₦airaland Forum

shymexx: Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favorably with authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez...

Being knighted in the UK isn't a joke - Ben Okri for President!!

shymexx: Obviously, Mandela will support him since they're the two most overrated Africans ever...

Even Winnie thinks Mandela is overrated - I wonder why Achebe's wife hasn't said the same thing to Achebe...

Anyway, Ben Okri is a realist - and realists 'hang' with realists - hence, why he prefers the Salman Rushdie comparison...

Achebe isn't a realist, enough said...

shymexx: Nah, too bad the literary titans in Africa don't even take Achebe seriously... They always tell him to get a Nobel Prize for Literature and get on their level - perhaps that's why he's bitter....

Anyway, Ben Okri also rejected early comparisons to Achebe - however, he's happy with being compared to Salman Rushdie... Wonder why??

dayokanu: So who is the

Father of Modern European literature, Ancient European literature, Modern American literature, Ancient American literature, Modern Asian, Ancient Asian put it in a list

dayokanu: There should be one father, or how can multiple people be the father of something.

So which is which and give us the quotes referring to them as Father of American/Asian/European literature

dayokanu: Give us their names those cited for Father of Modern American, European, Asian etc Literature

Even Achebe knew it was stupidd to give him such award.

Now we have gottwn to another one, Father of most translated book in the Universe/Solar system, In the world, In Africa, in Nigeria, In Alayibo or in Anambra State?

dayokanu: I am just asking you which organizations performed the DNA to determine these fathers. Someone cant just come from somewhere and say he is the father of Crayola wont a sensible person ask him for the DNA evidence like on the Maury Show?

And BTW what makes me sleep better at night? You want to know? Ok Cuddling Crayola makes me sleep better at night

dayokanu: Nobel is not the all be all, Gordon Bell prize is or some useless award like "Father of internet" and "Father of African literature"

Maybe i should ask which organisation performs the DNA test to determine these so called illegitimate fathers?

oyb: this from the kinsman of 'the father of the internet' - the man who converted gordon bell prize to nobel prize

awon second besters making noise

dayokanu: The Nobel is the pinnacle of academic achievement. Isn't it disgusting that Igbos like you whose lineage can never smell it are down playing the nobel

Crayola1: Obama won the Nobel. I like Obama but even I could see that it was a bit funny for him to win it Nobel is not everything son...

dayokanu: Only that Greatest writer wasn't deemed good enough to win the greatest prize in Literature the Nobel

nnenna.1:
^^^^
Very Nice!

nagoma: I wonder what Okonjo -Iweala is thinking about. No body in Nigeria knows.She must be keeping it to herself.
At least Achebe has always been a thinker except fotr his recent senile paranoid delusions captured and made into a book.

geez*:
Someone gets up from bed and the first thing you can post for the day is this? I know you can't be sacked because you don't have a job neither can you sack because you don't own a business. You're an unemployable retard

dayokanu: The daily Igbo bitchathon in full force.

I would be back after reading it all

tomakint: You are full of jokes! Sounding like one 'Malaika' just stick to your guns, no one is taking you too seriously, I hope you know that?