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Proud to have Chinua Achebe there

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Chinua Achebe opened black Africans' eyes to the fact that we can actually tell our own story

netpro:
Will add to my reading list

SoNature:
Chinua Achebe opened black Africans' eyes to the fact that we can actually tell our own story

Wittyness

Okolo3662:
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee. Hardcover book first published July 11, 1960. Novel won 1961 Pulitzer Prize. Later made into an Academy Award winning film.
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez, 1982.
5. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster.
6. Things Fall Apart by Chinualumogu Achebe.
7. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
10. Mrs Dalloway by Vagina Wolf.
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
12. The purple color by Alice Walker.

Great collections. I have read almost all of them.

Maya Angelou's "Why The Caged Bird Sings" should be there too. I place it side by side with Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mocking Bird ".

I love The Great Gatsby and had to read it again like it's a textbook. Very technical book of the roving 1920s when alcohol was a contraband. The Old money vs New money thing in the book still exists till date

Half of a yellow sun by Wole Soyinka should be included

Anambra born Chinua Achebe . Good job

If any book written by wole soyinka had appeared here, will your response still be same?

EmperorCaesar:
Something shakespeare couldnt do for England

If u believe an Achebe books will ever be rated above that of Williams, omo, u must believe dragons once existed

For me, it's gotta be Native Son by Richard Wright

James hardly chase no smell the list.

The family.. Puzo.

Lol......Achebe on that list is just funny.
A nigerian must have compiled that list.

Shakespeare, dostoevsky, hemminway, twain, Virginia Wolfe, Jane austen, George orwell and so many not on that list.

No shades on Achebe but come on man. For fuxk sake be serious

EmperorCaesar:
Something shakespeare couldnt do for England

If u believe an Achebe books will ever be rated above that of Williams, omo, u must believe dragons once existed

Those books are rated based on copies sold. Go on Wikipedia and see the bestsellers and their sales records. Things Fall Apart is one of the best-selling books in this world.

Remove Chinua Achebe and Put Mario Puzo.

Black boy by Richard wright

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Another bullshit
soyinka nobel prize really pain igbos no be small

MeaslesMumpsRub:
Remove Chinua Achebe and Put Mario Puzo.

Dont be jealous,wole Soyinka name will be listed in the list of greatest Cultists in the world

udede:
leave tribalism aside, you have not read things fall apart by Achebe

They have started!... Everything will be coloured tribal.

Airlord2030:
Another bullshit

soyinka nobel prize really pain igbos no be small

you be cultist,na cultist you go support before na
He is your father in cultusm

Is this list your own considerations OP?

Okolo3662:
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee. Hardcover book first published July 11, 1960. Novel won 1961 Pulitzer Prize. Later made into an Academy Award winning film.
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez, 1982.
5. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster.
6. Things Fall Apart by Chinualumogu Achebe.
7. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
10. Mrs Dalloway by Vagina Wolf.
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
12. The purple color by Alice Walker.

Your American and western people told you these are the greatest books every written and also made sure that the selection were nearly all their kinsmen and you too you are pushing it out there and sharing it on a Nigerian website. You should be ashamed of yourself!!

EmperorCaesar:
Something shakespeare couldnt do for England

If u believe an Achebe books will ever be rated above that of Williams, omo, u must believe dragons once existed

is Williams Shakespeare a novelist? Lol! Something is wrong with some of you. Walahi

LordIsaac:
I’ll stay with Sidney Sheldon and the Bronte’s anytime.😊

Not Dan Brown or Clive Cussler or Katherine Neville or Mario Puzo?

Salewa97:
No source.

you suppose know this inferior tribe by now na.
nobel prize really pain them pass biafra war no be small

The author of number 10 though

No Mario Puzo.


Nah.

[quote author=Ishilove post=126650527]
Virginia Woolf.

Stop being mischievous[/quote]Vagina Wolf

Goan write your own!

Zeus123:
Lol......Achebe on that list is just funny.
A nigerian must have compiled that list.

Shakespeare, dostoevsky, hemminway, twain, Virginia Wolfe, Jane austen, George orwell and so many not on that list.

No shades on Achebe but come on man. For fuxk sake be serious

Imagine Animal farm of all novel is not there! ...I guess the list na hin own consideration.

jamesversion:
What books did Wole Soyinka even write that even one of them cannot feature in world greatest books?

Do not start an argument that will make Achebe cry in his grave again this night.

And if the argument starts now, one will discover how empty you are apart from igniting the ethnic fire.

Authoreety:
Achebe really did a lot in putting Nigeria 🇳🇬 in the limelight

Yeah, we are proud of him. A true Nigerian he was