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Tellmeastory:
The FG must name something big in this country after the legendary Professor Chinua Achebe.

I am a great fan and reader of Wole Soyinka, by the way, so this is not based on any beef with the great Nobel-winning writer, who certainly earned the right to have the National Theatre named after him by President Tinubu.

But we must not put Chinua Achebe, the Booker Prize winning author of Africa’s greatest novel, Things Fall Apart, in the position of the proverbial lizard of his great book who fell from the tall iroko tree, and promised to praise himself if no one else did.

That book is Required Reading in the curricula of schools all over the world, from Kenya to the USA.

It has been translated into over 100 languages worldwide, and remains till date, the biggest selling novel by an African, bringing great honour to Nigeria.

Achebe was also an erudite advocate for good governance and govt accountability.

According to wiki

“Chinua Achebe…. was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated, and read African novel.

Along with Things Fall Apart, his No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964) complete the "African Trilogy".

Later novels include A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987).

In the West, Achebe is often referred to as the "father of African literature", although he vigorously rejected the characterization.“

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

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Gentlemen, we must honour this man.

He can name a river or forest in the East after him.

Tellmeastory:
Did Achebe and Soyinka not study the English language like you?

If it’s okay for you to communicate in English, why isn’t it okay for them?

Their's went beyond just studying English in school like you and I.

White people noticed their talent on time and used it against them in such a way that instead of mastering African languages for their writing, they instead chose to master a foreign language.

From young Soyinka's days at Leeds University, he was already surrounded by Western secret services and being groomed for the destruction of African languages. But he didn't know! They went all in and from 1962 were used to declare war against African languages. That's why I, you, we write in English today.

I know you don't know this because it has been a best kept secret but if you're interested in further information, read the books below.

1. African literature and the CIA
2. The liberal conspiracy
3. White malice: The CIA and covert recolonization of Africa

musicwriter:
Their's went beyond just studying English in school like you and I.

White people noticed their talent on time and used it against them in such a way that instead of mastering African languages for their writing, they instead chose to master a foreign language.

From young Soyinka's days at Leeds University, he was already surrounded by Western secret services and being groomed for the destruction of African languages. But he didn't know! They went all in and from 1962 were used to declare war against African languages. That's why I, you, we write in English today.

I know you don't know this because it has been a best kept secret but if you're interested in further information, read the books below.

1. African languages and the CIA
2. The liberal conspiracy
3. White malice: The CIA and covert recolonization of Africa

You’re saying the CIA made Achebe to write Things Fall Apart in English in 1958?

I’m not really sure what you are saying, man.

lamentor78:
He can name a river or forest in the East after him.

Like the River Niger?

That would be quite a step.

River Achebe.

Tellmeastory:
You’re saying the CIA made Achebe to write Things Fall Apart in English in 1958?

I’m not really sure what you are saying, man.

They've already been trained for that in school like every other African in colonial Africa. Ask yourself: why didn't white people who commissioned the translation of the European Bible into native African languages, promote literature in native African languages?

No.

yarimo:
nobody is stopping you from honouring him

oga we his kinsmen no need am. Make una drug lord look for another cultist or ex drug baron honor as usual.

musicwriter:
They've already been trained for that in school like every other African in colonial Africa. Ask yourself: why didn't white people who commissioned the translation of the European Bible into native African languages, promote literature in native African languages?

I get your point.

But you are making a bigger issue of it than it really is.

It’s not as if the books cannot be translated into native languages even today.

Nothing has been lost.

It’s just a question of demand, especially in a country like ours whose lingua franca is English, with those books written in English to reach the majority of Nigerians, and of course the outside world.

So leave the writers alone. They only responded to the society they found themselves in.

If we want indigenisation, it cannot start with the writers, but with the govt and people.

If the federal govt decides to change our lingua franca to say, Edo or Efik, it wouldn’t take 6 months before you start seeing all these great literary works being translated into Edo language.

So it all starts with the oga at the top!

I like seeing IPOB tears,it makes me very happy

Madups:
oga we his kinsmen no need am. Make una drug lord look for another cultist or ex drug baron honor as usual.

you didn't even read the thread you just rush to quote in the name of I have commented

It's not a must, as the president is not obligated by the law or constitution.

That said, it would be a great insult to the memory of Chinua Achebe, especially because things have gotten worse compared to GEJ's govt in which he rejected the third highest national award (CFR) —because of corruption and poverty in the country.

OP, you read Achebe, but you don't know the man.

yarimo:
you didn't even read the thread you just rush to quote in the name of I have commented

wetin make you feel say i nor read am? Mr itk

Tellmeastory:
I get your point.

But you are making a bigger issue of it than it really is.

It’s not as if the books cannot be translated into native languages even today.

Nothing has been lost.

It’s just a question of demand, especially in a country like ours whose lingua franca is English, with those books written in English to reach the majority of Nigerians, and of course the outside world.

So leave the writers alone. They only responded to the society they found themselves in.

If we want indigenisation, it cannot start with the writers, but with the govt and people.

If the federal govt decides to change our lingua franca to say, Edo or Efik, it wouldn’t take 6 months before you start seeing all these great literary works being translated into Edo language.

So it all starts with the oga at the top!

It's a big deal, in fact, the biggest deal but which we've been deliberately kept dumb about.

It actually needs to start by writing in our native language because that's how everything got destroyed in the first place. The same way literature and culture were destroyed is exactly the same way it would be restored back.

And nobody says that we shouldn't study English or even write in English. But nothing in history guarantees that white people and their civilization and language would last forever. Many civilizations have come and gone throughout history. If you just go back a little in history, Latin and Greek used to be the language of Europe. But today Latin is dead, Greek is spoken in just one country. So did the ancient Egyptian language die. So did Sumer and others.

We have ignorantly staked the survival of our culture upon the success of white people. We have ignorantly mortgaged the survival of African cultures on belief that white civilization is immuned against destruction like the many civilizations that have come and gone before them. That's a very dumb thing to do. We have everything it takes to stand on our own language.

You don't need to write in English to win a nobel laureate. More Chinese writers have won the nobel laureate writing in Chinese than those who won writing in English. But what they do is write their books in their beautiful Chinese language, then translate to English. Do you know that there are more English speakers in China than the whole of Nigeria? But every Chinese has mastery in the Chinese language, not in English.

We can write our books in our beautiful native African languages, then translate to English and win a nobel laureate. If we're to be said to be in our right state of mind, the mastery in writing should be in our native language, not in someone else's language. We are keeping our intellectual property in someone else's language!! Oh, my people perish for lack of knowledge

Quintessence44:
Actually you are wrong.

So called dead people are alive in another dimension.

They are more alive than you.

I'm so interested in what you have to say. I know there's more to this life than our minds can fathom.

Tellmeastory:
The FG must name something big in this country after the legendary Professor Chinua Achebe.

I am a great fan and reader of Wole Soyinka, by the way, so this is not based on any beef with the great Nobel-winning writer, who certainly earned the right to have the National Theatre named after him by President Tinubu.

But we must not put Chinua Achebe, the Booker Prize winning author of Africa’s greatest novel, Things Fall Apart, in the position of the proverbial lizard of his great book who fell from the tall iroko tree, and promised to praise himself if no one else did.

That book is Required Reading in the curricula of schools all over the world, from Kenya to the USA.

It has been translated into over 100 languages worldwide, and remains till date, the biggest selling novel by an African, bringing great honour to Nigeria.

Achebe was also an erudite advocate for good governance and govt accountability.

According to wiki

“Chinua Achebe…. was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated, and read African novel.

Along with Things Fall Apart, his No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964) complete the "African Trilogy".

Later novels include A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987).

In the West, Achebe is often referred to as the "father of African literature", although he vigorously rejected the characterization.“

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

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Gentlemen, we must honour this man.

A great man is a greate man, whether u honor him or not ...if they like they should ignore him because of politics .....what is Diamond is diamond, no one can change it

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣


Always like to attach sentiments and tribal bullshits to everything.....

May God deliver Ndigbo from jealousy and hate…😂🤣😀

Tellmeastory:
I am not an Obidient.

I realise this forum is a cesspit of tribalism and hatred, but I’m not part of your pigsty.

I’m just a normal Nigerian passing through.

You be igbo abi you no be igbo ?

I’m one thing I love about Tinubu unlike other past leader is that he listens. Chinua Achebe will be honored

Tellmeastory:
The FG must name something big in this country after the legendary Professor Chinua Achebe.

I am a great fan and reader of Wole Soyinka, by the way, so this is not based on any beef with the great Nobel-winning writer, who certainly earned the right to have the National Theatre named after him by President Tinubu.

But we must not put Chinua Achebe, the Booker Prize winning author of Africa’s greatest novel, Things Fall Apart, in the position of the proverbial lizard of his great book who fell from the tall iroko tree, and promised to praise himself if no one else did.

That book is Required Reading in the curricula of schools all over the world, from Kenya to the USA.

It has been translated into over 100 languages worldwide, and remains till date, the biggest selling novel by an African, bringing great honour to Nigeria.

Achebe was also an erudite advocate for good governance and govt accountability.

According to wiki

“Chinua Achebe…. was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated, and read African novel.

Along with Things Fall Apart, his No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964) complete the "African Trilogy".

Later novels include A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987).

In the West, Achebe is often referred to as the "father of African literature", although he vigorously rejected the characterization.“

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

……..


Gentlemen, we must honour this man.

Is this now a competition? Go and carry him now. Na by force? Wait until the Agulu fraud becomes president in 3050. Kayyy?

christistruth01:
They should ask first because last time Chinua Achebe didn't want the FG Honor

Achebe has honoured himself his name will continue to be famous for decades to come as a result of his wonderful books

OkoYibo:
Chinua Achebe spent his latter years writing nonsense about Nigeria and Goodlock Jonathan ensured he was buried like a dog.

If he wasn't such a bitter old loser, he would have been celebrated.

Anyway, Tinubu has named an Expressway after him. If you feel it isn't enough, you donate your sisters to his family to honour him more.

He has honoured himself with his great piece of art work and would be remembered by generations to come

Tellmeastory:
I was referring to national honours.

Surely you know the difference.

Please remind me of an author that rejected national honour.

Tellmeastory:
I was referring to national honours.

Surely you know the difference.

He rejected several national honours while alive his home state have named the anambra airport after him so what's the point of creating this
thread?

Quintessence44:
Actually you are wrong.

So called dead people are alive in another dimension.

They are more alive than you.

Very true some have even reportedly came back physically to impregnate several women.

patrickcollins:
Achebe has honoured himself his name will continue to be famous for decades to come as a result of his wonderful books

True

As for gringolandia, their final collapse is accelerating.
zio-western terrorists are doomed 💯

Bossly:
True

As for gringolandia, their final collapse is accelerating.
zio-western terrorists are doomed 💯

You are the nairaland terrorist

Interesting take. Why the undue comparison? So anything Soyinka gets, Achebe should be pitied and compensated so as not to offend the tribe. May God cure Nigeria.

Branco6:
Same Nobel prize every and I mean EVERY African writer boycotted that year?
Okay😄

Lies from IPOB Facebook page.

😂 😂 😂

Tellmeastory:
The irony of this thread is that the loudest negative responses are from people who have not read a single work by either Soyinka or Achebe.

Literary illiterates and mental midgets who care overwhelmingly more about the “tribe” of the writer than his literary output.

The fact that Achebe's work make more sense to you doesn't mean that Soyinka's work won't make more sense to the majority.

You talk like a typical Obidient.

Ofemannnu:
Nobel laureate is all about class not only story telling.
One of the things that killed Achebe was not winning the Nobel.
It is the dream of all writers but unfortunately,only the best wins it while the rest rant.

This is story is not correct.
But I'm sure you loved his literature than Wole's