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Survive, but be extremely poor (like their neighbors).

I'm going to start off with "Garlic Ballads." Seems to be available on Kindle for very cheap.

Here is the press release btw: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2012/press.html

A big congratulations to Mo Yan...and of course all others who have won the highest prize in literature.

kayswag100: hmmm...
Finally! I can now LEGALLY ask whether d scarcity of yam has affected the price of garri in d market...
For: Ijebu Crew!

Not cool to blame somebody else for your own behavior.

Ovularia: “It amounts to misplacement of priority for the state government to be throwing a multi-million naira birthday bash while over 500,000 residents, who were displaced by ravaging floods, are still sleeping under the trees at the mercy of the weather.”

wow

Prof Corruption: It's nothing new. Hezbollah, the party of God, is nothing but Iran in Lebanon.

quoted for truth

ehhhhh

Back to topic.

So can anyone recommend a book written by this Nobel prize winner? I'd like to order one and read it.

people don't get it

95%+ of Yoruba are pro-Awolowo.

It could turn out that he was a pedophile or something...I suspect his approval rating would still be high.

People use his name to campaign and run for elections in the SW, for pete's sake.

There is literally nothing one can do to make yoruba denounce him. Especially since he is dead...people tend to get lionized more after death.

Keep listening to Francis Adewale in the 5% while ignoring the opinion of the 95%

hmm.

actually not anything sexy about this picture.

Congratulations to this Mo Yan fellow.

[quote author=ola_pluto]He can actually win the Emeagwali-e-sque nobel prize 'equivalent'. These our brothers sha![/quote]

Meh

Just because the author is Yoruba doesn't mean I have to agree with him.

He is entitled to his own opinion.

There is this one Igbo author who is always attacking Igbos online...do you guys agree with everything he says?

There should be a referendum in Bakassi.

I don't understand why Nigeria just quit without at least trying this tactic.

Chanchit: When I saw the caption, I was shocked by the kind gesture, cos' I know Fashola will never do anything for free.

Free? Elaborate. Are museums free somewhere in the world or something..?

up lasgidi

Your link reinforces the OPs point, rather than detracting from it.

His odds (at least as implied by the common wisdom of gamblers) are roughly 5%.

In other words, the consensus of gamblers is that there is a 95% chance of him losing tomorrow.

Therefore, the OPs original statement is very correct.

Rails is more popular for web projects than Django.

However, Python is a lot more popular as a general programming language than Ruby.

My suggestion is that you go for Python, assuming you will consider using these languages for something other than MVC website design (and I say this as a guy whose primary programming language is Ruby).

20:1 odds seem pretty good to you?

Those are terrible odds.

[quote author=re@lchange]lesson for all igbo
Yoruba cannot be your relation
stop marrying them!
stop developing their land![/quote]Sexy Igbo women should of course ignore realchange's advice, at least regarding me

It really cracks me up, the way folks like Andre Uweh (aka Ngodigha/abadaba) reason.

Like....if you want to create a new account and pretend it is a different person, can you at a minimum try a different writing style?

You are doing the digital equivalent of using this as a disguise:
[img]http://oldbluesocks.files./2010/10/fake-nose.jpg[/img]

DK and Kats:

What you don't seem to understand is that a coup in which
a) the primary actors were Igbo
b) and all of the victims non-Igbo, and
c) in fact all the senior Igbos (Ironsi, Zik, Okpara and Osadebey, etc) emerged unscathed

was a selfless, non-sectarian, patriotic coup for the best interest of Nigeria.

Let us focus on this general's words, lest the thread be derailed (as I suspect some are trying to do on purpose).

^- yup

(CNN) -- A 32-year-old man downed dozens of roaches and worms to win a python at a Florida reptile store, then collapsed and died outside minutes later.
Edward Archbold was among 20 to 30 contestants participating in Friday night's "Midnight Madness" event at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach, authorities said.
The participants' goal: consume as many insects and worms as they could to take home a $850 python.
Archbold swallowed roach after roach, worm after worm. While the store didn't say exactly how many Archbold consumed, the owner told CNN affiliate WPLG that he was "the life of the party."
"He really made our night more fun," Ben Siegel told the station.
Soon after the contest was over, Archbold fell ill and began to vomit, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
A friend called for medical help. Then, Archbold himself dialed 911, the store said in a Facebook post.
Eventually, he fell to the ground outside the store, the sheriff's office said. An ambulance took him to North Broward Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The Broward Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy and are awaiting test results to determine the cause of his death.
No other contestant fell ill, the sheriff's office said.
"Very saddened by this. I mean, it was a shock," Siegel told WPLG. "Eddie was a very nice guy. We just met him that night, but everybody that works here was very fond of him."
Luke Lirot, who says he is legally representing the store, said in a post on the store's Facebook page that all participants "signed thorough waivers accepting responsibility for their participation in this unique and unorthodox contest."
"The consumption of insects is widely accepted throughout the world, and the insects presented as part of the contest were taken from an inventory of insects that are safely and domestically raised in a controlled environment as food for reptiles," Lirot said.
In the wild, cockroaches are scavengers that pick up various bacterial organisms such as salmonella while walking through spoiled food, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene explains on its website.
Cockroaches themselves don't transmit disease, though "many disease-causing organisms can grow and multiply in their guts and can then be deposited ... during defecation."
Pharaoh Gayles was one of those who took part in the contest. He explained his reasoning to CNN affiliate WPTV.
"Some of the snakes were pretty expensive," he said. "I thought if I could eat the bugs to get one, it'd be a good idea."


http://us.cnn.com/2012/10/09/us/florida-roach-eating-death/index.html