₦airaland Forum

Mr McJay: ^^Dot mind the fools. When I was in Lagos, Our house was opposite Emeka Anyaoku's house in Ikoyi. Cosmas Maduka stays at Milverton, Ikoyi. Ojukwu and co held properties in Ikoyi and VI.
Where is SLS's official residence in Lagos? Ikoyi.
When BH hammers Ibos in th North, do they go home, where do they go to? Lagos.
Where do they get the money they spend on Onwa December?
When the police kill them and dump their bodies in Ezu River, where do they run to?
When kidnappers hold them in exchange for N100 recharge card, upon release, where do they go to?
Wher do they go to cry? Nairaland. Where is Nairaland based? SW.

Flat-headed Ingrates.

Are you people mad? when will this your obsession of igbos cease? This thread is about Sanusi and Yoruba, how did you manage to drag igbos into it? same thing you did when Ahmadu Ali called Yorubas 'ungrateful'

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is totally right by stating Yoruba are the problem with Nigeria. chikena.

KenGali: What a load of rubbish!
Achebe like many of us African, is a man to whom a Nationality was foisted on. Unlike many of us he has grown to become a world National. An ethnic agenda throwing stones at his personality is like scratching the Mother Earth with stick. Even a mine can only make a scratch that heals all the same.

Yorubas should recognise that Achebe is beyond local politics where you use the media to becloud the minds of the unfortunate, or tells the rest of the world the lies you want them to hear! The man is just too big for your Nigerian Wrestling match.

Behold I spotted the best comment in this whole thread

abdul23: Wats all dis hate on Achebe! Well,he is an icon and i learnt so much from him.He says wat he believe was d truth dats y it is called a memoir.If you dont believe him write ur own memoir and then we compare.He did far more than those corrupt animals parading themselves as politicians and elites that are bent on taking dis country back to stone age.ACHEBE U ARE A HERO AND TRUE NIGERIAN WOULD KNOW WAT U STAND FOR without any hatred and prejudice.RIP SIR

Nice one ABDUL. we know the animals

Madawaki01: Many igbos including ashebe ar stil bitter about how Awo deafeated them without firing a single shot himself,just leave them,let them continue their ranting about Awo...all we are asking is this..how did achebe contribute to d development of Nigeria...by sittin in a mansion at The US and pointin at how Nigeria is a failed state?he didn't even use his writin skills to fight he rather used it to promote hate.
REST IN PIECES ashebe

Awo has been resting in rat poisoined inflicted piece for centuries now. worry about that and leave Achebe alone.

seunny4lif: All Africans greatest of all time More than 4 nigerians oooh....It 5 SW(Wole ,OBJ, Fela, Awo and M.O.Abiola) and 4 SE(Achebe, Philip, Jay Jay okocha ,Zik )1 ND(Ken saro wiwa) and 1Norther (Balewa).....They are make nigeria great but ghana and south africa names a lot........

and am here wondering while you decided to skip Bode George, Tafa Balogun, Sunday Ehindero, Bankole, Patricia etteh, iyabo obasanjo, Adedibu, Tokyo Nurtw, Alao Akala from your SW list of greatest Africans of all time.

Bobandgreat: Yorubas are the problem of Nigeria by Sheik Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. A man they know for his honsty and doggedness in pursuing the truth as he knows it. Chinua Achebe only said Evil Awo comitted genocide and u pple are arguing about his autobiography. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi says Yorubas(a whole race) are the problem of this country. This is a case ofmiplaced priority. Nobody can classify a whole race like that on media and get away with it except its a case of Master correcting Slave.

Ahmadu Ali too called the entire Yoruba race 'ungrateful people' and bounced off with it. Yorubas are the punching bag of the north.

alj harem: You see, when you read lies like this and they pay you with your coin, you would complain. LOL

these are more lies from you. Awo committed suicide from deliberate rat poisoning no propaganda can remove that fact.

alj harem: Emotions Emotion.

Ok,

1, Was Fela a politician ?

2. Is Soyinka a politician ?

3. Is Bill Gate a politician ?

etc

My brother think without EMOTIONS here

and list what this people contributed to their nations that Achebe didn't

alj harem: ok how has this improve the life of any average man ?

This is not about Awolowo but if you must know. That NTA channel which is the first television station in Africa before likes of France had one started as WNTV from Awolowo.

Nigeria for many years had only NTA as the best channel station in Africa. That is an achievement to the life of any AVERAGE Nigerian.

Also since he gave free education to his Yoruba people, their are thousands of Ijaws and Igbos that benefited from it. The first school he built was in Urhoboland.

I am a private citizen and not know like Achebe because I know if I die, I might not get the honour Achebe is commanding out of ignorance.

If Achebe is to be respected, then we all should see his impact or am I talking out of ignorance here ?

The fundamental fact has not be stated here. The question has not be answered by the so called educated intelligent people

What a slowpoke. you are a private citizen and not known like Achebe? Is Achebe a public or govt official? is he a politician? what is the difference between you and Achebe that makes him eligible to contribute to Nigeria while you are not? And I wouldn't want to respond to those your awo lies until you repeat it again.

alj harem: You would not be saying this if Achebe had won it

Why are you people so hypocritical ?

Moreover if Achebe knew that, why didn't asked them to drop out of the race last year ?

only lazy and jobless people care about awards. like Nobel, like Grammys like Oscars, should I give you a list of befitting individuals who have been snubbed by this awards? has Nobel stopped Achebe from being the greatest African literary icon ever? Nobel prize needs Achebe to validate itself not vice versa

alj harem: No I am a true born Lagosian from the royal family. I am half Awori(father) half Egun (mother).

I am not being a tribalist here, teach me and I would understand. I do not intend to stand on my point if I am ignorant here.

Tell me the positive impact Achebe achieve in the life of an average Nigerian. Give me good sensible achievements and I would drop this argument.

his achievements for Nigeria as a politicians or private citizen? what is your own achievement for Nigeria since Achebe is also a member of the public like you? Are you also worried you are not a true Yoruba according to awo since you are not ijebu?

crimo4us: . Nobel prize is the prize you get when you are the best in the world in a particular field of professionalism, Wole Soyinka got one and Achebe got none, both of them are literary icon.Wole Soyinka got the prize for literature not activism.Measure greateness in professionalism with achievement.

Nobel prize is a price awarded by white racist folks. Nobel lost its value when they denied Achebe the award. Nobel or none Achebe has the highest ever selling literary work in Africa and has been crowned the father of African literature . That's what we call achievement not some award by some fat old racist folks in Norway.

alj harem: [b]Page 15 THESE IGBO Bigots have not told us Achebe's achievement for Nigeria. The impact he made and how he has helped people.

3 months after releasing hate filled book and Igbos rejoicing that the level of tribalism by their Icon he died. Is that not enough sign that even the elements are not happy when Idio.ts cause strif among brothers and friend.

I wonder whether these people acutally read their Bibles and yet they claim to be righteous Christians unlike Muslims.

No one is happy with his death and we as a nation have paid our respect to the bigot, not that because he was a good writer but because we know how sentimental these igbo people can be.

Now they can't answer a simple question, all we are seeing is insults on Yorubas people and their leaders even though no one insulted theirs.

I would not digress any further with introduction of Tribalism in the 50's thanks to Nnamdi but the fact remains that this modern times when people are already mixing, Achebe an elderly man did not USE WISDOM to write his book.[/b]

Are you from Ijebu like Awolpwo? Only Ijebus are true Yoruba according to awo (frog)

Efikman: Tinubu and Fashola fighters Abi treasury looters...... Please visit the nearest psychiatric hospital for evaluation.

Blame ewedu and amala.

am out here lmao... We demand an unconditional public apology from the ignorant mod motivated by tribal emotions for wrongly effecting bans on individuals

Eko Ile: what deference does it make? Even spelled Achebe, its not like you people are ready to answer any question.

BTW, why are you crying about ashebe especially how you people spell and insult other peoples names. Don't start what you can not finish.

Do you mean Tinubu?

Damn, do awo even discriminated against ijebus? wth!! This is hoping eko ile fool is ijebu too.

django1: The guy didn't mention awolowo, but ofcourse your ritual wouldn't be complete without adding awo's name!

Why do you people like comparing orange and apples, STOP comparing late prof. Chinua to Awo!! Instead compare him to soyinka, sefini

why are here? is it not because of Achebe's memoir where he called out awo for the murderer he is. We can't compare Soyinka and Achebe. Igbos love soyinka to death. its about the rogue awo. that's why your people don't want us to pay our last respects to a world hero.

This has got me thinking, do Yorubas hate Achebe out of jealousy? Achebe brought the world to a standstill the way no Yoruba ever will do

ypzilanti: Nigeria was in the news yesterday on a positive (though sad) note. When was the last time Nigeria was celebrated in world news for anything? It is the measure of the greatness of a nation to produce people of world renown. Nigeria, at least can boast of having two of the greatest writers of this century.

Achebe made headlines across all newspapers in the face of the earth. Trended worldwide on twitter all day, among the highest search topics on Google worldwide and the sad thing is the headlines read Nigerian writer. How I wished it would have been Igbo writer or Biafran writer. to hell with the contraption called Nigeria.

0lumide: I can't seem to be able to find one thing Achebe achieved as one of "African intellectual".

He had the tool and potential to make people listen to him but he didn't use that tool and potential for nothing but his own literary awards and nothing really educating per se. Except you want to call his style of writing educating. I call his style of writing political and not something that people across the board can really read when they seek guidance in anything.

All the "African" forum he attended were all just noise making forums who just sit and analyze what Africa should be without them following through their conclusions and ensuring that they capture the mind of corrupt African government for a change.

But still Achebe was a creative writer. But to put it beyond that to try and mortally immortalize him as a hero of Africans is just really sentimental. Achebe has contributed nothing to African development, people and spirit.

If we allow Achebe be called a hero, we are leaving space for people like baba suwe and other entertainers to be called Heros. King Sunny Ade as talented as he is in his work, is just a beauty of Africa not an African hero or active contributor to African development.

Achebe is just one of many Africa talents that stood above his peers in his work. Let's not get too sentimental and try to give undue hero worship to him, instead, recognize the creativity of his work which is what his fame is still based not contribution to African people's development. Thanks

I don't how you people think. we are talking African Heroes and you are mentioning charlatans like baba suwe the drug pusher, sunny ade and awolowo who are not known outside Yoruba land. You may go suicidal if you like but Mandela and Achebe are The Greatest Africans Ever!

I have gathered from the grapevine that GEJ is about to review the state pardon of ex con awolowo. I enjoin all Yoruba people to get ready to hit the streets, protest and resist this attempt

Eko Ile: No time for retar/ded trolls today so fcukkkkk off.

do these people know any ex
convict by name of awolowo or
prospective convict Tinubu? who knows you self?
Your opinion is irrelevant.

bolaino: I'm not saying that chinua achebe was not a great man of literature, he was, but unfortunately he was ONLY a great man of literature, he was'nt a man who believed in progress, he was'nt a man who believed in unity, and he was'nt a forgiving man, wole soyinka is a great man to many Nigerians not only cos he is well learned, but cos he is a man of the people, someone who believes in Nigeria, someone who has always fought for the people of Nigeria, like someone mentioned he was'nt a biafran, but he went to jail because of biafrans, that's someone with integrity and who believes that in the worst situations there is always hope, is wole soyinka dies today he will be remembered for many things not only cos of literature but his numerous ways he has done to propagate peace and oneness in Nigeria, chinua achebe lost hope in Nigeria, and instead of him to keep these negative views to himself he went as far as writing books predicting all sorts of doomsday scenarios for Nigeria and Nigerians, what a shame, smh,

take your primitive thinking and shove it down your ewedu azz. Achebe is Igbo biafran, he does not owe yorubas any fathen. Go and cry to your ex cons awolowo and obasanjo for your elusive progress.

Eko Ile: The people you are quoting are not nigerians and the bitter and hateful old man didn't write any book insulting and dividing south Africans like he did to his own country and fellow nigerians so shove that irrelevant garbage where you got it from..

do these people know any ex convict by name of awolowo or prospective convict Tinubu? Your opinion is irrelevant.

kettykin: Possibly if Jacob Zuma and Mandela could be wrong then Millions of others including Nobel Prize winners will not be wrong, if this man was a Bigot and a local hero like Awolowo why would the whole world be mourning him.

[size=20pt]World mourn Achebe[/size]
http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-governors-mourn-achebe/

Guy please I ask that you exercise caution when you call awo a local hero. He is only a hero to discombulated Yorubas. Nobody knows him outside Yorubaland. He is a local exconvict who died of frustration apparent suicide when it became obvious he couldn't win any elections outside yorubaland.

Very welcome. RIP Achebe!

RIP to her. God save us all from Cancer.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns]please enumerate his contributions to Africa beginning with Nigeria.

Achebe was an ingrate! Twice conferred with national awards and he turned it down each time citing corruption. You should share with us how, sitting in US, he contributed at home to remove the very ill he vehemently opposed. The truth is Achebe remained bitter to his death and he never brought himself around to accept and reconcile the biafran defeat in his own spirit. By accepting a Nigerian honorary award would be an acceptance that his biafran identity is defeated and lost forever. He ended up personifying the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart.[/quote]Achebe clearly gave valid reasons why he rejected the worthless national honours. He is a man of conviction. Achebe is not a politician he did his best in his capacity as a writer. He brought so many positive attention to Nigeria. I don't know what you expect of him. The whole world adore him. Igbos do too. we don't care about irrelevant Yoruba opinion. Get off his d1ck