₦airaland Forum

Dede1: You are one among many reasons Nigeria is a dead-end piece of junk. Achebe was and remained one of few major contributors to Africa’s progress. You are too ignorant to even begin to comprehend Achebe’s contribution to the progress of entire African continent. In USA, authors of text books that hold rare knowledge are valued more than an idiotic politician who claimed to have granted free education, built TV Station, roads, bridges or stadia by using public fund. An author used his\her natural endowment, time and money to publish books so that drooling airheads such you had the opportunity to spew crap.

If moronic dingbats such as you had followed a bit of Achebe’s preaching and forget the never-do-well structure on a sandy foundation such as Nigeria, the region would have experienced explosion of progress and mutual corporations among nation states rather than ethnical and sectarian massacres prevalent in Nigeria today.

I shall never want to have you as a compatriot.

What more is there to be said. Nairaland is like a field where retartded individuals have the opportunity to display foolishness and relate with smart and intelligent folks. The Op will have such fraudsters as awolowo, Fashola and Tinubu as a hero and contributor to the development of Nigeria as against people like Achebe and Soyinka

Trouble in paradise in your own backyard?

WATER-TIGHT security is now being mounted in all the six states of the South-West zone of the country amidst tension following Thursday’s arrest in Lagos of a Chadian and another suspect, believed to be members of the dreaded Islamic set, Boko Haram. The suspects were arrested with bombs, arms and ammunition following a tip-off in a joint operation of the military and the State Security Service (SSS).

An impeccable Source told the Saturday Tribune in Abuja on Friday that the security measure became necessary following intelligence reports that the sect planned to launch attacks on some major towns in the zone.

The SSS had, last month, arrested a middle-aged man who was charged with the responsibility of recruiting and training would-be members of the Boko Haram sect in the South-West, with emphasis on Lagos and its environs.

The suspect, who was said to have connections with Iranian terrorist groups and was also to establish cells for the group in the zone, had succeeded in recruiting some followers before he was apprehended, along with four others, who were later paraded before newsmen.

Thursday’s operations at the Ijora Badiya, Lagos Mainland in Lagos, accordingly to the source, was part of efforts being made by the SSS in conjunction with other security agencies to checkmate the activities of the sect from spreading to the South-West because of its political, social and economic implications on the country in general.

“We are on top of the situation; there is no cause for any fear. We have been on the trail of the sect since last year. We learnt that they wanted to establish cells in Lagos for coordinated attacks on public places and some very important individuals in the society. We monitored them and we got one suspect arrested and he later confessed. Since then, we have been on our toes,” a very senior security operative told Saturday Tribune on Friday.

The source further hinted that all manners of security measures, which he declined to mention, were being put in place by all the security agencies in order to make the South-West zone a no-go area for members of the sect and their foreign collaborators.

Meanwhile, the suspected Chadian and one member of the sect nabbed in the Ijora Badiya, Lagos raid are currently undergoing intensive interrogation.

As at press time, neither the SSS nor the police was willing to make any official statement yet on the development because of the sensitivity of the matter.

In the Thursday raid in Lagos, the SSS and military operatives recovered bomb, AK-47 rifles, arms and ammunition in the Chadian’s apartment, which he reportedly hired a month ago.

Security sources told Saturday Tribune on Friday that searchlights were being beamed on key communities particularly Sabo settlements in towns in the zone to “avoid infiltration by undesirable elements.”

A reliable State Security Service (SSS) source in one of the South West states told the Saturday Tribune that the service had always put enough measures in place to counter any plot against public peace and security.

“What happened in Lagos on Thursday was an eye opener to all of us, including members of the public, to be alert. Landlords and estate agents should scrutinise, carefully, persons who want to rent apartments from them.

“What needs to be done now is more sensitization among the people so that they will be more security conscious. We are closely in touch with religious leaders and community heads for close monitoring of their environments for early detection of criminals,” he said.

The security source hinted that Security Council meetings in the South West states would dwell more on the new threats, in days to come.

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 2 Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Ahmed Jubrin could not be reached yesterday as he was said to be on tour of military formations in parts of Kwara State.

A military source who declined comments, however, hinted that the armed forces were actively collaborating with other security forces to prevent the spread of terrorism to the South West which had so far enjoyed some measure of peace.

Oyo State police commissioner, Mr. Mohammed Indabawa told the Saturday Tribune that he would not disclose the measures being put in place to counter any ugly move by terrorists.

He, however, counselled that people should be vigilant and report any suspicious movement in their neighbourhood to law

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/7962-boko-haram-tension-grips-s-west

gratiaeo: Achebe was an Iroko of Integrity: Atiku
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/achebe-was-an-iroko-of-integrity-atiku/

They call this okwu agwu` in Igbo meaning the final verdict.

funkymama: Nigeria ke

Bro, that's taking it too far oh.

What you should be asking about are his contributions to his erosion stricken Ibo land before he died

What legacy did he leave behind for his people?

All he did was stay at Yankee and CRITICISE

We know all Awolowo did for yoruba land. There's no need to go into full details

what did awo do for Yoruba land? tribalism, fake education, fraud etc.

namfav: why do you want to turn it into a northerners vs yoruba issue, we're talking about achebe, if you want to talk about sanusis opinion we can do that in another thread, as i have said achebe is a hero for you, even the most wicked men in nigeria's history are heroes to a selected few, i have no respect for him, he has not contributed anything for nigeria

And in your drunk mind in the wretched compartment you are squatting, you think anybody gives a single fvck about your opinion. Can you tell me the person that has 'contributed anything for Nigeria?' I would have waited for your response but you are a fool.

gratiaeo: Good morning

No. Good morning is solely for Niger Deltans. lol.

Pataki: Same as it is the opinion of the majority to remember Achebe as a bigot in tribalism.

The system of the world is fashioned in the sense of remembering your bad deeds far better than your good deeds. That is why we all remember RVP for cheating on his wife. We remember Bill Clinton for his sexual affair while in the White House. We remember Achebe as a tribal bigot.

The only thing we remember is Achebe's memoir was the truth! and awo died of apparent suicide from rat poison

bittyend: Fair enough, it's un-African to talk bad about the dead. But to call that book the best book written by an African shows the lack of reading culture among Africans and the inability of African youths to differentiate between what a masterpiece is and what a jejune tale is.

Way to go the future of Africa. Maybe Africa has no future afterall with the quality of people it continues to produce in this day and age.

I bet 50 shades of grey is also a masterpiece to most African youths loool.

stfu. always claiming you know shiiit. where you know nothing? I saw how you were schooled in that Kim kardashian thread. Only Soyinka is in Achebe's class in Literature in Africa. Be deceiving yourself with that your peckam backyard.,

Wow some Yorubas are really surprising me here today I swear. Desola? Coogar? My God. Am really sober.

God punish you fool. You claim to be igbo but you are still feasting on GEJ's balls on the day Achebe died. smfh

Chinua Achebe is an international Phenom. A legend, Warrior, Brave with a conscience nurtured by truth. Bow down witches!
RIP Sir.

This is one death too many. I am deeply touched. Am really sober today. May God bless his soul. Thank God for giving him the discretion to know his time was near and bequeathing [size=16pt]The Truth[/size] to unborn generations. Know we will not act by hear say. God bless Achebe. Rest in perfect peace sir.

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who was one of Africa’s most widely read novelists and one of the continent’s towering men of letters, died on Thursday in Boston. He was 82.
His death was announced by Brown University, where he had been on the faculty since 2009.

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 has sold more than 10 million copies and been 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!’ ” Mr. Achebe wrote 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 published 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 book review in The New York Times, the South African novelist Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel laureate, 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 the African citizens who tolerated their corruption and violence.

Forced abroad by Nigeria’s civil war in the 1960s and then by military dictatorship in the 1980s and ‘90s, Mr. Achebe had lived for many years in the United States, where he was a university professor, most recently at Brown. He had previously taught for 19 years at Bard College in the Hudson River valley.

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.”

Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born on Nov. 16, 1930, in Ogidi, an Ibo village, during the heyday of British colonial rule. His father became a Christian and worked for a missionary teacher in various parts of Nigeria before returning to Ogidi. Chinua, then only 5, recalled the homecoming as a passage backward through time.
Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

RIP Achebe. Haters can suck his d#ck. He He has left behind a generational legacy that will forever hound all enemies of the igbo nation both dead and alive - There was a country

[quote author=Yoruba_Omoge]He internationalized TRIBALISM[/quote]This thread is about a legend Achebe and not ex convict awolowo. Send your post to the appropraiate thread

The man who told the truth before he died, holding nothing against his conscience.
[size=16pt]Rest in Paradise Sir[/size]