₦airaland Forum

0lumide: Exactly what has Achebe done to help development in Africa? What has he done?

Name one thing he has done instead of accusing people of being tribal.

Will the English people call Shakespeare a hero?

Sydney Sheldon? You people are dumb nut jobs

Go to the post on obituaries of Achebe and read that yourself dude. Stop exhibiting ignorance here joo.

solomon111: So much stupiditty being exhibited on this thread.
Imagine some idiotts asking what Achebe contributed to Nigeria's devt.
Are you fuccking kidding me?
Achebe could pass for the greatest Nigerian ever.!!

Don't mind the southwestern idiots.

[quote author=~Bluetooth]The triaslistic bas't'ard succeeded in planting hatred in the minds of his people.


That is one hell of an achievement.[/quote]Yea. And ur tribalistic war criminal cum ex-convict, died of suicide from rat poison. That is one hell of an achievement.

[quote author=Mr. Globe]What more is there to be said. Nairaland is like a field where retartded individuals have the opportunity to display foolishness and relate with smart and intelligent folks. The Op will have such fraudsters as awolowo, Fashola and Tinubu as a hero and contributor to the development of Nigeria as against people like Achebe and Soyinka[/quote]Achebe was a pan african. His views go beyond the shores of nigeria. If the OP fails to see what he contributed to nigeria, then thats his biz. Awo was great but only in his own Yoruba enclave. Achebe on d oda hand is a world renowned figure.

bolaino: I know I'm going to get lots of insults thrown on my person after creating this topic, but to me the truth is better, I'm not a tribalist or an ethnic bigot, on the other hand I'm a proud Nigerian, one who believes that there is still hope for our great nation, I grew up reading literary works of chinua achebe, and I enjoyed his master piece (things fall apart) so much that I always re enacted this story whenever I was bored while growing up, the author of the book seemed bigger than life to me then, but growing up I discovered one thing about this man, he was a sadist, a pessimist, and a bad critic, he never saw the country Nigeria amounting to anything, he was always quick to condemn from the high pedestal which the "white man" put him, no doubt he has made Nigeria proud in the aspect of literature, but what has he done to help build this country? This is a man who spent half his life abroad pointing out problems of this country, but never offering sound possible solutions to these problems, this man hated his father land so much that he refused a national award twice, I believe that his refusal to accept the national awards stemmed from his hatred of his fatherland, not solely cos he felt the governments had failed the people, this man was not a man of the people as most people are claiming, rather he was a man against the people, he was a doomsday individual, he was hoping for the collapse of this our great country, he hated the market woman, the taxi driver and even the lawyer, he saw Nigerians as a people who could never change for the better, chinua achebe made us proud with his literary works, but aside from that he did not contribute enough for the over all development of this country, we've heard of great doctors who left the western world to come and practice in bush Africa, these men are the kind of people we should look up to, let me not say more, but I believe I have made my views known, may his soul rest, I hope he is buried in the United states.

Another useless rant from another Yoruba man.

Akshow: childish and lame. Bigots like[b] you will even make me insult MY FATHER'S bitter, crippled, hating self[/b]. There i insult him! Kill your self or go take a dive in the lagoon. I am a senseless ogbuefi swine

OK.

Dem don use them do money rituals.

pendo89: so what happens next.I don't know football.

Go take a hike in Maiduguri!!

4chi: ...unfortunately Achebe himself did not adhere to this cardinal principle when he was running his mouth when Awo died. Hope his ibo kinsmen appreciate his passion for them and they accord him a good burial. Shame, he could have aroused so much national euphoria but for his utterly bigoted fart of a book called "there was a country".

LAST TIME I CHECKED, ECOMIUMS WERE POURING FROM ALL OVER NIGERIA (with d exception of some bigot Yorobbers of course) AND EVEN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. Accept it dude, AWO was just a local champion and is nowhere as famous and revered the world over than our Prof Chinua Achebe. You may kindly go for a drink of rat poison if e dey pain you for body.

Akshow: I am an Ewu Burundi what is 'to do 2go'? I am worse than a Silly imp.

OK. I AGREE WITH YOU.

[quote author=Eko Atlantic#]So some Nigerians even married those ugly HIV abi na Aids carrier south Africa women [/quote]Are you finer than them? Syphillis carrying Eko woman

Akshow: point out any where in my posts where i disrespected the late prof.

Akshow: Op for real you expect us to read all this? All this story is boring.

Congrats to Omotola and her husband.

taharqa: I still am unable to process that he is gone. Achebe was not just my Best writer, he was one of d very very few humans, dead or alive, I took as a Teacher esp as a Scholar and a pan-Africanist... You can undastad the utter DISGUST I felt when sm small minds (and we unfortunately hv lots of those on NL these days) actuali attemptd to induct him into NL's Hall of Shame cos of HATE and a dilipidating IGNORANCE that rests on Stupidi.ty. The Intervention of @Seun, stopping dat charade, was about d best things he ever did in my view. The alternative wud hv causd INCALCULABLE Demage..... I wish Nigerian Youths can start reasoning FOR themselves, and stop following the CROWD

The so called youths were all ignorant demented YARIBAS. Little wonder then that they behave just like their fathers did before them.

Akshow: as if e read the entire thread himself. So i should spend my whole time readin eulogies abi? For idle urchins like you that's possible. No time for that for me.

Keep on fooling yourself. If it is to do 2go, you will spend 10hrs. Anu mpama.

Where Tuface and Soundsultan na??

All foreigners of Arabian and Muslim origin should be rounded up as suspects

Akshow: Op for real you expect us to read all this? All this story is boring. Rip the father of African literature will suffice. Abeg Na when be naija match

. Herein lies the problem of our young people today. By the age 14, Chinualumogu Achebe had read more than 20 novels ranging from Shakespeare, Keats, Defoe, e.t.c, yet this Yeye boy is complaining about just a few pages of eulogies. I pity the present generation of kids.

I am indeed amazed after reading all these eulogies pouring from all over the world. It also amazes me how one man's book can influence a whole continent, nay the entire world. Prof Chinualumogu Albert Achebe remains one of the greatest Africans ever. He will forever remain my mentor.

godello: Veteran writers and Achebe’s compatriots, Prof. Wole Soyinka and J.P. Clark, have linked his death to the bomb attacks that occurred in Kano on Monday.

In a joint statement they issued on Friday, entitled “On the Passing of Chinua Achebe,” they noted that his death might have been hastened by the shock from the violence that those they described as Achebe’s people suffered during the attacks.

The statement read, “For us, the loss of Chinua Achebe is, above all else, intensely personal. We have lost a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer and a doughty fighter.

“Of the ‘pioneer quartet’ of contemporary Nigerian literature, two voices have been silenced – one, of the poet Christopher Okigbo, and now, the novelist Chinua Achebe.

“It is perhaps difficult for outsiders of that intimate circle to appreciate this sense of depletion, but we take consolation in the young generation of writers to whom the baton has been passed, those who have already creatively ensured that there is no break in the continuum of the literary vocation.

“We need to stress this at a critical time of Nigerian history, where the forces of darkness appear to overshadow the illumination of existence that literature represents.

“These are forces that arrogantly pride themselves implacable and brutal enemies of what Chinua and his pen represented, not merely for the African continent, but for humanity.

“Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua’s people in Kano, only a few days ago, hastened the fatal undermining of that resilient will that had sustained him so many years after his crippling accident.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/kano-bombing-may-have-caused-his-death-soyinka-clark/

Achebe was a great man. RIP.

tomakint: Woe betide any Southerner (southwest, southeast and south-south) campaigning for the return of any Funky Mallam (especially from the core North) to rule Nigeria again!

The Yoruba led APC is doing just that.

The 72 virgin seekers at it again.

VIRGIN SEEKERS ON THE PROWL!!!

That's good of them. But sha, na chicken change for them.

xtayle: GBAMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!

Catholics are not suicide bombers.

Alfamann: unfortunately for you mr latunji, i am not a christian and much less a caholic so i am not obliged to have any dialogue with crazy people like you.

So go back to your cave and don't answer me so as not to disturb my guinness and bacon lunch.

Hmmm... O boy, Maclatunji go vex for you now, move this thread to muslim section.