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naijababe: Isale, i see you. Take your test too. Abi na to only spy on others' result you wan do ?

hahahahahaha. i logged in and was distracted doing something else. it wasn't even on this page. my screen had gone to the front page.

Dante's Inferno Test - Impurity, Sin... and Damnation
A heavy thunder breaks the deep lethargy within your head....

...causing you to upstart suddenly, like a person who by force is awakened. Before you stands an enormous gate with an inscription that reads:

"Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon every hope, ye who enter here."

Welcome to the Dante's Inferno Hell Test, the original and the best. This test, sponsored by the 4degreez.com community (the fine people who brought you the famous Personality Disorder Test), is based on the description of Hell found in Dante's Divine Comedy. Answer the questions below as honestly as you can and discover your fate. Based on your answers, your purity will be judged and you will be banished to the appropriate level of hell. Abandon all hope.


Please select your gender: Male Female
Have you been attending religious worship lately? Yes No
Have you been known to dress provocatively to attract the attention of the opposite sex? Yes No
Do you own or plan to own a flashy sports car or an SUV? Yes No
Have you suffered suicidal thoughts? Yes No
Have you been in any physical fights in recent years? Yes No
Have you ever cheated on a boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse? Yes No
Do you believe in astrology, tarot cards, and fortune-telling? Yes No
Do you donate time or money to charities? Yes No
Are you often very depressed? Yes No
Do you believe in God? Yes No
Have you stolen anything from an employer or friend? Yes No
Are you good at telling lies? Yes No
Do you look at pornography? Yes No
Do you often lose your temper? Yes No
Do you consider food to be one of life's finer pleasures? Yes No
Do you intentionally cause harm to yourself? Yes No
Do you intentionally cause harm to others, or to animals? Yes No
Do you tend to hoard your money and possessions? Yes No
Are you loyal to your friends and family through good times and bad? Yes No
Have you had sex or do you plan to have sex before marriage? Yes No
Do you think science and logic represent the pinnacle of human understanding? Yes No
Do you use God's name in vain (ex. "God damn it," "Oh my God" )? Yes No
Do you enjoy violent movies and video games? Yes No
Have you been to a strip club? Yes No
Do you read scripture? Yes No
Do you like to "live large"? Yes No
Have you wished bad things upon your fellow countrymen? Yes No
Have you ever attempted suicide? Yes No
Do you give food or money to beggars? Yes No
Do you believe it is your right to indulge yourself with every last dollar you earn? Yes No
Have you recently done something that you've criticized others for doing? Yes No
Have you ever visited or called a psychic? Yes No
Do you repent for your sins? Yes No
Do you love to shop for yourself, even when you don't need anything new? Yes No
Do you consider living a virtuous life to be one of your top goals? Yes No
Do you believe in an afterlife? Yes No
Do you "hate" a lot of people? Yes No
Have you ever taken pleasure in someone else's misery? Yes No
Do you have any pagan religious beliefs? Yes No
Have you ever lent money to someone and charged them interest or expected some "extra" in return? Yes No
Have you ever engaged in sodomy (non-standard sex)? Yes No
Have you ever tricked someone into thinking you were someone whom you are not? Yes No
Have you ever seduced someone, only to lose interest soon after? Yes No
Can you see yourself engaging in treason against your country? Yes No
Do you eat at restaurants several times a week? Yes No
Are you ever attracted to members of your same sex? Yes No
Have you ever gotten someone drunk, tricked someone, or used some other underhanded means to try to initiate sexual activity for you or for a friend? Yes No
Would you sooner go without sex than go without good-tasting food? Yes No
Are you a "penny pincher"? Yes No
Have you ever been intimate with a member of your same sex? Yes No
Do you hate yourself? Yes No
Do you often touch yourself in an impure manner? Yes No
Have you ever intentionally given bad advice? Yes No
Are you overweight? Yes No
Think about some of the sinful or wrong things you've done in the past. Do you foresee yourself continuing to do these things? Yes No
Do you make an effort to consume less resources (i.e. electicity, gasoline, plastic, glass, paper, etc.)? Yes No
Could you picture yourself assassinating someone or ordering an assassination on someone if it meant that you would become very rich and powerful? Yes No
True/False Questions
Through God, all things are possible. True False
In war, the best idea is to bomb the hell out of the other country. True False
People are poor because they deserve to be, and should be given no help. True False
Morals are relative. True False
It's okay to punch someone if they "have it coming." True False
Religion is fiction. True False
Some people, such as Nostradamus, are able to predict future events. True False
It's okay to cut a family member out of your life if they have done something that you strongly disagree with. True False
Rich men and women deserve every penny and should spend or save their wealth as they wish. True False
It is acceptable to use false flattery to get ahead. True False
Hammering away on scandals is a good way to damage those with whom you disagree politically. True False
A love-vendor is a good thing to be. True False
Fasting is a way of expressing religious conviction that you have chosen or would gladly choose. True False
Some people just deserve to die. True False


Dante's Inferno Hell Test is based on Dante's Divine Comedy, written in the early 1300s by Dante Alighieri
Background Information About This Test

Link to this test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

Don't feel bad. https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/6.gif

It's not the gospels; it's Dante's Inferno. (I need to read that book, stat! Don't know how I've avoided it this long.)

You probably got "Limbo."

Any little deviation from the anti-Science outline puts you in danger of heresy.

Anyone with a scientific mind will be bungled into heretic category. It's fine - you get to hang chill discourse with the great minds of humanity. Say "Hi" to Galileo, my ol' friend. And Copernicus, too. Oh. I almost forgot Aristotle, that dubious Socrates mouthpiece. But the bestest is The Vince, huh? The Rock star, Leonardo da Vinci himself.


P.S. Anyway, I thank God my religion is not anti-science.

Didn't Indiana coach, Bobby Knight, used to do things like this? Or his wasn't that bad?

Rutgers Fires Basketball Coach After Video Goes Public
By STEVE EDER
Published: April 3, 2013
New York Times

Rutgers fired Mike Rice, the coach of its men’s basketball team, on Wednesday, a day after a video surfaced showing him berating his players during practices, throwing balls at them, kicking them and taunting them with slurs.

Rice’s termination comes nearly four months after the university’s athletic director, Tim Pernetti, suspended him for three games and fined him $50,000, with little elaboration. On Wednesday Pernetti called that decision a mistake and said that he would “work to regain the trust of the Rutgers community.”

Rutgers announced Rice’s termination on its Twitter account Wednesday morning, saying, “Based upon recently revealed information and a review of previously discovered issues, Rutgers has terminated the contract of Mike Rice.”

Rice could not be immediately reached for comment.

On Tuesday ESPN broadcast video from practices from 2010 to 2012 that showed Rice’s conduct at practices. The video went viral, putting scrutiny on Rutgers and prompting the university to take further action.

“I am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of Coach Rice,” Pernetti said in a statement posted on the Rutgers Web site Wednesday. “Dismissal and corrective action were debated in December and I thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but I was wrong. Moving forward, I will work to regain the trust of the Rutgers community.”

The Rutgers president, Robert Barchi, also released a statement calling the initial punishment of Rice a mistake, even though he had been informed of Rice’s behavior and was involved in the decision to suspend Rice and fine him.

“Yesterday, I personally reviewed the video evidence, which shows a chronic and pervasive pattern of disturbing behavior,” Barchi said in the statement posted on the Rutgers Web site. “I have now reached the conclusion that Coach Rice cannot continue to serve effectively in a position that demands the highest levels of leadership, responsibility and public accountability. He cannot continue to coach at Rutgers University. Therefore, Tim Pernetti and I have jointly decided to terminate Mike Rice’s employment at Rutgers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/sports/ncaabasketball/rutgers-fires-basketball-coach-after-video-surfaces.html?_r=0

https://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/04/03/ctm_rutgers_480x360.jpg

https://static6.businessinsider.com/image/515b336decad04373c000012-290-218/espn-has-obtained-video-of-rutgers-basketball-coach-mike-rice-kicking-and-shoving-players-at-practice.jpg

CBS News, includes video:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57577665/rutgers-basketball-coach-caught-on-tape-abusing-players/


ESPN's critical report on Tuesday night, before the coach was fired this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-zjsKsR8wo

Ola one: Means you love your Magnum Irish Cider.

Hmm. Funny. Not.

Reminds me of the time a self-professed Yoruba expert did me the "favour" of defining it (Omoge Saida) for me. Shrug. Back where I started. I'm not saying she doesn't know her Yoruba o. Emi ke? Never.

A very old Naija tv-movie titled Omo Odo.

Roots.

Ola one: Don't forget, you taught me everything oo

Anyone who knows anything about OAM4Jpolygamist knows this is probably true.

I still don't know what Omoge Saida means oo.

naijababe: Ok, because you have so many angry smileys I will free you this once.

Keferi actually means heathen not unbeliever like Isale said but then again Isale is also half Afghan, half something else.

I'm full Afghan, o jare.

Happy Easter all. Better late than never.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ5mAaQfESY

Saw this post in another thread and find it pertinent to our topic. Thanks, Alj.

Chief Balogun Landuji Oshodi Tapa, 1800s, Lagos Island

alj harem: Chief Balogun Landuji Oshodi Tapa was an outstanding warrior and a statesman. During the reign of King Eshilokun, he immigrated to Lagos from Bida in what is now known as the Niger State. This was after he had lost his parents in a tribal war when he was only six years old. He put himself under the protection of the King as his servant in order to prevent himself from being taken and sold into slavery. The King in turn put him under the supervision of one of his trusted men, Fagbemi.

Some years later, one of the Portuguese merchants, a friend of King Eshilokun, asked the king to let two of his children accompany him to Portugal and he promised to bring them back. The King was very wary of this offer and he thought instead of risking the lives of any of his own children, he would offer two people loyal to him. Hence he chose Oshodi and Dada Antonio to go with the Portuguese merchant.

While the King thought he was protecting the interests of his own children, he was in fact denying them an opportunity that would have benefited them more in the future.

Oshodi and Dada Antonio went with the Portuguese merchant to America and they were later returned to the King after many years.

On arrival from America, Oshodi was employed by Messrs. G. L. Gaiser as a Commission Agent and Toll Collector. With the arrival of the ships of the Portuguese merchants, business flourished, and Oshodi’s commissions from sales increased and he eventually became a rich man. Oshodi never forgot the hands that fed him, so to speak; he continued to be loyal to the King and was made a chief solely responsible for looking after the King’s wives. He was the only one who could go into the Queen’s apartment to oversee repairs, if the need arose.

After the death of King Eshinlokun, Chief Oshodi remained loyal to his children. He particularly cast his lot with Idewu Ojulari who succeeded his father. After the reign of Chief Idewu Ojulari, Kosoko, a son of Oshinlokun, was said to be the rightful heir to the throne, but he was an enemy of Chief Eletu Odibo, whose duty was to install and crown any new king. It was said at the time, that young Prince Kosoko had seduced Eletu Odibo’s would-be wife. In retaliation, Eletu Odibo used his powerful position to crown Oluwole as the next King of Lagos in 1836.

Kosoko and other descendants of King Eshilokun were not satisfied with the decision

and were ready to show their resentment. They waged a war against King Oluwole and Chief Eletu Odibo. Kosoko and his warriors invaded Isale-Eko. The battle was fierce and prolonged but ended with victory on the side of the king’s army. Kosoko fled to Whydah, realizing the consequences of his action.



When King Oluwole died, Akitoye was crowned in 1841 as the next King of Lagos.

Conscious of the right of Kosoko to the throne, Akitoye justly decided to search for Kosoko his nephew, who had taken refuge in Whydah. He believed that he must enjoy his patronage while on the throne. Akitoye organized a search party under the command of bold and gallant Chief Oshodi. The rapidity with which the party achieved its success was directly related to the military might of Chief Oshodi.

Kosoko finally returned to Lagos with Chief Oshodi in a vessel belonging to a merchant called, Domingo.



Henceforth, Chief Oshodi worked to maintain peace between Kosoko and Akintoye, and eventually brought the two together on terms. The peace effort was thwarted by Chief Eletu Odibo who had employed all the persuasive words he could, to dissuade King Akitoye from bringing Kosoko back to Lagos. He believed that Lagos would not contain the two of them. For a while, he did all he could to create conflicts between them, but later left Lagos for exile in Badagry.



When a war broke out between King Akitoye and Kosoko, Chief Oshodi loyally pitched his tent with Kosoko, the son of Eshilokun, through thick and thin. Akitoye asked Eletu Odibo to return to Lagos with his warriors to fight on his side. Akitoye’s men led by Eletu Odibo were soundly defeated. Eletu Odibo was captured in an ambush and killed.



With the death of Eletu Odibo, the elders advised Akitoye to escape to his mother’s town in Abeokuta. When Kosoko heard about the plan, he detailed his war chief, Oshodi, to lay ambush for Akitoye, kill him, and bring his head before him. Akitoye was in fact caught by Oshodi in the Agboyi waters, but instead of killing him, he paid homage to him and his Lord and prayed for his safe journey and safe return.



Chief Oshodi returned to report to Kosoko that Akitoye had escaped by the use of a powerful charm which put them all to sleep when he was passing. Historians were not able to assign any reason for the treatment which Oshodi gave Akitoye when in fact he was on orders to bring his head to Kosoko. In 1845, Kosoko defeated Akitoye and ascended the throne. In the meantime, Chief Oshodi remained Kosoko’s “Abagbon” war chief.



While in exile, Akitoye appealed to the British Government for help to restore him to his throne. A war broke out; the British started to bombard Lagos, setting the town on fire. Kosoko’s defense under the command of Chief Oshodi was effective and modern by the international standard of the time. After nine days of consecutive serious military actions, the British fleet unleashed excessive gun power which resulted in the defeat of Kosoko’s fleet. Under this unfavorable condition, Kosoko had to flee to Epe with Chief Oshodi and his warriors on the night of the13th of August 1853.

Akitoye was brought back to Lagos by the British Consul and was restored as the King of Lagos. Akitoye died on the 2nd of September 1853, about two weeks after Kosoko and his men had fled. In the afternoon of September 3rd, 1853, his son, Dosunmu was formally installed as the King of Lagos.

Although the war seemed to have ended with Kosoko in exile, there were sporadic raids on Lagos from Epe; disturbing the peace and trade of the island. The raids caused the British Consul Campbell, the Elders, and White Cap chiefs of Lagos, to initiate a move to reconcile the warring royal relatives.

On the 26th of January 1854, a peace conference, historically known as Langbasa meeting, was held at Agbekin (Palaver Island) about four months after King Dosunmu’s coronation. The British Consul’s party included the Commander of HMS Plato with other officers under his command, and Kosoko’s party which included Chief Oshodi Tapa and Chief Onisemo Adeburusi of Epe. They came without Kosoko in about sixty canoes each containing forty men. King Dosunmu was represented by several white cap chiefs and war chiefs.

At the opening of this remarkable conference, the Epe people, led by Chief Oshodi Tapa expressed their strong desire to return to Lagos a to the British Consul and be at peace with their friends and relatives. Chief Oshodi proposed that Kosoko be allowed to return to Lagos and live as a private person.

The proposal was not agreeable to the Consul on the basis that two Kings could not rein in Lagos. As an appeasement, Chief Oshodi was offered to return alone as the Consul for the people of Epe, but he declined the offer and insisted on Kosoko’s return from exile. Several years later in 1862, Kosoko was allowed back to Lagos with his war chief, after signing a peace treaty negotiated with the British Consul by Chief Oshodi.

Governor Glover was very grateful for Chief Oshodi’s contributions to peace in Lagos.

On their arrival to Lagos, Governor Glover sought permission from Aromire to give part of Epetedo to Chief Oshodi. For himself, his family, his followers, and servants who returned with him from Epe, he held the area under the native customary law of land tenure, subject to the native system of the devolution of land.

The palace of Oshodi is located in the center of the area of land in Epetedo. The area is uniquely laid out into 21 compounds. Four of these compounds; Oshodi, Akinyemi, Ewumi, and Alagbede courts belong exclusively to Chief Balogun Oshodi’s extended family.

For the most notable and extraordinary role of Chief Oshodi in the restoration of peace to Lagos and his contribution to the Government of Lagos, he was presented by Governor Glover on the Lagos Race Course grounds with a sword from Mr. Cardwell, the Secretary of State to the British Government. The sword was inscribed “presented by the Government of Queen Victoria to Chief Tapa in commemoration of the loyal services rendered by him to the Government of Lagos”

With his background of having been to America, Oshodi did not miss the opportunity to educate his children. He solicited Governor Glover to educate one of his children in England. This child later assumed the surname of Oshodi-Glover.

Chief Balogun Oshodi Tapa died on 2nd of July1868 about six years after his return from exile in Epe, leaving forty six surviving children. His body was laid to rest at the center of Oshodi Street in Epetedo, Lagos. The descendants of Chief Oshodi constructed an imposing edifice at his burial site, as a monument to the memory of the renowned warlord, peacemaker, and statesman. This monument has been classified as a historic site by the Lagos State Government.

It remains unclear how the ruling houses were determined by the Chieftaincy Committee under the Obas and Chiefs Law of the century. Nevertheless, the following are the twelve ruling houses in the Oshodi Tapa Chieftaincy according to the Registered Declaration:

Ruling Houses:

1. Feyishitan

2. Eshugbayi

3. Fatusi

4. Obadimeji

5. Jose

6. Lagbayi

7. Sakariyawo

8. Amore

9. Ewumi

10. Kobile

11. Modina

12. Alli-Igunnu

In the event of a vacancy, the order of rotation is as above, starting from Feyishitan Ruling House having taken into account those ruling houses that had produced chiefs after Chief Balogun Oshodi Tapa.


http://www.oshodi.org/history/balogun.html

https://www.nairaland.com/1176293/nupe-families-lagos#14030305

I am sure you know this stuff already, Katsumoto. Gimme a break! Acting all ign'ant!

Keferi is Yorubanised pronunciation of Kafir (non-Muslim).

Not to be confused with South African 'Kaffir' (Black/Darkie/Nigger?)

Dobosky done lost his mind. He's using it (Kafir/Keferi) to mean non-Yoruba, but the general usage is for non-Muslim.

My work is done.

Moses Basket at Babies r Us.

https://www.toysrus.com/graphics/product_images/pTRU1-5354928dt.jpg

More:
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I'm so tired of teaching things!

AjanleKoko: Where did they play this game?

Denver, CO, I believe.

http://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/united-states-vs-costa-rica-matchday-thread-10pm-et.1984621/page-37


BTW, why are you cos there are "not enough mics"?

Nickydrake: I imagine most people are familiar with Washington Irving's fictional character Don Quixote who falls into a magical sleep that lasts the better part of two decades. Of course so many things had changed by the time he woke up. So i was just wondering what it would be like for a Nigerian who encounters the same experience, let's say he went to bed twenty years ago . You could present your views regarding what you imagine his impression of Nigeria as a whole would be or you could use your local area as a more specific angle. Please share your opinions,

Interesting. I am now motivated to re-read that book and apply it to the Nigerian context.

I like your posting style, bro. Dunno why I never noticed you before. . . until I read this today:
https://www.nairaland.com/1222002/homeless-man-feeding-sacrificial-food/2#14723172

cap28: ^^^^

so? they are responsible for causing poverty and chaos all over africa and many non white countries - that is why the people of those countries look for a way to get out and into america.

they became an economic powerhouse using the blood and sweat of your african ancestors:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-AMYos0Js

My darling brother CAP28, still enthusiastic after all these years.

That Wright sermon/speech has been so misunderstood and the reverend so maligned. What is that saying . . . My people perish for lack of knowledge. . .?

The full "God Damn America" speech, plus a longer video excerpt is here:

https://www.nairaland.com/672198/great-speeches-african-black-history/1#8373396

[quote author=Kilode?!]I should take the cue from Isale on this one.. .[/quote]Go ahead, Kilode?!

Feel free to confess your innermost secret. No one here but me nau. Go on. Take a cue from Isale. And take a break from harassing Katsumoto Omowale.

Katsumoto: . . . I am Oduan in spirit, religion, and beliefs. That should mean something.

Confession time o.

Me too I will confess. . .



. . . when the time is right.

obadiah777: NA WHEN DEM MENTION SCROTUM WE GO SEE ISALE GAN2 LMAO

Unliked!

He could have said his heart transferred to his mouth, and I'd still have laughed.

anyaricu: ;DMenn which kind life be dis? My heart don almost transfer go under my
scrotum today.

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They equalise. Last minute. !!!

obadiah777: HUN IF YOU WANT A BETTER STREAM GOOGLE HAHA SPORTS. I WOULD POST THE LINK BUT EVERYTIME I POST LINKS I GET BANNED FOR AN HOUR BY THE SPAMBOT

No worries. Thanks. I'll find something.

For about 10mins I was watching an old Naija-Kenya match someone was streaming on Veetle (in French).

Found it. Hahahaha works.

obadiah777: HEHEHE ISALE GAN2 WETIN DEY SHELE LOVE ? BEEN A WHILE. TRUST ALL IS WELL. ME I NO DEY CAST ASPERSION SHA. TIS CALLED NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT. MAYBE IF I YAB DEM SMALL DEM GO SCORE SOME GOALS LMAO

Dear Buzugee,
All righty then. All is forgiven.
I am well. I trust you are managing well well too.
Love, Isale.

Watching a poor stream in French with no labels screen.

Damn! Anyone watching on Veetle? WTH is streaming an old match?!

edited.

obadiah777: BARRACK OBAMA DONE PROMISE THOSE BOYS AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IF DEM WIN. THATS WHY THEY ARE DETERMINED TO WIN THIS HERE GAME FOR KENYA

Buzugee, my old friend. I take exception to your comments! Strongly. Do not cast aspersions on my patriotic brothers simply doing their bit for Naija o.

Looking for stream.

World Cup Qualifying Matches this weekend.

USA v. Costa Rica, 1-0

Snow soccer, for crying out loud!

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Update:

Man accused of slapping baby on flight pleads not guilty
Posted: Mar 20, 2013 4:58 PM EDT Updated: Mar 20, 2013 10:27 PM EDT
By MYFOXATLANTA STAFF

An Idaho man accused of slapping a toddler on a Delta flight pleaded not guilty in Atlanta's federal court on Wednesday.

Joe Ricky Hundley was charged with simple assault in the Feb. 8 incident. He's accused of slapping a 2-year-old boy during a flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta.

The toddler's mother, Jessica Bennett, told authorities her son started to cry and that's when handle reportedly used a racial slur and slapped the child in the face.

"His mouth was in my ear and he said it again but even more hateful and he was on my face so I pushed him away then that's when he slapped Jonah," Bennett said.

Hundley's attorney, Marcia Shein, told FOX 5 that Hundley was on his way to Atlanta to decide whether to take his adult son off life support after he overdosed on insulin and had been declared brain dead.

"On that flight he was upset stressed and grieving and made comments to Mrs. Bennett he should never had made and is very apologetic for having said what he did and he hopes for everyone's sake that she will heal and forgive him," Shein said.

While acknowledging Hundley made a racial remark, His attorney maintains he never slapped the toddler.

"We believe that what happened that night was an accident or inadvertent, where the child was injured, but it wasn't because Mr. Hundley intentionally or in fact did strike the child in any way," Shein said.

Hundley is scheduled to return to court on April 9. His trial is scheduled to being on May 13.

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/21749757/man-accused-of-slapping-baby-on-flight-pleads-not-guilty

Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82
By JONATHAN KANDELL
Published: March 22, 2013
New York Times

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Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who was black Africa’s most widely read novelist and one of the continent’s towering men of letters, has died after a brief illness, his publisher and agent said in London on Friday. He was 82.

Few details were immediately available.

Besides novels, Mr. Achebe’s works included powerful essays and poignant short stories and poems rooted in the countryside and cities of his native Nigeria, before and after independence from British colonial rule. His most memorable fictional characters were buffeted and bewildered by the conflicting pulls of traditional African culture and invasive Western values.

For inspiration, Mr. Achebe drew on his own family history as part of the Ibo nation of southeastern Nigeria, a people victimized by the racism of British colonial administrators and then by the brutality of military dictators from other Nigerian ethnic groups.

Mr. Achebe burst onto the world literary scene with the publication in 1958 of his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” which sold millions of copies and was translated into 45 different languages.

Set in the Ibo countryside in the late 19th century, the novel tells the story of Okonkwo, who rises from poverty to become an affluent farmer and village leader. But with the advent of British colonial rule and cultural values, Okonkwo’s life is thrown into turmoil. In the end, unable to adapt to the new status quo, he explodes in frustration, killing an African in the employ of the British and then committing suicide.

The novel, which is also compelling for its descriptions of traditional Ibo society and rituals, went on to become a classic of world literature and was often listed as required reading in university courses in Europe and the United States.

But when it was first published, “Things Fall Apart” did not receive unanimous acclaim. Some British critics thought it idealized pre-colonial African culture at the expense of the former empire.

“An offended and highly critical English reviewer in a London Sunday paper titled her piece cleverly, I must admit Hurray to Mere Anarchy!” wrote Mr. Achebe in “Home and Exile,” a collection of autobiographical essays that appeared in 2000. A few other novels by Mr. Achebe early in his career were occasionally criticized by reviewers as being stronger on ideology than on narrative interest.

But over the years, Mr. Achebe’s stature grew until he was considered a literary and political beacon.

“In all Achebe’s writing there is an intense moral energy,” observed Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of Afro-American studies and philosophy at Princeton, in a commentary written in 2000. “He speaks about the task of the writer in language that captures the sense of threat and loss that must have faced many Africans as empire invaded and disrupted their lives.”

In a 1998 New York Times book review, the novelist Nadine Gordimer hailed Mr. Achebe as “a novelist who makes you laugh and then catch your breath in horror — a writer who has no illusions but is not disillusioned.”

Mr. Achebe’s political thinking evolved from blaming colonial rule for Africa’s woes to frank criticism of African rulers and of citizens who tolerated their corruption and violence.

Forced abroad by Nigeria’s bloody civil war in the 1960s and then by military dictatorship in the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Achebe had lived for many years in the United States, where he was a university professor. But he continued to believe that writers and storytellers ultimately held more power than army strongmen.

“Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior,” an old soothsayer observes in Mr. Achebe’s 1988 novel, “Anthills of the Savannah.” “It is the story that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort; without it, we are blind.”

A fuller obituary will be coming soon on NYTimes.com.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html?hp&_r=0

Chinua Achebe, Author of Things Fall Apart, Dead at 82
Max Read
Gawker.com (USA)

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and critic best known for his first novel Things Fall Apart, has died in Boston following an illness. He was 82.

Achebe was born in southern Nigeria in 1930, the fifth child of Protestant Igbo parents, and baptized Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. He was from an early age a remarkable student—his classmates nicknamed him "Dictionary"—and he read voraciously: Shakespeare, Dickens, Booker T. Washington. After a short post-graduation stint teaching English, Achebe was hired by the Nigerian Broadcasting Service in Lagos, where he edited radio scripts and began work on a novel.

That novel would become likely the widest read African novel in history, but it was initially rejected by several publishers. The story of the life of a 19th-century Igbo leader confronting the humiliations of colonialism and missionary Christianity, Things Fall Apart is now a classic, assigned in schools worldwide. At the time it was difficult to sell: an English-language book by an African author. But in 1958, encouraged by an employee who had recently traveled to Africa, Heinemann bought and published the book. Though not a sensation, it was well received, and Achebe's career as a novelist had begun.

Achebe continued to work at NBS even as his stature grew. In 1961 he married a coworker, Christie Okoli; the year before he had dedicated his second novel, No Longer at Ease, a kind of sequel to Things Fall Apart, to her. In 1964 he published his third novel, Arrow of God. He traveled around Africa and was promoted at the NBS; Heinemann chose asked him to edit its African Writers Series, where he published Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's first book. In 1966, at that point a father twice over, he published his first children's book, and a fourth novel, A Man of the People.

In 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria, and Achebe—whose most recent book had closely mirrored the recent political events of his home country—became a partisan of, and eventually ambassador for, the breakaway, largely Igbo nation of Biafra. Despite his efforts to raise awareness of the civil war in the U.S. and Europe, the Biafran military eventuall surrendered, and in 1970 the former boundaries of Nigeria were restored. (There was a Country: A personal history of Biafra, Achebe's memoir of the Biafran War, garnered some acclaim and a lot of controversy when it was published last year).

Two years later, Achebe moved to Massachusetts, accepting a professorship at UMass Amherst. There, he wrote and presented one of the best known academic lectures of the 20th century, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," a brutal summation of Conrad's famous novel that shocked and angered many of his peers. (I can say with some authority that it was still shocking and angering students as recently as 2007.) "An Image of Africa" represented a major break with previous readings of Conrad, and began a new chapter in readers' understandings of Heart of Darkness—one of few books as frequently assigned in English classes as Things Fall Apart.

Achebe returned to Africa in the 1980s, teaching at the University of Kenya and the University of Nigeria and becoming active in Nigerian politics again. His fifth novel, Anthills of the Savannah, was released in 1987. Three years later, Achebe was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident. He moved back to America, where he taught at Bard and then at Brown; in 2007 he was awarded the Man Booker prize. Though Anthills was his last novel, he continued to write poetry and criticism. In 1998, he gave an series of lectures later published in Home and Exile, quoted at length at the Awl, in which he connected his life to his hopes for the new century:

My hope for the twenty-first is that it will see the first fruits of the balance of stories among the world's peoples. The twentieth century for all its many faults did witness a significant beginning, in Africa and elsewhere in the so-called Third World, of the process of 're-storying' peoples who had been knocked silent by the trauma of all kinds of dispossession. I was lucky to be present at one theater of that reclamation. And I know that such a tremendously potent and complex human reinvention of self-calling, as it must do, on every faculty of mind and soul and spirt; drawing as it must, from every resource of memory and imagination and from a familiarity with our history, our arts and culture; but also from an unflinching consciousness of the flaw that blemished our inheritance-such an enterprise could not be expected to be easy. And it has not been.

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