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dayokanu: How come Wole Soyinka doesnt lose sleep over Booker T award and Father of Literature award

But na Achebe people wan die because of Nobel.

I thought they said Nobel is irrelevant and substandard, Why una wan kill unaself on irrelevant and substandard Nobel prize?

Why is soyika so bitter and frustrated that Achebe is the father of modern African Literature?

crimo4us: "Asiri Nla (Top secret)" was the first home video in Nigeria written and produce in 1990 by late Muideen Alade Aromire. Stop quoting the retard blogger who wants to claim originalty and superiority like other igbo folks.

My friend shutup!
You can only deceive your gullible brainless Yorubas.
Igbos owns and started nollywood 100percent.
Until 'Living in Bondage' there was nothing known as nollywood and home video, the same way until Chinua Achebe's TFA there was no African work that brought and gave Africans a sense of pride on the world stage.

Igbos have done Nigeria proud more than any group.
Nollywood was founded and developed by the igbos we will not allow Yoruba people to come infest it with their dirtiness and diabolism.
Igbos are the Americans of Nigeria.

rhymz: Eagle eyes has succinctly answered youe subtle tribal pettiness. It is so comfortable for you lot to parrot about Wole Soyinka's greatness with every exaggerations possible yet the honorary title given to Achebe that has stuck becomes a problem all because even though it is mere honorary title, it towers above your tribe's man overrated Nobel Laureat.
Besides, I read the said interview, Wole sounded down derisive and patronizing when talking about Achebe, nobody needs him to put up appearance and act like he does not have issues with the man. Using all that unecessary and evasive grandstanding explanation to make a simple idea seem ambigious and confusing when he could have just said, Chinua and I are not particularly close but we share mutual respect for eachother, kappish!

With all his patronizing descriptions and baseless suggestive statements to make it look like the man had problem with his Nobel award, to the point of making statements that can not be proven and credited it to Chinau, how childish can Wole get. .scheeew! The man is full of himself and finds it difficult to be humble and let others blow his own trumpet.

When asked about the new generations of writers and who he prefers, the egocentric Wole could not even bring himself to even talk about anyone in particular, at best, all he had to say was that he read many of them during traffics and sometimes fights the temptation to fling some out of the windows, what an encouragement from Wole Soyinka to the new generation of Nigerian Writers, very cheeky!

Yet this same man has problems with people who had been inspired by Achebe's humility, efforts towards getting not just his own works but those of other great africans out to the world through his pioneering and collaborative publishing effort with Christopher Okigbo another accomplished litrary giant. What was Wole's response to such effort, uneccessary show of superiority and protest that he will not allow his books to be published by the heinemen publishing firm that had seen the efforts of the African Writers Series and decided to collaborate with them, after his lame explanation of not wanting his books to be categorized by such efforts, what did he do, he took his books to another whiteman's publishing firm to be published. . . Scheeew!
His grouse was probably because he did not want his coleagues to edit his work, not too good for his Ego, i guess!

Wole Soyinka is no match for Achebe in the litrary world, Achebe has done a lot for a African literature, Achebe wrote so that other African writers can write believing that their books wont be type-cast just as another book written by an african without the language ambiguity to impress on the english man of the writer's mastery of his language, Achebe just wrote like an African and told every other african to dare to do thesame.
I have said my piece.

The last straw that broke the camel's back. Achebe is truly Africa's best and father of modern African literature.

payless: What has he done? Renovated an airport which was over inflated by 500%. Tell me what Jonathan has done for Igbo race. Adopting Azikwe as his name does not make Jonathan an Igbo man. You can paint a pig lips with lipstick, the pig still remain a pig. Igbos do deserve a lot from Nigeria as they have been the most marginalized ethnicity in Nigeria. I am Yoruba by the way.

Igbos need to get their acts together and Nigerians are ready to vote for them. To do that, they have to get rid of sychophants among them and let people like Chime or Okorocha speak for them.

Strike the clown and clueless okorosha out from your list. We already have quality leaders in abundance go back to your dungeon and preach to your people how to emulate us on advancement.

Afam4eva: At the end of the day, all of them are follow follow. Rochas is following Tinubu and Buhari while Amaechi is romancing the North in a bid to get the vice-presidential slot. I'm not that keen on Igbo presidency. I just want someone that will fix some very important problems in the SE and to be truthful, Jonathan has tried in that regard. He's done what past administrators have failed to do for decades. Let's speak the truth when we see it.

You do not need to enlighten that guy, he is irredemable. GEJ has done so much for SE more than all the past govts put together. Obi as a forsighted saw this and woed ndigbo to vote massively for GEJ in 2011, we will do same in 2015.
Traitors like okorosha should be weeded out of our midst, heard he is a northerner born by one Taraba state farmer. He is not even an igboman no wonder he is playing his northern cousin,s card.

Ola Johnson: Read my comment, removing your tribal bigotry cap, you will realize that there was no way, even more than twenty years before his death, CA could have won the Prize. He was compensated with a none-existing prize.

Achebe does not need the political noble prize, but the noble prize needs the most influential African icon, the most read African book author-Chinua Achebe to restore its diginity and integrity around the globe. Deal with it

rhymz: Eagle eyes has succinctly answered youe subtle tribal pettiness. It is so comfortable for you lot to parrot about Wole Soyinka's greatness with every exaggerations possible yet the honorary title given to Achebe that has stuck becomes a problem all because even though it is mere honorary title, it towers above your tribe's man overrated Nobel Laureat.
Besides, I read the said interview, Wole sounded down derisive and patronizing when talking about Achebe, nobody needs him to put up appearance and act like he does not have issues with the man. Using all that unecessary and evasive grandstanding explanation to make a simple idea seem ambigious and confusing when he could have just said, Chinua and I are not particularly close but we share mutual respect for eachother, kappish!

With all his patronizing descriptions and baseless suggestive statements to make it look like the man had problem with his Nobel award, to the point of making statements that can not be proven and credited it to Chinau, how childish can Wole get. .scheeew! The man is full of himself and finds it difficult to be humble and let others blow his own trumpet.

When asked about the new generations of writers and who he prefers, the egocentric Wole could not even bring himself to even talk about anyone in particular, at best, all he had to say was that he read many of them during traffics and sometimes fights the temptation to fling some out of the windows, what an encouragement from Wole Soyinka to the new generation of Nigerian Writers, very cheeky!

Yet this same man has problems with people who had been inspired by Achebe's humility, efforts towards getting not just his own works but those of other great africans out to the world through his pioneering and collaborative publishing effort with Christopher Okigbo another accomplished litrary giant. What was Wole's response to such effort, uneccessary show of superiority and protest that he will not allow his books to be published by the heinemen publishing firm that had seen the efforts of the African Writers Series and decided to collaborate with them, after his lame explanation of not wanting his books to be categorized by such efforts, what did he do, he took his books to another whiteman's publishing firm to be published. . . Scheeew!
His grouse was probably because he did not want his coleagues to edit his work, not too good for his Ego, i guess!

Wole Soyinka is no match for Achebe in the litrary world, Achebe has done a lot for a African literature, Achebe wrote so that other African writers can write believing that their books wont be type-cast just as another book written by an african without the language ambiguity to impress on the english man of the writer's mastery of his language, Achebe just wrote like an African and told every other african to dare to do thesame.
I have said my piece.

You have e-lynched these people finally.
There is no question world over that Achebe has affected lives positively than any other African. Achebe is the Africa's most influential icon-Forbes.
Achebe is the patriarch and father of modern African Literature which surppases any political noble prize. Soyika should deal with these realities so that he does not die out of frustration.

Saharareporter has just lost an addict..

Pontaboki :
Am in Owerri and you are my Governor,but sincerely you are a fool.You have just again closed down the Market for the second time in 2days over nothing.Now your APC masters have told you to open your mouth to say Nonsense,my happiness is that you Know Imo People are not with you in this your APC journey.You how you won election,everybody fought for you,ask yourself how many of those common men on the street are still with you today.Come 2015,the North will not make you Vice President and you will be the final loser.Amadioha Eligwe gbagbue kwa gi!

SECONDED

Some states should be annexed by these mega and powerful states.

Obi is the game changer for the race to Zik's Place (Govt House Awka).
Whoever that Obi will allow to ride through his back becomes the next governor. We need somebody that will continue with the Obi revolution.

emiye: I am talking of Anambra state

Which Anambra are u talking about? The Light of Nation- Anambra is the most political developed, sophisticated and important state in SE are not gullible people like you guys. Obi the strong man of SE politics is full of surprises that are capable of taking u people by storm. Whoever Obi chooses wins the next election.

Toktee: I search through your previous posts but have seen nothing but blind argument all over,the last time i checked, you said ameachi is heading to desaster, but today he overcome ur mentor in aso rock.
You make so much noise about obi and hiz tranformnation agenda in anambera state but there iz nothing on ground to show for....,cos you are from anambera you see nothing good in imo state,you even called rochas "thug"can you immagine that;at ur age you talk like a kid,pls grow up!

Your grammar is a disaster. Go back to nursery school, unlettered people like u does not worth trading words with.

FYI: okorosha is a monumental failure, who has kept talking and amassing huge loans and heaping up debt for his poor state with no dot on the ground to show for all this. He is clown and must be thrown out soon so that Ohakin can take over immediately.

This is a good development. They should do everything possible to remove this thug, clown and clueless parading as a governor.

Peter Obi job creation strategy. Development traversed all sectors, Obi is doing just that, giving enabling environment to FDIs, foriegn and indigeous investors to storm Anambra. Anambra is where the action is..
Obi brought Sabmiller-Onitsha, LG Electronics Mall/Boutique Hotel-Awka, Shoprite Mall-Onitsha, Orient Petroleum-Awka, Chrisoral Group-Onitsha, Orange Drugs- Onitsha and many more..

eagle,eye:
Go and read Mandela's statement at the passing of Achebe. You can google it.
Just like you are here arguing blindly, if someone from your country who is well grounded in the literary world comes here, he wouldn't make some of the disgraceful statements you are making.

Don't you know that that lad is a yeroba? Do you need an oracle to decipher it? The only people in the world feeling bitter and inferior about Achebe status as the Patriarch of modern african literature are these minority tribe called soyika his yeroba people. They are usually dark skinned beggarly like their hausa master

Ola Johnson: You may call them useless papers owned by the Yoruba. What stops your people from owning theirs. What happened to Nnamdi Azikiwe's West African Pilot, when Obafemi Awolowo's Tribune is still functing?

Go check the meaning of father in the dictionary. Your father is your father because he gave birth to you. Did Chinua Achebe give birh to prose, novel or fiction? No!

Before Achebe there was nothing of such accredited to Africa. Achebe brought the African version of Novel, Fiction and Prose. That is why the world over he is known as the father of modern African Literature.

Maybe you should take up this fight with Nadine Gordimer, Mandela and other world medias that recognozed Achebe as the only academic and literature giant out of Africa after Mandela. Get learned.

Amaechi is headed for disaster. He is most likely to end up like Ibori. There are huge financial case that are being piled up against him. Nobody fights with presidency and goes free, unruined and undestroyed.

Achebe remains the greatest African after Mandela.

Says; “he is one of the most important and influential writers in the history of Literature in English”

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England (the ‘first bishop’ of England), and the head of the global Anglican communion, the Most Reverend Justin Welby has sent a letter of condolences to the Achebe family and has asked his distinguished World Mission Adviser Rev Canon Andrew Charles Wheeler of the Diocese of Guildford to be his representative at Professor Chinua Achebe’s funeral in Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria, on May 23rd, 2013.

The Most Revd. and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby described Professor Achebe as “a wonderful poet and novelist and one of the most important and influential writers in the history of Literature in English. [Professor Achebe] was a world figure, and played a significant role in shaping my own understanding of Nigeria and of the post-colonial era….I would like to express my admiration for his courage in pursuing justice and integrity…He was a tremendous human bring, and also a family man…”

Archbishop of Canterbury was Born in 1956 in London, was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied history and law. For 11 years – five in Paris and six in London – he worked in the oil industry, becoming group treasurer of a large British exploration and production company. He focused mainly on West African and North Sea projects. During this period he became a lay leader at Holy Trinity, Brompton in London, having been a council member at St Michael’s Church in Paris.

His father’s family were German Jewish immigrants who moved to England to escape anti-Semitism in the late 19th century, and integrated quickly. His British ancestors, on his mother’s side, include several clergymen.

A major influence both on Justin and his wife Caroline was their experience of personal tragedy. In 1983 their seven-month old daughter died in a car crash in France. Six years later in 1989, after sensing a call from God, Bishop Justin stood down from industry to train for ordination

He took a theology degree at St John’s College, Durham, in which he focused on ethics – particularly in business. He has since published articles on ethics, international finance and reconciliation. His booklet, ‘Can Companies Sin?’, drawing on his experience in the oil industry, evolved from his dissertation at theological college. He has frequently said that the Roman Catholic approach to Christian social teaching, beginning with the encyclical of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, up to Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas Veritate, has greatly influenced his social thinking.

For 20 years, his ministry has blended deep devotion to his parish communities with Church work around the world, especially in areas of conflict.

An expert on the politics and history of Kenya and Nigeria, he has lectured on reconciliation at the US State Department. In the summer of 2012, he was asked to join the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.

On 9 November 2012, Justin Welby was announced as the 105th Archbishop of the See of Canterbury. He officially became Archbishop on 4 February 2013, succeeding Dr Rowan Williams who retired at the end of December 2012. The new Archbishop was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 21 March 2013.

His interests include French culture, sailing and politics

He is married to Caroline, who studied Classics at Cambridge, where they met. They have two sons and three daughters.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/archbishop-of-canterbury-lauds-achebe-dispatches-emissary-to-funeral/

asha 80: i find it difficult to believe that chino is actually a married man.must be hell living with him.

NL has its on life and spirit that rules over it. You maybe surprise that the dude may even make a better husband than you will ever imagine. Such person may make a lovely hubby.[/b][b]

wow..what a thread

I weep for poor people of imo state. It will not be long before they see how far this clown has wrecked the state financially. It can only be imagined how much this buffoon has paid tinubu and buhari. This has hampered everything in the state. Workers are not paid, contractors are not paid. All the projects he started just to deceive the people has since been abandoned because he has been pushing money out into tinubu account.

Peter Rock Obi ride on..

This is what development entails..

Governor Liyel Imoke said that Anambra State and his own State of Cross River were committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015, even if Nigeria failed to do so.

He was speaking at the Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between 6 participating States for 10 European Union Development Fund with the Ministry National Planning on Thursday at the Minister’s Conference Room.

Imoke’s stand was informed by the fact that Anambra and Cross Rivers State were recently adjudged the best States in the EU’s 9th EDF, which ended on 11th of June, 2012.

A total of 120 Million Euro was spent under the 9th EDF. While the EU provided 94 Million, the participating States provided 26 Million.

Speaking shortly before the signing, Minister of National Planning, Dr, Shamsuddeen Usman said that the approval of the 10th EDF was because of outstanding performances of States involved in 9th EDF. He called on them to even double their efforts to make the 10th EDF better and more beneficial to the people.

He explained that under the 10th EDF, which will last for 84 months, that a total of 80 Million would be spent, with EU providing 80, the participating states 13 and UNICEF 1 Million Euro.

Responding on behalf of the Governors, the Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Liyel Imoke said that the partnership with the EU had brought about veritable results to the communities were various projects from the fund were utilised. He thanked the EU and the Planning Ministry and assured that the participating States would live up to expectations.

Speaking to the press, the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi said that when he attended functions such as the signing ceremonies, that they inspire him to believe that Anambra would in due time overcome all its difficulties, which have been substantially reduced under his Government.

“When I became Governor of Anambra State, no development partner was working or carrying out any project in the State, but today, due to the return of sanity to the State, all of them are working with us and as far as I am concerned, this is very good for the State and we will continue to build on that”, Obi said

The event was attended by the Minister of National Planning, Shamsuddeen Usman, Govs. of Cross River, Liyel Imoke and his Anambra State counterpart, Peter Obi; representatives of Governors of Jigawa, Osun, kano and Yobe States . Also present were the representatives of many development partners in Nigeria.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/anambra-cross-river-best-in-eu-9th-edf/

ndiofeajoka: Look at this wawa goat. You only find your voice when it is fellow Igbo. If it is other tribe now, you will run away.
How many of your Enugu people sef fight for Igbo cause? You only fight fellow Igbos. Anumanu.

You dey mind that b@stardt

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