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Chinua Achebe’s Comments On My Nobel Prize Was A Big Disappointment — Wole Soyin by Yungsam1(m): 4:20pm On Jul 26, 2020
In a conversation with an American-based Nigerian novelist, Okey Ndibe, which was aired on Channels Television’s Book Club, Soyinka said he considered the particular remark by Achebe uncalled for and disappointing.

Ndibe had, during the conversation with Soyinka, recalled how Achebe, at one time, said, “The Nobel Prize did not make one the Asiwaju of African Literature.”

He then asked Soyinka how he took that statement at the time....

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Re: Chinua Achebe’s Comments On My Nobel Prize Was A Big Disappointment — Wole Soyin by hisgrace090: 4:27pm On Jul 26, 2020
It hurts him!

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