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Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by ContractKiller: 3:54pm On May 30, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uys3XuJBnro


Just listen to the effortless ease and confidence with which these brilliant minds discuss complex ideas about African cultural identity and how it can be adapted to reflect modern societal norms.
Just watching them interact is like drinking from a fountain of wisdom.

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by bigdammyj: 3:59pm On May 30, 2020
Good Memory

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by IDeyFlogAllah(m): 4:03pm On May 30, 2020
O boy, listen to the articulate use of the English language by these gentlemen. But if you hear some so-called lecturers speak English in our present day universities, even in the English language department, you'll be feeling like muzzling them. grin

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by bigdammyj: 4:08pm On May 30, 2020
IDeyFlogAllah:
O boy, listen to the articulate use of the English language by these gentlemen. But if you hear some so-called lecturers speak English in our present day universities, even in the English language department, you'll be feeling like muzzling them. grin

That was when Education had meaning/value. Phonetic was a pride then
Today, it's all about the "cert"

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by hucienda: 4:08pm On May 30, 2020
Make una see interview abeg. Intellectual discussions and analysis! Oh such quality. Legends in the making. Young men in their early 30s. When men were men.

Good Lord how we really need those breed of young men of the 1960s today.

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by IDeyFlogAllah(m): 4:12pm On May 30, 2020
You hit the nail on the head! They will brandish that Certificate everywhere, but when you hear the backstory of how they got it, you'll know that 90% of the so called certificates are just worthless pieces of paper angry


bigdammyj:


That was when Education had meaning/value. Phonetic was a pride then
Today, it's all about the "cert"

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by juman(m): 4:15pm On May 30, 2020
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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by slivertongue: 4:17pm On May 30, 2020
WISEMEN
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by sexylassie2(f): 4:17pm On May 30, 2020
The weakness of our society is the inability to adapt.

Is this not what is affecting many Nigerians today

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by TheExecutioner: 4:18pm On May 30, 2020
The way things are looking, it may never happen. Nigeria is a country where you have to pray for the best, but prepare your mind for the worst.

hucienda:
Make una see interview abeg. Intellectual discussions and analysis! Legends in the making. Young men in their early 30s. When men were men.

Looks like we need those breed of young men of the 1960s today.
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by tillaman(m): 4:26pm On May 30, 2020
grin
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by Lethal234(m): 4:41pm On May 30, 2020
Those men were taught directly by the British, they sure showed value for it.

Too much Derivative kills the Originality.

This is Beauty, the kind of History we should present.

I wish seun would create a history section.

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by qwertyboss(m): 4:43pm On May 30, 2020
IDeyFlogAllah:
O boy, listen to the articulate use of the English language by these gentlemen. But if you hear some so-called lecturers speak English in our present day universities, even in the English language department, you'll be feeling like muzzling them. grin
Seriously!
I had one GSP lecturer who often say " actually eventually " regardless of the context of his speech and up till today I don't know how those two words collocate.
Imagine he is even a PhD holder

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by Subduer: 4:48pm On May 30, 2020
Lethal234:
Those men were taught directly by the British, they sure showed value for it.

Too much Derivative kills the Originality.

This is Beauty, the kind of History we should present.

Before poultry Primary & Secondary Schools flooded Nigeria with their own graduates, who CONSISTENTLY help rig erections for their benefactors.
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by IDeyFlogAllah(m): 4:55pm On May 30, 2020
PhDs are sold and bought by the highest bidders these days. Nigeria's entire education architecture is a sick joke.


qwertyboss:

Seriously!
I had one GSP lecturer who often say " actually eventually " regardless of the context of his speech and up till today I don't know how those two words collocate.
Imagine he is even a PhD holder

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by omonnakoda: 5:02pm On May 30, 2020
Struck by the fact that both men still used the term " Negro"
Aged 30 and 34 Hmm
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by fishjam: 5:13pm On May 30, 2020
Brilliant
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by FlordFlorez(m): 5:20pm On May 30, 2020
Brainy ones.
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by BeLookingIDIOT(m): 5:26pm On May 30, 2020
The junior one later went on to win a noble prize.
The other one's people have been in pain ever since.

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by AhoadaRivers: 5:35pm On May 30, 2020
Lewis Nkosi the South African writer with them really troubled the Apartheid government, he left the country and never came back to his Zulu homeland in South Africa until after more than 30 years in exile. He died in 2010, nine years after returning to South Africa.

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by Nobody: 5:39pm On May 30, 2020
Intellectuals like Wole Soyinka,Chinua Ichebe should have been the ones running the country after we got independence in 1960.

Instead we got the OBJ,IBB,Abacha,Abdusalami,Buhari,GEJ and yet we wonder why the country is a failed state.

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by IDeyFlogAllah(m): 5:41pm On May 30, 2020
Negro was still considered a polite terminology back then (unlike its ugly counterpart Nigger) Even Martin Luther King and Malcolm X used the word when referring to people of African descent.


omonnakoda:
Struck by the fact that both men still used the term " Negro"
Aged 30 and 34 Hmm

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by DAramis: 5:57pm On May 30, 2020
This is when men were MEN
Both are not looking bad in their youth.
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by Shellsploit: 6:14pm On May 30, 2020
Great memories!
I was the man behind the camera.

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by ThatFairGuy: 6:21pm On May 30, 2020
Men.
Not all of us that now troll each other's tribe on NL these days. Some retards may mean theirs but Mine is just for fun though grin

Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by omonnakoda: 6:23pm On May 30, 2020
Funny how Achebe predicts what has about to happen to his people in 3 years time in discussing the tragedy of the "strongman " that won't bend

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by Firstorderwizard(m): 6:28pm On May 30, 2020
This thread will not make front-page
Imagine if it is snake or Regina Nwoko undecided

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by freethinker01: 8:36pm On May 30, 2020
Very articulate and well spoken men... Intellectual lots.
Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by omonnakoda: 8:39pm On May 30, 2020
Firstorderwizard:
This thread will not make front-page
Imagine if it is snake or Regina Nwoko undecided
Why should it?

That would be casting pearls before pigs literally

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by omonnakoda: 8:40pm On May 30, 2020
DAramis:
This is when men where MEN
Both are not looking bad in their youth.
WERE men

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by Nobody: 8:58pm On May 30, 2020
hucienda:
Make una see interview abeg. Intellectual discussions and analysis! Oh such quality. Legends in the making. Young men in their early 30s. When men were men.

Good Lord how we really need those breed of young men of the 1960s today.
That's to show you how far we have DETERIORATED.
IF you hear OJUKWU speak, you will be marvelled.
The striking thing is that Ojukwu spoke Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa fluently.
These were INTELLIGENT MEN...
IF you hear TAFAWA BALEWA speak, you would wonder how people from that side voted Buhari into power..

Tafawa Balewa was sound upstairs....
See Confidence and Comportment.
Abeg how did we degenerate to this stage...? cry cry cry cry cry


Watching this propelled tears down my face, especially when I remember some governors that have traversed some states across Nigeria.
cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry

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Re: Watch 1964 Television Interview Of Chinua Achebe By Wole Soyinka by omonnakoda: 9:13pm On May 30, 2020
To be fair to our generation the NIGERIAN ACCENT HAS DEVELOPED along a different trajectory since the colonialists left.

I think we should celebrate it.

If you listen to the recordings of that generation there was little trace of what is now recognised as a Nigerian accent .
In this recording the Nigerians didn't sound much different from the South African
Bear in mind that Soyinka's training was in drama and I would imagine than entails voice training at an intense level
If you listen to later recordings of Achebe,Soyinka and Ojukwu you would see that they changed over time without necessarily losing clarity .

I don't think we should go back to that.

Just like Americans diverged from their original British accents with time we have diverged from the colonial accent

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