₦airaland Forum

A001:
Lols, all these shallow Nl arguments. I think without the goals, Messi is just another Ahmed Musa.

Nairaland arguments na comic relief. What made WS win the nobel prize in the first place if not for his works in literature that you said would long have quietly slipped into obscurity?

Those silly obidients just dey waste their time castigating WS on social media.

He has successfully written his name on the sands of time. No amount of social media noise will erase that.

Everyone doesn't have to support your candidate.

When all the social media noises die down, Soyinka will still be the first winner of nobel prize in literature in Africa, a recipient of the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) award, among other prestigious awards.

Shegzdave:
😂😂
This guy and his funny takes

raumdeuter:
Alhaji, you don disown your people sharp sharp?

Theflint1:
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most influential writer in Nigeria's history, practically everyone grew up reading and still read Achebe. His stories were not just interesting, they were incredibly funny and descriptive to the point where you felt like you were right in the story, one of those writers that if you picked their work, just know you'd not drop it until you've read it to the very last word. I probably read A Man of the People like 30 times, the funniest book I ever read and my favourite of all his stories.

Wole Soyinka's style is very technical and I'm sure that's why his appeal was never close to Achebe's despite being a fantastic writer. If he never won the Nobel Prize, I believe nobody go really send e book for Naija like that. I sought his books out mainly cause I knew he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his writings, so naturally assumed they held value...I found them painfully boring though. Abiku was beautiful, read it in SS1 Literature where they compared his version of Abiku to J. P. Clarks'....I preferred Wole Soyinka's Abiku.

Both stars in their own right, but I think without the Nobel Prize, Wole Soyinka's works in literature would have long slipped into obscurity, quietly too. Chinua Achebe didn't need a Nobel Prize or any other award for that matter to forever have his place in our hearts and heads.

Shegzdave:
The fact that we can berate two of our greatest in literary work cause of politics is just too bad cause the two are great in their works, Achebe was a great novelist, Soyinka is a great Playwright and poet

This is just too bad..

OasisX:


Em Wife sef don tán na wọ rọ. We are Batists not Buharists.

A001:
That name "Soyinka" will live for many centuries after his bearer is long gone, so long this world exists, so long Africa exists.

Ifa was just a man like Soyinka in his time until his great works inspired by Orunmila started making people to refer to him as a god (orisa). Today, the name "Ifa" has lived for thousands of years after his bearer's death and will live for many more centuries to come.

Writing one's name on the sands of time is the dream of every human, and only a tiny majority of humans achieve this great feat.

Theflint1:
I'm not disputing the awards the man won which were well deserved, my point is basically is nobody dey really feel the guy for street as per e writing. Wole Soyinka was largely the guy that we were told "Hey, here's a good writer, this is what we think good writing is, and we're giving him an award for that" , and given it was no other but the Nobel Prize body making the proclamation, we went with it, and so it was.

Amoto94:
This is why I don't take some of them privilege kids serious whenever they criticize poor standards of living because when you begin to dig dip you will discover that their immediate family members are active or past participants in making the people have a poor standard of living.

Theflint1:
No lie, if no be say the guy win Nobel Prize, you go hardly get reason to pick e book read

A001:
The question you should first ask is, how many people on the street read quality literature? Very few.

So, only those in the literary field would mostly appreciate a genius like WS, not your everyday people.

It's the same reason why only science-savvy people appreciate geniuses like Einstein, Newton, Curie, and co.

So, your inability to appreciate these people doesn't make their works of less quality or less laudable.

It's more as a result of your own limitations.

raumdeuter:
Alhaji, you don disown your people sharp sharp?

OasisX:


You and reccy should drag yeye lady and her pápá well well.

GrammarNazi1:
Edited.

A group started the comparison and the group's excesses must be checked, please.

Amoto94:
I'm fasting

larride:
These bigots in Canada 😡

Shegzdave:
😂😂
Raumdeter, comman see something based on your reply to Amoto this afternoon

Theflint1:
Na English, how hard can it possibly be to grasp with sufficient concentration?

A001:
The question you should first ask is, how many people on the street read quality literature? Very few.

So, only those in the literary field would mostly appreciate a genius like WS, not your everyday people.

It's the same reason why only science-savvy people appreciate geniuses like Einstein, Newton, Curie, and co.

So, your inability to appreciate these people doesn't make their works of less quality or less laudable.

It's more as a result of your own limitations.

GrammarNazi1:
Wole Soyinka is much more versatile than Chinua Achebe.

You can regard Chinua Achebe as one-dimensional as his work is generally superficial.

Wole Soyinka on the other hand is so versatile that he has books of different levels of complexity.

If you want a very difficult book, Wole Soyinka has it.

If you want a difficult book, Wole Soyinka has it.

If you want a very simple book, Wole Soyinka has it.

If you want a simple book, Wole Soyinka has it.

Have you heard of The Lion and the Jewel? This play can be regarded as simple, while A Dance of the Forests may be regarded as hard.

Again, if you want a difficult book, Wole Soyinka has it.

If you want a simple book, Wole Soyinka has it because Wole Soyinka is not one-dimensional, while Chinua Achebe is one-dimensional.

larride:
These bigots in Canada 😡

obainojazz:
I was going to learn French so I could follow the Quebec PR pathway…. All I needed was a C or B

Wetin man no do for japa

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The fact that we can berate any of our two Greats, just to win an argument is worrisome.

So we are now arguing Achebe vs Soyinka?

Omoh![/color]

raumdeuter:
A ti ko ife nile, Ifa tin se

See A001 wey hate Tinubu and didn't vote him, but when insults begin reach those he respected, he turned against the Obidients,

This next 4 yrs will be interesting, BATist dont even have to do anything, Obidients will sort themselves out.

They lost almost half of the Yoruba's wey vote Obi in the GRV "I don't think in Yoruba" saga. In all these Obidient thing, which prominent Yoruba never collect is it Awolowo MKO, Fela now Soyinka.

obainojazz:
I was going to learn French so I could follow the Quebec PR pathway…. All I needed was a C or B

Wetin man no do for japa