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ziddy:
It's not about Yoruba. D.O Fagunwa is the greatest writer Nigeria has ever seen & you can always read the translation. Who the hell is Pita Nwana?

I asked the same question "Who the hell is D.O Fagunwa", believe me most people if not all don't know him, for someone you claim to be the greatest Nigerian writer....... His name should ring a bell at least, his name should be associated with his ground breaking work, I have a Friend his name is Oluwale Matthew, we call him Wale Soyinka, because Wale Soyinka is popular and is associated with success, during my university days I had this guy in our football team his surname is Achebe, that's what everyone calls him, till today non of us know his first name, it was Easier to call him that, in fact whenever I call him Achebe ''Things fall apart'' comes to mind. Hope you understand my point?

organicfoods:
But what makes writers great? Awards acquired for their works is what makes them great and not insinuations and thought. I love Things fall apart and believe is one of the greatest novel to come out of Africa. For certain reason the author never made it at the Nobel prize.

Probably he never met the criteria to be awarded a Nobel prize which left a great dent on his resume.

The OP has no background history worth of note to rate any Author to warrant a front page. Like religion MOD should be sensitive to pushing gossips to front burner least they misinform future generations that will rely on the Internet for research. Cyprian Ekwensi and JP Clark are among the top five writers in Africa...where are their names in Nigeria's so called 10

Like I said JP Clark should be on the list, I can't really say how he or she came up with that list, maybe he must have gone through their works and maybe influenced by what he got, I've read more of Cyprian Ekwensi's work, so if I'm asked to make my list Cyprian Ekwensi will come first while Achebe comes second, OP should have said His list of Greatest Nigerian writer........

ziddy:
You dont have any business talking about literature if you can't even spell 'Nobel Prize'

OP is an Igbo supremacist sh!tbird

1. D.O Fagunwa
2. Wole Soyinka
3. Chinua Achebe
4. Elechi Amadi
5. Flora Nwapa
6. Buchi Emecheta
7. Chimamanda Adichie
8. Helen Oyeyemi
9. Chika Unigwe
10. Remi Raji

You can as well make your own list on a new thread, but you guys eh!!! anything to put Yoruba ahead of others is acceptable, @D.O Fagunwa was just a yoruba writer, Imagine if the OP had placed "Pita Nwana" as number1 because he wrote the first Igbo literature, you lots would have claimed his works are not known........... SMH for you!

Quota System has truly damaged the mind of an average Nigerian, Everything must and should be shared equally. Someone was even listing out Names of some Hausa writers who probably wrote there books with Hausa and where only read in the Hausa community, I'll fault the OP in some of the names on his List of Nigerian Greatest writers, but then 70% of the names deserve their position, At JP Clark should be on the list............ While some people out of tribal bigotry said Prof. Wole Soyinka should be ahead Prof Chinua Achebe because he has the Noble prize award, I mean that's their only excuse "Noble prize". From the topic the OP was referring to the "10 Greatest Literary Writers In Nigeria History", the emphasis is on "Greatest Literary Writers" and not the biggest award, if it were to be the biggest award, I will give it to Wole Soyinka any day but here is for the "Greatest Literary Writers" and the OP rightly place the Father of modern African writing as the number one. Common guys this tribal sh*t is becoming too much to bear.......