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hafeeanubasy:
You err alot

EKITI=IKOKORE not AMALA
OYO=AMALA
OSUN=POUNDED YAM ESPECIALLY IJESHA PEOPLE
OGUN= EBA
ONDO=POUNDED YAM

Ikokore is for Ogun state.

nautybride:
I wonder o. Same with gbegiri for ekiti!

E shock me too o.

boxypane:
Ekiti own be like Cameron Map.

That is not Ekiti food, it is for Oyo, he comes out Ekiti Efo riro to Oyo.

agadez007:
Yoruba people done steal Agoyin beans give ondo state

I laugh I he put Ewa agoyin for Ondo.

Ondo and Ekiti are both Efo riro and Pounded yam.

I don't know where he see Gbegiri and Ewa agoyin

😂

You put Efo riro for Oyo state, come put Gbegiri and Ewedu for Ekiti.

Are you playing 😂.

You even put Ewa agoyin for Ondo 😂.

Joke of the century.

Qadaffi2idiamin:
You talk too much...

Most of you from the are enjoying the dividends of Achebe's patriotism but you know not. Do you know what it means to be bitter?

You think because the white bearded cultist won a Nobel laureate makes him better than most African artists?

You are too young to point such finger at an accomplished man like Achebe.

All these nonsense would have been laid down if your grandfather Awolowo allowed the Eastern region to break away as agreed but he became an opportunist just to gain meager favour which has led your region no way.

Shut up if you don't know what to say!

A fool like you can never have sense.

Go and exhume Azikwe and ask him why he went against secession clause that Awolowo proposed because of his greediness.

Qadaffi2idiamin:
You talk too much...

Most of you from the are enjoying the dividends of Achebe's patriotism but you know not. Do you know what it means to be bitter?

You think because the white bearded cultist won a Nobel laureate makes him better than most African artists?

You are too young to point such finger at an accomplished man like Achebe.

All these nonsense would have been laid down if your grandfather Awolowo allowed the Eastern region to break away as agreed but he became an opportunist just to gain meager favour which has led your region no way.

Shut up if you don't know what to say!

Mumu, go and tell EPL that Arsenal is better than city, so they should give them the title.

Paystack:
Achebe and Soyinka no be mate my boy.

Soyinka only got recognition after the works of Achebe brought limelight to Africa

No be only limelight, it is lemondarkmess.

Paystack:
To snap picture with white people now na achievement?

Even Chimamada do this type of meetings every other day

I don't have time for you.

Bring your father's achievements let see.

maestroferddi:
Are you dense or something?

I stated above that Achebe made it abundantly clear that he was prepared to sacrifice his individuality as black man in order to win the award.

He was a man of principle that 1,000 Nobel Prizes could make to change his views and philosophy,,,,

Sharap mugu,

Achebe care about the award, he was just not good enough to win it.

All these you claiming he said is because he doesn't win it.

Stop jealousy of Soyinka because he's a Yoruba man.

He has won it and nothing anyone of you can do about it.

maestroferddi:
I just dey pity your grievous ignorance....

Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela won The Nobel Peace prize which is awarded for humanitarian and charity causes and not the Nobel Prize for Literature....

BTW, spare some time to read up the Nobel Prize...I believe it will help/extend your repetoire of knowledge

I don't care the category with which they won it.

Don't tell me, I know it already.

The fact is they won it.

If your Achebe is good enough, he would have won it

He cared about the award when he was alive, it is because he did not win it that he started ranting how he doesn't care.

gistray:
But that's the truth

Soyinkas work didn't exceed 10 pages at most.
He only gets inspired under the influence of cannabis or Igboh

But he won a Nobel prize.

Show us Achebe, who his work pass 10million pages his own nobel award.

maestroferddi:
You see your life?

Now that your simple-mindedness has been laid bare for all to see you have defaulted to asking a banal if not silly question....

James Ngugi wa Thiong'o authored Weep Not Child, a classic novel referencing the struggle against colonialism in Kenya....He happens to be over 80 years of age and has apparently ticked every box needed to win the award...

But he has been denied it despite global outcry....Do the mathematics and you can then get the memo...

Keep quiet,

Talk about your so called Achebe.

Did he tick every boxes to win it and they did not give him.

The fact is Achebe does not worth being given nobel prize and that is final.

If it pains Una, you all can create your own in ala Igbo and go give him in his grave.

maestroferddi:
See this one...

Go to the Quora you are alluding to and type " controversies of the Nobel Prize" you will see countless topics and comments about the subjectiveness of the award.

The Nobel Prize for Literature became a joke when a Bob Dylan won it while a literary colossus like James Ngugi wa Thiong'o who like Achebe is being overlooked and ignored to being what the Western elements who determine the awardees consider "rebelious and independent-minded".

Oponu, controversy my foot.

When Desmond Tutu won it, it is not controversy

When Mandela won it, it is not controversy.

It is because Wole Soyinka, a Yoruba man won it that only you igbo know the controversy.

Jealous him from now to you perish, his name will remain in their list of winners.

Very insecure tribe.

EmperorCaesar:
These guys actually think their opinion matters In things like this

The world doesn't care at all

That anyone could even try to rubbish the Nobel Prize award shows the quality of education in the East

You can have issues with Soyinka but to talk down the award shows a high level of daftness and unintelligent

Once the winner is not from them, it is rubbish.

Very insecure tribe.

maestroferddi:
Ogbeni leave this place and read!

What transpired between Chinua Achebe and the Academy which confers the Nobel Prize is not secret....He is not the only figure who was overlooked in what he should have won effortlessly.

You think the Nobel Prize in Literature is the beginning and end of existence because you are technically a what is termed an intellectual philistine and literary dinosaur.

Google up recent winners of the award and you will see writers in such genres like children's books and even song writing which is making the prize more or less a mockery.

Bob Dylan won the prize in 2016 for writing lyrics of songs and yret you appear ready to kill yourself on top of ...

Shut up, why Achebe no win am in his life time.

Antivirus92:
so chimamanda is now a prolific writer? Just because she praised the unpopular cultist?
Make sure you hold onto this your stance tomorrow when the topic changes.

Lol, he's unpopular,

It is your father that is popular.

Why are we not talking about your father and his work today? Abi he's not man like Soyinka?

maestroferddi:
You can compile a book with your facetious list but tell me which of the works you listed can hold a candle to:

Things Fall Apart;

Arrow of God;

No Longer At Ease...?

We are talking about Things Fall Apart which has been listed among the 100 greatest novels of all time and you are showing mass production most of which never went beyond the University of Ibadan theatre gallery...

Ode, this place is a US university, you think he's your mumu story telling Achebe who only jealous of Soyinka till death

Afamsi:
you should be ashamed, supporting someone that is a "Jack of all Trade Master of None"

Mumu, master of known but won the greatest award.

Wetin your so called master in story telling win?

Paystack:
Wole Soyinka has no popular work.

An average lover of literature doesn't know any of Soyinka's works .

He just kept spamming people with 2 pages of books every month when he was actively smoking cannabis and sniffing cocaine.

It was same period he founded cultism in Nigeria.

In a civilized country he just have been sentenced long ago

Achebe wished he could achieve like soyinka in life

mrvitalis:
By accidental discovery I meant and yes there are many

Since it is accidental discovery, let your father win a game of ludo in your street by accidental discovery if it is sure for him.

kettykin:
Chat GPT can surpass all of Soyinka's work in 24 hours . It is not about quantity but quality, how many of your books are selling outside ibadan Lagos market

As if your papa can write a simple sentence.

kettykin:
How many of these sold upto 100,000 copies outside the shores of Nigeria. Most of these are short poems and drama and not novels . It is novels that rule the world of literature and not poems.nibhave friends and relatives that have written more poems than this. In this artificial intelligence age , I can surpass this poems and plays in 24 hours

Do it if you can, dont tell us story.

Soyinka is a Nobel prize winner, Achebe is not cos he does not deserve it.

Ogonimilitant:
Soyinka, a men that can not even control his family should not be taken seriously.

Can your own father control his family?

Makavelli001:
I think the comparision of Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe is mischievous at best.

There is no comparison really.

I like to think that what makes someone a SPECTACULAR writer is their ability to tell stories that finds a home in your heart.

I left secondary school MANY YEARS AGO, and I can tell you, that there are literatures I read back then, that I can still remember today... I can remember the dialogues... Incidents...Names... And even the pictures I created in my mind of what I think the writer was trying to portray.

I only read Wole Soyinka because I needed to pass my literature exams.
I remember how we had to debate The Lion and the jewel in our literature class... Soyinka portrayed Africa like a helpless continent that needed western civilization to survive.
I have never opened any of his books since after secondary school.

But I have read Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe more than 10 times.
I have read The Concubine by Elechi Amadi more than 15 times.

I mean, from start to end.

I have replayed different scenarios and different endings in my head.

I have thought about A Things Fall Apart where Ikemefuna did not die...
A concubine where Ihuoma's children didn't hunt lizards on the very day Ekwume came visiting...

These are memories that will remain with me forever because a writer dared intrude my subconscious and made a home there.
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I will chose to read Efuru by Flora Nwapa over any of Woke Soyinka "finest works".

There are at least 10 African writers who I'll read first before I pick any Wole Soyinkas books, like;
Ngugi wa Thiongo
Cyprian Ekwensi
Mongo Beti
Buchi Emecheta
Aye Kwei Armah
Etc.

And No, my submission is NOT because of the politics of "ANYWHERE BELLE FACE' Wole Soyinka has subjected himself to, which has made him a nuisance/laughing stock right now, it's just how I have always felt about his works.
I never connected to ANY of his books, I had to struggle to read, to relate, or even understand them and I have read over 200 books from African writers series alone.

Many Nigerians will easily remember Ikemefuna and Okonkwo more than they can remember any character in Wole Soyinka's books, this is because of RELATABILITY, a writer speaking to the reader in a familiar language.

Chinua Achebe is NIGERIA'S GREATEST LITERARY EXPORT to the world and there is a reason he is called THE GODFATHER OF AFRICAN LITERATURE...

I mean, THINGS FALL APART alone has been translated into 57 Languages!!!

It is not news that the reason why Achebe was snubbed for a Nobel Prize for literature was because he was too committed in his support of African culture and the oppressed, instead of using his platform to serve the interests of big powers in the west who were and are still our puppet masters.

Like the late Nelson Mandela once said; paraphrased, Achebe is the writer in whose company the prison walls fell down.

Achebe is THE GOAT.
There is NO COMPARISON.
Kapish?

That is your own opinion, millions of people will choose Soyinka's book over Achebe's book.

The hatred you have for him is because he won Nobel prize and he's not Igbo.

But who cares anyway, your teeth knashing does not stop him from being great.

This is how election supposed to be.

100k or nothing.

Which useless 60k?

They must pay that 100k

turmacs:
shebi as the guy has successfully scattered the marriage now he is happy? Look at how he just scattered the years upon years of happiness and love they've shared together, just because of ordinance DNA test, shior 😒.. I wonder the kind of weak men we have nowadays.

Tell that to your father.

And Yaya Bello still breathing

siofra:
Old goat.

Maybe after the trash he wrote up there, he'll suggest that women pay dowry for men for useless reason he will make up.

Men marrying more than one wife is our tradition but he wants to bargain paying of bride price.

I don't even care about bride price but Reno is not someone we should listen to on this matter.

He will keep fooling around on the internet until he gets that appointment he desperately needs from Tinubu.

The truth really pain you.

Only a foolish man pays such amount of money for a girl different guys don do different styles with at different angles for free.

2aces:
Na who no get money dey complain about bride price o.
Young man forget marriage for now and hustle like your life depends on it (which it does), so you won't be taking advice from a man who can't afford a pair of shoes.

Women are of different class, and from different backgrounds, find the one that matches yours and in your financial capacity and live in peace, love is overrated.

That girl you want to pay for mr Jeff bezos, many guys enjoy her for free.