₦airaland Forum

notoriousbabe:
at age 79? Abeg forget that prayer Jo, just start thinking of where dem go bury you

Guestlander:
The difference between Soyinka and Achebe is the difference between a Volkswagen beetle and a Ferrari Testarossa. I meant no insults to you.

Guestlander:
How old are you?

Guestlander:
How would you know Wole Soyinka's books if you don't read in the first place. The Nobel committee is not made up of people who doesn't read.

DoTheNeedful:
If you say you have not heard about any work of Wole then you are being mischievous. Besides, you need to get familiar with the calibre of people who have won Nobel prize for literature before then you will understand why Achebe couldn't win it.
Can you without using Google give the name of a book written by any other Nobel prize winner?

Growing up, my initial knowledge of Wole was that of a playwright. Later, I started reading prose written him and much later poems. Soyinka has great works in those three areas of literature. I can't remember any play written by Achebe. He was just a very narrow man whose only major expressions are in prose. Soyinka cut across all the areas of literature. He is a great playwright, writer and poet.

Some of you just think "Things Fall Apart " should get Achebe Nobel prize and I laugh.

Winning a Nobel prize is not a popularity contest of the novels you write. If it is so, hundreds or even thousand of people would have won it. There are many great writers like William Faulkner, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway who wrote some of the most popular literary works of all time, yet ,they were not awarded the prize. Winning the prize is deeper and in fact the works of many of the winners are usually not easily digestible by a "regular Joe" the way "Things Fall Apart" is. They are usually works digestible by very smart minds. A common attribute of winners is deeply rooted in poetry which some like you can't even digest. Try and check the list of all winners of Nobel Prize for Literature and their attributes, then you will have a clue as to why Achebe could never have won it.

Thank God the award is not a Nigerian award, people like you would have said that the Yoruba and Fulani conspired against you because they hate Igbos.

If you wake up Achebe again he will still not smell that award.

Patrioticooduan:
Flat.head, show me Ngozi Iweala NYSC certificate

Patrioticooduan:
These flat.heads with their mumu brain. She did not school in Nigeria.
Flat.headed pathetic landlocked Biafrans

sean1000x:
Haha...you can't trust these afonjas and their oluwale. Maybe she entered with 7 f9s like Adeleke. Adeleke removed all F9s and replaced them with pending. Where have you seen results pending since 1981, they release only one course English and held back the rest? Continue Afonjas!

Offixialsecret:
piont of correction there drainage in Delta so say what u kno

RevenGeMission:
You should give a mess, it depends on how long the account was registered

By the way even most of your brothers in Yoruba land agree Buhari will win this coming election


If you elect another hausa man , e.g Atiku , atiku will use 8 years completely , making 12 years for Hausa presidency

And you and your brothers are the one who keep saying Hausa people have born to rule mentality

If there's still a nigeria after that then ibos will spend 4 years in presidency because it's you who allowed hausa man to spend 12 years ... and so
it comes back to Yoruba and trust me , Who ever is fielded will spend his 8 years that's how things work , you may not see it now , but eventually you will

wristbangle:
My comment wasn't laced with tribal words. Tread carefully boy. If you check my comments on Amosun regime, you will see I condemn his lacklustre performance.

If you like, keep hyping an underperforming governor. We like celebrating mediocrity in this country as you just expressed it now.

johnmartus:
I will delete my account here if buhari defeated in 2019.

Tolexander:
what is this one saying?

I said house with no drainage, he is talking about road with no drainage!

LuciferChristi:
So they are wasting yams when someone around Sango Bridge in Ogun State desperately needs it.

The heart of man is wicked!

Tolexander:
A big problem in the South East.

They will build fine and correct house, but to do drainage na problem