tishbite42:

I understand your tears
Facts can puncture fantasies
All I said is in public domain
Keep on crying
Achebe is in a class of his own
Personally, the only person that comes close is Cyprian Ekwensi. The People of the City and An African Night Entertainment were mad classics. Chukwuemeka Ike is a honorable mention too.

Iykenuwa:
I watched the beginning of the Soyinka interview.

It was at the point where he started emphasising that he hadn't met with Tinubu in 5 years, even though nobody mentioned Tinubu to him up till that point.


That's when I knew he wanted to cap nonsense. And he didn't disappoint me.

As for Charly Boy's statement.


All you need to do is read his work and Achebe's.


Achebe is far ahead in all aspects, intellectually and otherwise.

Gajagojo:

Evidence?

The fact is Achebe was not good enough and that is bringing tears and lies
Nobel prize not good enough

Creeper:


It’s ‘Man Booker Prize’ not “Bookerman Prize”.

And Achebe and Ben Okri are the two Nigerians who have won the award.

Chimamanda has NEVER won any prestigious award in literature.

BTW, the ultimate prize in literature is the Nobel Prize Laureate and only Prof. Wole Soyinka has won it.

LegendHero:
Achebe died an envious unfulfilled man and legend has it that envy for Wole Soyinka contributed to his death.

Why I love God is that he always make Yoruba triumph, we have bested the Ibos in all strata of achievement if we go head to head.

Below is Prof. Wole Soyinka telling the world how embarrassed he was on the kind of envy and hatred Achebe showed when he won the Nobel Laureate.

Soyinka is more of just a writer, he is an icon. A million Achebe can not measure up to him.

tishbite42:

Keep crying
I can write a million things about Achebe
For Wole Soyinka, it is just the Nobel
Ok, let's be real
Can you compare any of WS works to the following?!
Things Fall Apart
Arrow of God
No Longer At Ease
I'm waiting buddy

LegendHero:
Achebe died an envious unfulfilled man and legend has it that envy for Wole Soyinka contributed to his death.

Why I love God is that he always make Yoruba triumph, we have bested the Ibos in all strata of achievement if we go head to head.

Below is Prof. Wole Soyinka telling the world how embarrassed he was on the kind of envy and hatred Achebe showed when he won the Nobel Laureate.

Soyinka is more of just a writer, he is an icon. A million Achebe can not measure up to him.

tishbite42:

Things Fall Apart is what Soyinka would never achieve even if he lives for the next hundred years
Achebe is in a galaxy of his own
He's top 100, dead or alive, in literature worldwide

Legitisreal:
what am I having property in those two backward places for

Those areas would be prone to wars either succession or invasion or terrorists

tishbite42:

Keep crying
I can write a million things about Achebe
For Wole Soyinka, it is just the Nobel
Ok, let's be real
Can you compare any of WS works to the following?!
Things Fall Apart
Arrow of God
No Longer At Ease
I'm waiting buddy

greenandy:


As you see northern and eastern regions of Nigeria as prone to terrorists secession and invasion backward areas, because you see Lagos and see forward moving area, you must be ridiculous.

Creeper:


Achebe didn’t win the proper Man Booker Prize for literature - hence you didn’t see him on the list of winners. He won the international version, which is more of a legacy recognition award.

This is the list of the proper Man Booker Prize winners: https://cals.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/man-booker-prize-winners.pdf (Ben Okri and Gordimer made this list)

But this is the version Achebe won: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/chinua-achebe

Anyway, I don’t know why people like comparing Soyinka and Achebe. It reeks of insecurity and jealousy.

Prof. Wole Soyinka is greater than Achebe in the literary world and he’s much more versatile. And apart from the Nobel Prize Laureate - he has won prestigious awards in Theatre. Prof. Soyinka is also a revolutionary and an activist on the same level as some of the greats.

Achebe was just a writer - a great story teller. That’s where the comparison ends.

Gajagojo:

What do you know? education is boring. It is not always entertainment.
It is for people with brain power.
Poetry is for spiritually evolved persons
Carnal minds won't get it

lexy2014:


If Soyinka criticised Datti Ahmed, how does that now concern chinua Achebe? Did Soyinka mention chinua Achebe when criticising Datti Ahmed?

BenzEne1:


He's right
You are just bitter and therefore jaundiced to see the Truth.
The highest honour in literature is the Nobel prize.
It's like comparing Jay Jay Okocha to Ronaldinho.
Fantastic footballers both but one is more rounded and versatile.
Soyinka is much more versatile and a better writer. There's the truth and there's our opinions. Facts don't care about our opinions

Hedonini:
Of course. I lost respect for the old fool the moment I discerned that he was just another rodent in Tinubu's cookie room. The idiot whose voice of condemnation was very loud against the Jonathan administration somehow retreated into his shell and became deaf and dumb throughout Buhari's disastrous 8 years of sorrow.

Now after a sham election has supposedly produced a bloody thief and drug baron as president, the useless Soyinka has found his voice again, not in condemnation of the election or of the disreputable criminal that was dubiously pronounced winner, but against the people yearning for a change. Obedients are repugnant fascists and he is ready to do a debate with Datti, but he conveniently has nothing to say about INEC, Tinubu, and the APC. This is the final straw.

LegendHero:


Source: https://twitter.com/areafada1/status/1644585830722183169?s=46&t=oGAxjhiGeufNKlYA6fDTyA

prof22:
Old fool you are obviously lying that he became deaf in Buhari's 8 years. Google it online of his condemnation of Buhari's government. Well the sorrow part must be personal to you. You are just a bittered man and if care is not taken you will do overheating and burn your gasket. Inauguration is coming.

Hawkler:

Having read both books, A weak brain will never understand Soyinka poetry it is a brain teaser.

Legitisreal:
no be lie

As a kid we read things fall apart for waec because Nigeria government really helped Achebe career by making it mandatory

But you can't read soyinka books even for some adult it still got too draining intellectually then

Hedonini:
Of course. I lost respect for the old fool the moment I discerned that he was just another rodent in Tinubu's cookie room. The idiot whose voice of condemnation was very loud against the Jonathan administration somehow retreated into his shell and became deaf and dumb throughout Buhari's disastrous 8 years of sorrow.u

Now after a sham election has supposedly produced a bloody thief and drug baron as president, the useless Soyinka has found his voice again, not in condemnation of the election or of the disreputable criminal that was dubiously pronounced winner, but against the people yearning for a change. Obedients are repugnant fascists and he is ready to do a debate with Datti, but he conveniently has nothing to say about INEC, Tinubu, and the APC. This is the final straw.

LegendHero:


Source: https://twitter.com/areafada1/status/1644585830722183169?s=46&t=oGAxjhiGeufNKlYA6fDTyA

LegendHero:
Achebe died an envious unfulfilled man and legend has it that envy for Wole Soyinka contributed to his death.

Why I love God is that he always make Yoruba triumph, we have bested the Ibos in all strata of achievement if we go head to head.

Below is Prof. Wole Soyinka telling the world how embarrassed he was on the kind of envy and hatred Achebe showed when he won the Nobel Laureate.

Soyinka is more of just a writer, he is an icon. A million Achebe can not measure up to him.

Hedonini:
Of course. I lost respect for the old fool the moment I discerned that he was just another rodent in Tinubu's cookie room. The idiot whose voice of condemnation was very loud against the Jonathan administration somehow retreated into his shell and became deaf and dumb throughout Buhari's disastrous 8 years of sorrow.

Now after a sham election has supposedly produced a bloody thief and drug baron as president, the useless Soyinka has found his voice again, not in condemnation of the election or of the disreputable criminal that was dubiously pronounced winner, but against the people yearning for a change. Obedients are repugnant fascists and he is ready to do a debate with Datti, but he conveniently has nothing to say about INEC, Tinubu, and the APC. This is the final straw.

Hedonini:
Of course. I lost respect for the old fool the moment I discerned that he was just another rodent in Tinubu's cookie room. The idiot whose voice of condemnation was very loud against the Jonathan administration somehow retreated into his shell and became deaf and dumb throughout Buhari's disastrous 8 years of sorrow.

Now after a sham election has supposedly produced a bloody thief and drug baron as president, the useless Soyinka has found his voice again, not in condemnation of the election or of the disreputable criminal that was dubiously pronounced winner, but against the people yearning for a change. Obedients are repugnant fascists and he is ready to do a debate with Datti, but he conveniently has nothing to say about INEC, Tinubu, and the APC. This is the final straw.

Iykenuwa:
I watched the beginning of the Soyinka interview.

It was at the point where he started emphasising that he hadn't met with Tinubu in 5 years, even though nobody mentioned Tinubu to him up till that point.


That's when I knew he wanted to cap nonsense. And he didn't disappoint me.

As for Charly Boy's statement.


All you need to do is read his work and Achebe's.


Achebe is far ahead in all aspects, intellectually and otherwise.