewho and so many other, are called the "sons of Achebe" by the African literary cycle because their style of writing was influenced by Achebe himself. Achebe was not just the father of African literature because of his book "Things Fall Apart", he the was the greatest because he nurtured African literature through his editorship of the African Writers Series and changed the way African's tell their story by introducing a new form of writing colored with proverbs, fables and cultural symbolism to which every writer of African origin could tell their stories. Achebe was the first African writer to write a true African novel that today the Achebian style of writing has become a yardstick scholars all over the world judge your novel as an African.

Chiwude:
I doubt you know anything about African literature. Those two you mentioned cannot lace Achebe's shoes. Writers who could not stand toe to toe with Ngugi wa Thiongo, the greatest of Achebe's influences. Even Elechi Amadi copied Achebe form and style of writing. He as well as the likes of Okpewho and so many other, are called the "sons of Achebe" by the African literary cycle because their style of writing was influenced by Achebe himself. Achebe was not just the father of African literature because of his book "Things Fall Apart", he the was the greatest because he nurtured African literature through his editorship of the African Writers Series and changed the way African's tell their story by introducing a new form of writing colored with proverbs, fables and cultural symbolism to which every writer of African origin could tell their stories. Achebe was the first African writer to write a true African novel that today the Achebian style of writing has become a yardstick scholars all over the world judge your novel as an African.

BluntBoy:


That book is overhyped.

It didn't liberate Africa in anyway. Instead, it presented Africans as barbaric. Achebe talked about killing of twins, human sacrifices (Ikemefuna's murder) and then painted the whites as liberators. Things Fall Apart is just exactly the same note made by the whites. Achebe was not original.

In another of his novels, No Longer At Ease, he portrayed the Africans as thoroughly corrupt and the whites (symbolized by Mr Greene) as incorruptible.

Achebe simply painted the whites as good in his novels set in precolonial and colonial era.

He doesn't come close to Soyinka in depth, originality and the sustained voice.

Tell me how Things Fall Apart liberated Africans. The only thing it did was even expose us as savages and portrayed the whites like Mary Slessor for instance as our liberators from the worship of dead gods. Read Things Fall Apart, and you will see that Achebe revered the whites and even couldn't hide his disdain for the African religions.

NdiaraIGBO:


This is the reason the racist whites like "Things fall apart" - for its savagery account of IGBO way of life, which the ready racists took for African life. A savage cultureless land of the Igbos.

BluntBoy:


Exactly.

Even though Achebe matured and produced much better and sustained works such as No Longer At Ease and A Man Of the People and his last novel (Anthills of the Savannah), the white race continue to promote Things Fall Apart as a great work of fiction because it blatantly promotes their superiority over the black race.