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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by danibest001: 9:21am On Nov 16, 2021
Our youths don't know people like this!!!!

All they know is now entertaining Celebrities!!!
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by eDoctorr(m): 9:22am On Nov 16, 2021
Ronaldo vrs Messi
Chinua Achebe vrs Woke Soyinka

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by descarado: 9:24am On Nov 16, 2021
Celebrate new heros. All these posthumous birthday get as e be. Or Nigeria don't have new heros that's why they keep on celebrating dead people?

I wonder if this is how every family celebrates the birthday of their deceased ones. It's said that for the living to move on, they should let the dead rest. All works of achebe and co should be sought out by people who are in their fields for academic and research purposes.

Wonder how many posthumous birthday usa and UK will be doing everyday.

When buhari dies now, we will have buhari posthumous birthday too.
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Nmezor(f): 9:28am On Nov 16, 2021
There was indeed a country...Rest on Sir
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Blake755: 9:28am On Nov 16, 2021
Wow if he had studied medicine he won't have had this kind of impact in the society is good to follow your dreams keep resting legend
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by treatise: 9:33am On Nov 16, 2021
Maxymilliano:
grin grin

Keeping an average Nigerian from being corrupt is like keeping a goat from eating yam ...Chinua Achebe - The Trouble with Nigeria(1983)

Happy Posthumous Birthday to the great iroko Tree of our time

Kwaraption in our DNA? grin

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by 8stargeneral: 9:34am On Nov 16, 2021
A man who saw tomorrow..happy birthday great legend.
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by bigpicture001: 9:34am On Nov 16, 2021
Rahkman:
i ve read all grin

His book man of the people began his troubles in life..... FG declared him a target for death because of that book

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by 8stargeneral: 9:35am On Nov 16, 2021
IbileIfe:
His novels were prophetic.
Exactly..a man who saw tomorrow.

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by FKMagazine(m): 9:37am On Nov 16, 2021
lalasticlala:


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe


May his soul continue to rest in peace
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by CSTRR: 9:38am On Nov 16, 2021
Blake755:
Wow if he had studied medicine he won't have had this kind of impact in the society is good to follow your dreams keep resting legend
Chimamanda adichie too.

She was already in medical school, on course to be a doctor.

Left it behind at UNN and pursued literature abroad.

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by 8stargeneral: 9:38am On Nov 16, 2021
descarado:
Celebrate new heros. All these posthumous birthday get as e be. Or Nigeria don't have new heros that's why they keep on celebrating dead people?

I wonder if this is how every family celebrates the birthday of their deceased ones. It's said that for the living to move on, they should let the dead rest. All works of achebe and co should be sought out by people who are in their fields for academic and research purposes.

Wonder how many posthumous birthday usa and UK will be doing everyday.

When buhari dies now, we will have buhari posthumous birthday too.

its part of remembering he's good legacy...u can't celebrate a thief.

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by isaiah4life(m): 9:40am On Nov 16, 2021
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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by isaiah4life(m): 9:41am On Nov 16, 2021
The great iroko tree fell years ago, but its leaves remains ever fresh.

Father of literature, I bow!

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by uduokirika1(m): 9:42am On Nov 16, 2021
Wick3:
Same birthday with Nnamdi Azikiwe...

Legends!

November get people abeg

Ojukwu too November 3rd

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by od501: 9:42am On Nov 16, 2021
Mood11:
Legendary Chinua Achebe cheesy

For indomie generation, these are some of his books you should take out time from the internet and read;
Things fall Apart
No longer at Ease
A man of his People
Arow of god
Anthills o the Savanna.

you forgot "There Was A Country"

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by blozzynonny(f): 9:44am On Nov 16, 2021
When I read "There was a Country " I shed tears that I never knew a book can ever make me shed. It was a detailed narrative of the evils of the Civil war.

So heartbreaking �

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Manigie: 9:45am On Nov 16, 2021
Mood11:
Legendary Chinua Achebe cheesy

For indomie generation, these are some of his books you should take out time from the internet and read;
Things fall Apart
No longer at Ease
A man of his People
Arow of god
Anthills o the Savanna.
Great books you mentioned but permit me to reemphasize my favorite sir, ' Anthills Of The Savannah"

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by descarado: 9:51am On Nov 16, 2021
8stargeneral:
its part of remembering he's good legacy...u can't celebrate a thief.

What do we do with that?
Are they the only heros?

We don't have new heros or we don't care to discover them?
Some doctors have done some amazing medical breakthroughs in Nigeria, have we ever celebrated them?

Every day we are celebrating dead people cos of their affiliation with politics when they were alive while the real heros still living amongst us are forgotten.
The West and the rest of the world celebrate living heros everyday that do amazing things. Not people that died years ago.

Like I said, people like that are used in academic research teaching etc in their various fields not posthumous whatever. It's boring.
Next year we will start all over. Achebe posthumous birthday, awolowo posthumous birthday, The first Nigerian female Dr( have forgotten her name) why don't we celebrate her too or she wasn't a hero?

That lady pilot that was gunned down last two yrs while on duty, wasn't she a hero?
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Ungodly: 9:58am On Nov 16, 2021
Mood11:
Legendary Chinua Achebe cheesy

For indomie generation, these are some of his books you should take out time from the internet and read;
Things fall Apart
No longer at Ease
A man of his People
Arow of god
Anthills o the Savanna.
president of the the rock of ages generation… thanks for writing down the books again because the original post was written in Swahili

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Ungodly: 9:59am On Nov 16, 2021
blozzynonny:
When I read "There was a Country " I shed tears that I never knew a book can ever make me shed. It was a detailed narrative of the evils of the Civil war.

So heartbreaking �
you get river for eye na
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by uniquelyspecial(m): 10:06am On Nov 16, 2021
temitope27:
The only ibo man I respect
Clear your heart of hate and tribalism, you'll see yourself respect several Igbo men.

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Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by lereinter(m): 10:12am On Nov 16, 2021
A legend
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Sergio101(m): 10:15am On Nov 16, 2021
RIP legend
Re: Chinua Achebe's 91st Posthumous Birthday Is Today by SoundWaves: 10:15am On Nov 16, 2021
eDoctorr:
Ronaldo vrs Messi
Chinua Achebe vrs Woke Soyinka
all African countries compare chinua Achebe to their best writers, so it's nothing new for some to compare him to soyinka
Achebe__father of African literature
Messi___ real goat
Ororo____ media goat

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