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Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by Shugavee(f): 1:37am On Apr 13, 2018 |
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Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by Shugavee(f): 1:38am On Apr 13, 2018 |
BluntBoy:lol angry that what!! I aint good with arguments!!! Just stated my points!! N just so u know I know all the writers u wrote up there!! Sleep tight 1 Like |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by BluntBoy(m): 1:40am On Apr 13, 2018 |
Shugavee: I am tempted to get back into the chat but..let us just go to bed Sweet dreams. 2 Likes |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by calliope(f): 1:52am On Apr 13, 2018 |
ameri9ja:Does it matter? |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by perdollar(m): 2:06am On Apr 13, 2018 |
one represent a typical Igbo man while d other represent a typical Yoruba man |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by ameri9ja: 2:38am On Apr 13, 2018 |
calliope: It matters (like in Messi vs Ronaldo) but it doesn't apply because they are in different fields. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by ameri9ja: 2:40am On Apr 13, 2018 |
lastempero: There is 10 times more tribalism in NL than in real life. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by Nobody: 2:45am On Apr 13, 2018 |
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Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by brightlinse(m): 3:03am On Apr 13, 2018 |
noble71:Call Biafra |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by PAGAN9JA(m): 4:40am On Apr 13, 2018 |
BluntBoy: Is it now? I thought it deplored the fact thar we stopped worshiping the Gods. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by lastempero: 5:59am On Apr 13, 2018 |
ameri9ja: Yea because most NL are jobless, so they try to vent their angers away through that medium. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by planetzoom: 6:29am On Apr 13, 2018 |
Chinua Achebe was a radicalised ethnic bigot from the east,till he died he didn't see himself as a Nigerian neither did he accept all the national honours the Nigerian Government offered him. His opinions were too subjective and tilted towards Biafra as was seen in that last book he wrote'' There was a country '' Yet The Nigerian government gave him a state Burial |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by J2381: 6:55am On Apr 13, 2018 |
Wow! that's all I can say. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by J2381: 6:56am On Apr 13, 2018 |
ameri9ja:That's why it doesn't matter. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by CowHard: 7:45am On Apr 13, 2018 |
Fela was a rascal and an irresponsible chap that impregnated women at will |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by BluntBoy(m): 8:30am On Apr 13, 2018 |
PAGAN9JA: Bro, have you read Attahiru by Ahmed Yerima. Even though it was a historical play and Attahiru was killed, Yerima's sympathy and voice was with the blacks. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe was writing fiction as close to history as possible and yet failed to even give the gods some dignity. Everything happened so fast and there was little resistance to the power of the whiteman's God. Things Fall Apart is overrated. It is unoriginal. If you are looking for real African novel, try Elechi Amadi's The Concubine. That is purely African and with a sustained voice. Things Fall Apart never liberated Africa in anyway. It just has the hype. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by PAGAN9JA(m): 9:01am On Apr 13, 2018 |
BluntBoy: hmm Even I wondered why Achebe was given a very christian funeral upon his death. Anyways I'll try this book - The Concubine. Thanks! |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by Halo22: 9:52am On Apr 13, 2018 |
Neoblacks....... |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by BluntBoy(m): 9:56am On Apr 13, 2018 |
PAGAN9JA: Try it, my brother. It is a fine book. There is another wonderful writer too. Isidore Okpewho. Try reading his "The Victims". I love the man die Achebe has nothing on that man. One thing with life is that luck sometimes plays a great deal even if you are very gifted. Achebe was a great writer (or should I say, storyteller). His novel, "Arrow of God" is one of my favorite African novels of all time but I don't really fancy him even in the top ten very good African writers. 1 Like |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by judgedredd22(m): 10:05am On Apr 13, 2018 |
AuntLaVIV: this was the 80s not 70s |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by PAGAN9JA(m): 11:04am On Apr 13, 2018 |
BluntBoy: Ah yes . very true. Sure thing I'll check out these books. At times we tend to get brainwashed by the mainstream media. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by jchioma: 12:34pm On Apr 13, 2018 |
salvationproject: If you check well, you will see the 'hand' of "President Muhammadu Buhari" in the deaths of these great patriots by "Unknown soldier; Animal in human skin". Nothing good ever came from your saviour. I once thought Buhari was the best alternative for Nigeria, but with all these emerging facts and realities, he is certainly more clueless than GEJ and has poor comprehension and decision making capabilities. How he managed to fuul Nigerians into believing he had changed, beats me hollow. Never again, Never again, Never again! |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by juddy4life: 2:07pm On Apr 13, 2018 |
Great men. May you gentle souls RIP. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by Nobody: 9:07pm On Apr 14, 2018 |
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Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by Nobody: 9:11pm On Apr 14, 2018 |
BluntBoy:I doubt you know anything about African literature. Those two you mentioned cannot lace Achebe's shoes. Writers who could not stand toe to toe with Ngugi wa Thiongo, the greatest of Achebe's influences. Even Elechi Amadi copied Achebe form and style of writing. He as well as the likes of Okpewho and so many other, are called the "sons of Achebe" by the African literary cycle because their style of writing was influenced by Achebe himself. Achebe was not just the father of African literature because of his book "Things Fall Apart", he the was the greatest because he nurtured African literature through his editorship of the African Writers Series and changed the way African's tell their story by introducing a new form of writing colored with proverbs, fables and cultural symbolism to which every writer of African origin could tell their stories. Achebe was the first African writer to write a true African novel that today the Achebian style of writing has become a yardstick scholars all over the world judge your novel as an African. 2 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by BluntBoy(m): 10:28pm On Apr 14, 2018 |
Chiwude: SMH... The arrogance with which you people display your ignorance is just baffling. Show me articles or audios where these writers claimed to have Achebe as an influence. If you talk about Adichie, fine. But to say the likes of Okpewho were influenced by Achebe is rather moronic. First of all, Okpewho's style of writing is totally different from Achebe's and many of these writers have been writing before the publication of Things Fall Apart. Yes, Things Fall Apart brought African literature largely to the world and Achebe did help many African writers get published through the African Writers Series, but it is rather dishonest to call these writers the children of Achebe. On what basis should you even call these greats the children of Achebe? |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by Ejorchris: 10:29pm On Apr 14, 2018 |
Aboki don't have such legends but good in producing killers. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by BluntBoy(m): 10:35pm On Apr 14, 2018 |
Chiwude: Writers like Soyinka had a later publication with African Writers Series and that was after he had established himself as a playwright and poet. Nadine Gordimer also has just one publication under AWS and it a novella and some short stories. I bet you really think Soyinka and Gordimer are also Achebe's children. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by NdiaraIGBO: 10:36pm On Apr 14, 2018 |
BluntBoy: This is the reason the racist whites like "Things fall apart" - for its savagery account of IGBO way of life, which the ready racists took for African life. A savage cultureless land of the Igbos. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by BluntBoy(m): 10:40pm On Apr 14, 2018 |
NdiaraIGBO: Exactly. Even though Achebe matured and produced much better and sustained works such as No Longer At Ease and A Man Of the People and his last novel (Anthills of the Savannah), the white race continue to promote Things Fall Apart as a great work of fiction because it blatantly promotes their superiority over the black race. |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by NdiaraIGBO: 10:45pm On Apr 14, 2018 |
BluntBoy: The book should be burned by the Nigerian government. Very terrible book though it was factual about Igboland. But unfortunately igboland was extremely insular and uncivilised to be the setting for such a book which the racists gave a high profile. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Chinua Achebe And Fela Kuti In The 1980s (Throwback Photo) by Malawian(m): 12:23am On Apr 15, 2018 |
Fela Kuti was begging for Unity. |
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