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oluamid:
Well then. But please learn to argue in the public space without snide remarks. It doesn't make one sound too intelligent.

You are joking , right ? Please show us all where it was I mentioned 90% and then we can determine if you have not just insulted yourself.

oluamid:
You are making suggestions and passing them off as truths, and that's okay to you? That you see Wole Soyinka as a literary icon doesn't mean you should come to a forum like Nairaland and say 90% of his works are adaptations when they are not. Someone who doesn't know better would automatically think that is true.

And I'm not 'you people'. You made a statement which is not true and I didn't personalise it. Rather, I went about correcting it by giving examples. You should do the same if you think I'm wrong. Don't play to people's emotions by using words like "you people". I don't play that tribalism game that seem to be a favourite on Nairaland these days.

Now I can clearly see your problem !! Have a great week

Nickydrake:
Intelligent response. You need not have made the Soyinka analogy, because it has turned out to be the weak spot in an otherwise sound stance. You have said yourself that there is a duration to copyright. The writers of the Greek classics were taken up to Olympus long before the invention of the printing press, when there was no notion of copyright. This means that their work is in the public domain, so adapting an ancient Greek classic to African culture is not plagiarism, it is more like borrowing.

Sorry boss; but I was just making reference to the issue of adaptation/translation and WS I only suggested as a person who has used this to great gains, I am not trying to belittle his achievements. Wole Soyinka is undoubtedly a great writer . Not my type, but nevertheless good at what he does. Regards

oluamid:
I can't comment on the plagiarism of African Night Entertainment because I don't have any facts and unlike what some people here are already doing, I won't jump into any conclusions just yet.

However, I find it nauseating that every time there's an issue involving any member of the Nigerian literary circle, people like to use the opportunity to cast aspersions on the works of Wole Soyinka as if doing so would somehow lessen the negative press the former literary personality is getting.

How possible do you think it would be that Soyinka's works would majorly be adaptations if he could win a laureate? Which classics did 'Telephone Conversation', 'Lion and the Jewel', or Trial of BrotherJethro adapt? Pray tell. Trust me, adaptations, no matter how well written will never win you a Nobel Laureate. Ask Ola Rotimi who wrote a masterpiece with Gods are not to blame which was adapted from Oedipus Rex.

Cyprian Ekwensi is one of my favourite Nigerian authors and I have read several of his books (Burning Bush, Juju Rock, and Trouble in form six are my favourites), he is a great author in his own right no matter what the truth of this plagiarism allegation is. But please don't dishonour the memory of the man by trying to somehow insult Wole Soyinka's work. It doesn't help.

Sorry boss; but I was just making reference to the issue of adaptation/translation and WS I only suggested as a person who has used this to great gains, I am not denigrating him. Who am I to do this ? Wole Soyinka knew what he wanted to do since he was a child and even in secondary school was a member of the Literary and Drama societies. I have a picture of him from the days. Do you know that Cyprian Ekwensi also attended the same secondary school as Wole Soyinka ? I also did attend that same secondary school. so why should I play one against the other ? You people should please stop overreacting whenever anyone suggests anything different from what you want to hear.

EazyMoh:
[b]I was reading a thread earlier reminiscing with great pleasure when I received the shock of the year. The thread was hosted by the supermod himself Ishilove www.nairaland.com/3228867/nairalanders-how-many-remember-these the thread was about classic novels written in English language.
What caught my attention was the book titled African Night's Entertainment'. Having read both the Hausa and the English versions, I never paid attention to the discrepancy in the names of the authors until I saw it on the thread. I zoomed in the picture of the book to make sure I saw the name of the author correctly. I quickly googled and I was shocked to find out that while the Hausa version 'Jiki Magayi' was authored by John Tafida Umaru and co-authored by popular Hausa writer Rupert East, the English version was claimed to be written by Cyprian Ekwensi!
I simply added John Tafida in the search and I came through this article written by one Ibrahim Musa. I searched further but couldn't find any tangible action taken against this greatest plagiarism of all times in Africa, in fact in the world of literature.
PS for those who can read Hausa if you haven't read the Tafida's version try to do and compare.
When Jiki Magayi was first authored, Cyprian Ekwensi was twelve years old![/b]

www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/art-ideas/ekwensi-s-an-african-night-entertainment-and-john-tafida-s-jiki-magayi/130379.html

[size=14pt]Who published Jiki Magayi and what were the terms of his publishing agreement ? This is what should be your focus and not who wrote what ? Publishing terms are never always the same.
1. If the original writer sold it outright to the publisher , the publisher can assign another writer to write the translation or rewrite the book without giving any credit or money to the original writer. I have previously sold two books to a foreign writer under this sort of agreement with full understanding of the consequences.
2. Have you ever asked who John Tafida Umaru is/was ? The person may not exist and might have just been created by the publisher for the purpose of localising the book. Does he/she have any other literary credit apart from this book ?
3. Was Jiki Magayi still in copyright when Ekwensi did the translation? Copyright typically expires 50 years after the death of the author, if not renewed,
Check the facts properly . Don't criticise unduly.

Most of Wole Soyinka's plays are not original by the way. They are brilliant adaptations of nearly forgotten classics . His plays were good and became famous, made him famous. They were not original in any case and the families of Greek authors who have been dead for centuries are not looking all over for the Nobel Laureate to sue,[/size]