anayolity:

where did you get the book from please?

Jayslicky:
CLICK like if u think chinua achebe was a better writer than wole soyinka.

Jayslicky:
CLICK like if u think chinua achebe was a better writer than wole soyinka.

OkunrinOloro:
Chinua Achebe was a writer of popular folk fiction. Wole Soyinka is a cerebral, philosopher whose writings can only be appreciated by men and women of deep intellect and proven academic credentials.

Comparing Achebe with Soyinka is like comparing the intellectual loftiness of Shakespearean literature with simple African folk tales. It's not a fair comparison because Achebe will always come out looking second best.

There's a reason why one of them won a Nobel Prize and the other was never even nominated.

Just pick up one of Soyinka's books like The Interpreter and compare it with Things Fall Apart. Read both of them and then come back to this forum and tell us which one showed a much deeper insight into the frailties of human nature and eternal struggle between individual freedom and societal norms.

I even rate someone like Cyprian Ekwensi as a better writer than Chinua Achebe.

chesterlee:
Greatest writer Africa has ever produced

With a Biafran nobel laureate price

Jayslicky:
CLICK like if u think chinua achebe was a better writer than wole soyinka.

Gratefulheart01:


You spoke well, i read the translation of igbo olodumare into English by Soyinka. The nigga is good. Achebe too is good all the same

grayht:
Things fall apart...
Great novel!

Chinua achebe makes me remember the likes of "njeroge" weep not child

koolaid87:
Too bad tribal sentiments wont even let me pick his books up but would rather go ahead and read about foreign affairs.


That has to stop cos I'm buying his book first thing tomorrow morning


So help me God

Urchman200:
How this man did not win a Nobel prize is beyond me

Asshurbanipali:
Anambra is a superior black race.

PharoahIII:
As a writer, I think I am in a better position to comment on this topic. Firstly you must appreciate that Achebe's mastery of the English language was second to none, although he did not have a flair for words as Soyinka does. In terms of scene depiction, Achebe was a genius. Achebe could describe a scene like none other. Achebe had total control of his audience, he knew how to keep them on their toes, wanting and practically begging for more. This is a feat Soyinka simply could not achieve. But in terms of consistency, I'll give it to Soyinka.
Soyinka's best work till date remains Death and the King's Horseman (The first time I opened this book I knew I was in literary heaven). If one were to take this work away from Soyinka, Soyinka will still be Soyinka. But if you take Things Fall Apart away from Achebe, Achebe will be a nobody. He'll be like a disrobed emperor. His other works were quite quotidian. Achebe was a master storyteller and writer, and Soyinka, more of a writer than a story teller.
If I had to choose between the two, I'd choose Soyinka, and that's only because storytelling in itself is a more difficult craft to master than writing.
Things fall apart is not a book, it is a bible.

Urchman200:
How this man did not win a Nobel prize is beyond me

PrincessJr:
...The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart, the center cannot hold... mere anarchy is loosed upon the earth...

tohyorsih2:


Ogboju ode ninu igbo olodumare

Homers123:
This is quoted from W.B Yeats The Falconer.

Nbote:


U are not in any position to comment... D ppl who are best placed to comment on d topic have spoken and chosen d best 100 works ever written... All U jus typed were ur opinion which in dis case doesn't matter

PrincessJr:
Oh I thought it was culled from Chinua Achebe’s, didn’t remember where I read it. The second coming actually?

Jayslicky:
CLICK like if u think chinua achebe was a better writer than wole soyinka.

9jaBloke:

You are indeed a writer.

MajesticD:
How did we get to this point of senseless tribal sentimentality as a main percept on every issue. What's wrong with appreciating both on their strengths and being constructively critical in a way that's devoid of any show of tribal superiority.