EclecticBen:
Hungry person is aggressive

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.

PaellaPaella:








Illiterate, Na stats we go chop

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.

PaellaPaella:








Illiterate Puttinofewedu

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.

Thormentor:

Data and truth make you people cry we are used to it una papa once said na statistics we go chop? and turn out to be a bigger failure than Buhari in his 1st year in office

Ayo worry about the fact that Lagos state is deporting you asses

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.

Thormentor:



No Statisense get thier data from Onitsha mumu man

I'm also glad Statisense is owned by Yorubas


and they keep bringing out data to make you cry

you people are the ones wailing Ebi npa wa o

It is fake.It is just to press your mumu button.
You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.

Thormentor:


you're still crying since two days now

one more data to make give you more crying days

First one is about the richest households in Nigeria

the second is the study on migration pattern to Lagos Igbos make just a little over 7% of the those migrating to Lagos

while Osun deportees and co make a whooping 98+ percent of those running from thier slums to form online Lagosians

the third is a data showing " I live in my state of origin" a data to show those who live more in thier states of Origin
again SW are the highest living outside Thier states of Origin none of them were upto 90% in thier states all of una don run go Lagos and be forming Lagosians online . No wonder they deported you

1,2,3 GOO! cry loading......

Olodo.It is fake.
You and everybody know the reality.
Is statisense NBS?
You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.

rantingpigs:
See cry cry dey form gallant.

I ask..who get this song..

Ebin pa wa? Is that Rocket science?

Hunger has turned your intestines to cow rope

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.

rantingpigs:
Every tribe has beggars ..

Only 1 tribe has

Ebin pa wa choristers, and that is SW.

The sad part is these Ebin pa wa miscreants are not disabled.

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.
So you too dey do babianla for SW.
Povertybado

lastmessenger:
I hope this national anthem transformers ogbomosho to the next lagos

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW instead of this your foolish argument.

The defining qualities for the Nobel are high intentions, intelligent and brilliant execution, and seriousness about mankind and our ideals and situation.

A lot of bestsellers don’t make the grade. It’s not because they are popular. It’s because you got them at McDonald’s. It’s not McPoisonous, because it’s made to a certain McStandard of hygiene, but it’s not wonderful.

Don’t try to call it gourmet dining. Embrace the fundamental tackiness and enjoy it, but don’t demand elevation to the pantheon of honour in modern literature. These books were not written with serious literary intentions.


They were written with a goal to entertain, often to entertain within the confines of some genre, and even when they are intelligently told, it is not the job of such writers to think below the surface of their material.

rantingpigs:
You ain't smart at all...you are summersaulting in total ignorance.

Migration is to Lagos state alone. Who migrates to epic slums and pigstys you call states in the SW?

Even TINUBU denied OSUN. So why did he migrate to LAGOS?

You are even deported to OSUn forests..by your own people. Lagosians have stated emphatically that Lagos won't be smongst the SW region. So why are you attaching by force?

You need to be deported ASAP, so that you shout lagba in OSHOGBO..

Ozuor

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW instead of this your foolish argument.
Poverty don wire Igbos three much.
Igbos are doing babianla all over SW.
Gbam!!!

rantingpigs:
Omo just read what you wrote down and see how useless you actually are

So interms of purchasing power Yoruba pass IGBOs? But same Yoruba is shouting and wailing about hunger everywhere?

Ebin pa wa is IGBO language abi?
You are all shamelessly lost and the only thing that will make you wakeup is abandonment when you have ODUDUWORM Republic.

Hunger has built duplexes in the SW..

Na wa

Na Igbos wey sabi speak yoruba still dey sing the usual Igbo song in Yoruba language nah.

Ok,name one Yoruba wey dey sing that Igbo slogan.
None, but people wey dey sing 'increased hunger' in the SE include....
Ohanaeze,Cubana,Charles anazodo etc.

You should be worried about how extreme poverty is making Igbo generations flee to the SW instead of this your foolish argument.

rantingpigs:
Tomorrow they will be shouting IGR Nonsense and being degenerates, while poverty is in their DNA

They have more IGR than you because the citizens have the power to pay unlike Igbos who cannot pay because of extreme poverty.
The way Igbos are fleeing to the SW is really mind boggling.
Extremely extreme poverty dey wire Igbos o.

Thormentor:


SE is more literated than SW that's a known fact

More literated
No wonder SE is backward.

rantingpigs:
A mere trade known as Peter Obi defeated a worthless accountant in the LAGOS he built.

That is enough for me..

Oh,oh the Agulu trader.
Go and sleep,trader.
Abi you dey hawk chewing sticks in traffic for night?
Wetin we dey talk pass ya brain.

Nonny95:


You no dey shame😂.

While the rest of the world is in 2024?

Yoruba Ronu and shamelessness

Coward.
Him say make you post una huts with everywhere full with totori

SonofLagos:
tomorrow they will tell us how they developed Ibadan, and they have bought all the land and chased Yorubas to Ogbomosh

lol

Iupacnomenclatu:
joke of the year!omo yoruba ni mi ooo,so don't try your tribal nonsense.

Shey you can help your ipo.b brothers post just 6 good areas in the entire Igboland,sir omo Yoruba?
Including Onitsha that Yoruba descendants built.
Oya sir.We want see something

maestroferddi:
You can compile a book with your facetious list but tell me which of the works you listed can hold a candle to:

Things Fall Apart;

Arrow of God;

No Longer At Ease...?

We are talking about Things Fall Apart which has been listed among the 100 greatest novels of all time and you are showing mass production most of which never went beyond the University of Ibadan theatre gallery...

Achebe was a mere story teller.
He is a tales by moonlight presenter not worthy to lace the shoes of a Nobel laureate like Prof Wole Soyinka.
If Achebe lived 150 years,a baby like him cannot win the Nobel laureate.
You can cry us a drum of tears.

rantingpigs:
Are you actually asking this question?

What manner of sophisticated illiteracy is prevalent in the SW.

Don't you see that the Statisense data outlay smashed the SW in comparism to the SE?

This Awolowo free education' is really affecting you guys ooo..

Na wa..

You dont understand data.
You are a mere trader.
Go and hawk your chewing stick.

Obaaderemi2:
What's totori?

Igbo yansh and frontage

Paystack:


Continue crying

Agbero

1959 totori thing.
Abi you wan see how dumb una dey for 1959

Paystack:

Continue crying.

We know people topping the country academically.

Average Yoruba with same IQ as that of a monkey

Even Abokinah the outsmart Una

lol
Says a dumbo that his people were roaming with their totoris till 1959
Serial dumbos wey Yorubas still dey use.

Paystack:


I repeat

They're going there to outsmart you, pack your wealth and bring back home 🏠

Shey like Obi outsmarted Tinubu?
Or Achebe outsmarted Prof Soyinka?
1 million Igbos cannot outsmart just one Yoruba.
They dont have the intelligence.
Igbos just come to the SW to hawk chewing stick and gala in the traffic and beg for alms from their rich Yoruba hosts.
Poverty don quench people finish for SE....Cubana,Ohanaeze.Umahi..

Paystack:


They're going there to pack your remaining wealth and bring back home.

Poverty dey wire Igbos too much.
Remember Umahi said 11 million Igbos have fled to the SW due to poverty.
Cubana,Charles Anazodo and Ohanaeze also said the same thing about poverty in the SE.

Thormentor:


lol I'm from South East Anambra to be precise tell me your state let me check something

i served in yewa North Ogun state i know una reach house

which state are you from?

I pick Ibadan.
Ibadan is more developed than the entire SE Igboland even with its old side.

kettykin:


How many of these sold upto 100,000 copies outside the shores of Nigeria. Most of these are short poems and drama and not novels . It is novels that rule the world of literature and not poems.nibhave friends and relatives that have written more poems than this. In this artificial intelligence age , I can surpass this poems and plays in 24 hours

lol
Talk is cheap.
Chimamanda is still alive.Tell her to do close to these.
If she didnt win a Nobel,then we will know there is something fishy.
The truth is neither Chima nor Acheba has the strength.
We are differently gifted.
Only a genius like Prof Soyinka could do that.

Secondly,,there are a lo of best sellers who didnt win Nobel because it is 'special'

Took this from Quora...

Why are books by Nobel literature Laureates not best sellers?
For one thing, the Nobel is an international prize. In the last ten years' winners, only three are primarily writing in English. A lot of prizes are awarded for efforts in poetry and drama, which you wouldn't find on bookshelves in any case.

Also, the prize was not always as elitist as it is today. Historical winners include Ernest Hemingway, Pearl S Buck and Rudyard Kipling, all big-selling authors in their day.

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For the same reason that McDonalds doesn't have any Michelin stars. Product made for mass consumption requiring little consideration of it's value is not the same as great food or literature.

Both have their place in the market but they cater for a different consumer.

Are there writers whose popularity has kept them from ever earning a Nobel Prize in Literature?
The short answer is, “No, don’t be silly.”

To pick a few writers whose work sold well who won the Nobel, consider Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Pearl S. Buck, and Sinclair Lewis.

Recall what the award was set up to do. The award was supposed to go to an author from any country “who has produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.”

That is a bit vague, but there should be an emphasis on the words outstanding work and ideal.

So the goals are that the work should be of superlative quality and that there is a tendency towards advancing ideals.

From these goals, we can reasonably conclude that they want to choose writers who have produced great works of literature, and that the literature needs to say something about the ideals and goals of Man and society.

The Nobel committee has made many dubious choices over the years, but they have never been deterred by good sales or popularity. They have sometimes chosen writers who were perhaps not quite of the first rank, but you could never argue that the choices were entirely frivolous. Debatable yes.

Now, let’s look at this question from the other direction. Consider some popular novels. Do people who are serious lovers of literature want the author of Fifty Shades of Grey to receive a Nobel? No, oh god no. Is it because of the popularity of the books? No, it’s because the books are, quite frankly, a boatload of bat guano that panders to a taste for a certain type of salaciousness that is frankly tedious if you aren’t subject to such obsessions. Similarly, who would seriously advance the case for a Nobel for Dan Brown? Or Ken Follett? None of us begrudge others their appetite for the literary equivalent of a McDonald’s greaseburger, but don’t try to convince us that it is truite braisée aux champignons et au riesling.

The defining qualities for the Nobel are high intentions, intelligent and brilliant execution, and seriousness about mankind and our ideals and situation.

A lot of bestsellers don’t make the grade. It’s not because they are popular. It’s because you got them at McDonald’s. It’s not McPoisonous, because it’s made to a certain McStandard of hygiene, but it’s not wonderful. Don’t try to call it gourmet dining. Embrace the fundamental tackiness and enjoy it, but don’t demand elevation to the pantheon of honour in modern literature. These books were not written with serious literary intentions. They were written with a goal to entertain, often to entertain within the confines of some genre, and even when they are intelligently told, it is not the job of such writers to think below the surface of their material.

Achebe was just a mere story teller.
Soyinka is more of a genius.
This is Soyinka's showcase:
Plays

Keffi's Birthday Treat (1954)
The Invention (1957)
The Swamp Dwellers (1958)
A Quality of Violence (1959)[134]
The Lion and the Jewel (1959)
The Trials of Brother Jero (1960)
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
My Father's Burden (1960)
The Strong Breed (1964)
Before the Blackout (1964)
Kongi's Harvest (1964)
The Road (1965)
Madmen and Specialists (1970)
The Bacchae of Euripides (1973)
Camwood on the Leaves (1973)
Jero's Metamorphosis (1973)
Death and the King's Horseman (1975)
Opera Wonyosi (1977)
Requiem for a Futurologist (1983)
A Play of Giants (1984)
Childe Internationale (1987)[135][136]
From Zia with Love (1992)
The Detainee (radio play)
A Scourge of Hyacinths (radio play)
The Beatification of the Area Boy (1996)
Document of Identity (radio play, 1999)
King Baabu (2001)
Etiki Revu Wetin
Alapata Apata (2011)
"Thus Spake Orunmila" (in Sixty-Six Books (2011)


Novels

The Interpreters (1965)
Season of Anomy (1973)
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (Bookcraft, Nigeria; Bloomsbury, UK; Pantheon, US, 2021)[138][139]
Harmattan Haze on an African Spring
Short stories

A Tale of Two (1958)
Egbe's Sworn Enemy (1960)
Madame Etienne's Establishment (1960)
Memoirs

The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972)
Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981)
Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1945–1965 (1989)
Ìsarà: A Voyage around Essay (1989)
You Must Set Forth at Dawn (2006)
Climate of Fear (Literature) (2005)
Poetry collections

Telephone Conversation (1963) (appeared in Modern Poetry in Africa)
Idanre and other poems (1967)
A Big Airplane Crashed into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison) (1969)
A Shuttle in the Crypt (1971)
Ogun Abibiman (1976)
Mandela's Earth and other poems (1988)
Early Poems (1997)
Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2002)
Essays

"Towards a True Theater" (1962)
Culture in Transition (1963)
Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition
A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced
Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture (1988)
From Drama and the African World View (1976)
Myth, Literature, and the African World (1976)
The Blackman and the Veil (1990)[141]
The Credo of Being and Nothingness (1991)
The Burden of Memory – The Muse of Forgiveness (1999)
A Climate of Fear (the BBC Reith Lectures 2004, audio and transcripts)
New Imperialism (2009)
Of Africa (2012)[143]
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions (2019)

Films

Kongi's Harvest
Culture in Transition
Blues for a Prodigal
Translations

The Forest of a Thousand Demons: A Hunter's Saga (1968; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa's Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀)
In the Forest of Olodumare (2010; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa's Igbo Olodumare)
..

Makavelli001:
I think the comparision of Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe is mischievous at best.

There is no comparison really.

I like to think that what makes someone a SPECTACULAR writer is their ability to tell stories that finds a home in your heart.

I left secondary school MANY YEARS AGO, and I can tell you, that there are literatures I read back then, that I can still remember today... I can remember the dialogues... Incidents...Names... And even the pictures I created in my mind of what I think the writer was trying to portray.

I only read Wole Soyinka because I needed to pass my literature exams.
I remember how we had to debate The Lion and the jewel in our literature class... Soyinka portrayed Africa like a helpless continent that needed western civilization to survive.
I have never opened any of his books since after secondary school.

But I have read Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe more than 10 times.
I have read The Concubine by Elechi Amadi more than 15 times.

I mean, from start to end.

I have replayed different scenarios and different endings in my head.

I have thought about A Things Fall Apart where Ikemefuna did not die...
A concubine where Ihuoma's children didn't hunt lizards on the very day Ekwume came visiting...

These are memories that will remain with me forever because a writer dared intrude my subconscious and made a home there.
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.
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I will chose to read Efuru by Flora Nwapa over any of Woke Soyinka "finest works".

There are at least 10 African writers who I'll read first before I pick any Wole Soyinkas books, like;
Ngugi wa Thiongo
Cyprian Ekwensi
Mongo Beti
Buchi Emecheta
Aye Kwei Armah
Etc.

And No, my submission is NOT because of the politics of "ANYWHERE BELLE FACE' Wole Soyinka has subjected himself to, which has made him a nuisance/laughing stock right now, it's just how I have always felt about his works.
I never connected to ANY of his books, I had to struggle to read, to relate, or even understand them and I have read over 200 books from African writers series alone.

Many Nigerians will easily remember Ikemefuna and Okonkwo more than they can remember any character in Wole Soyinka's books, this is because of RELATABILITY, a writer speaking to the reader in a familiar language.

Chinua Achebe is NIGERIA'S GREATEST LITERARY EXPORT to the world and there is a reason he is called THE GODFATHER OF AFRICAN LITERATURE...

I mean, THINGS FALL APART alone has been translated into 57 Languages!!!

It is not news that the reason why Achebe was snubbed for a Nobel Prize for literature was because he was too committed in his support of African culture and the oppressed, instead of using his platform to serve the interests of big powers in the west who were and are still our puppet masters.

Like the late Nelson Mandela once said; paraphrased, Achebe is the writer in whose company the prison walls fell down.

Achebe is THE GOAT.
There is NO COMPARISON.
Kapish?

If you are good,you are good.
The truth is Achebe was a great man but he was lesser to the Nobel Laureate,Wole Soyinka.
Achebe was a small baby compared to Professor Wole Soyinka,his father.

Thormentor:


hahaha

all your brothers here said since SW by PERCENT is 3% more better than SE so SW is better

preferring percentage to raw data


I then brought percentage most urbanised region in Nigeria you still dey cry

I'm here to torment you

Remember Umahi said 11 million Igbos have fled to the SW due to poverty.
Cubana,Charles Anazodo and Ohanaeze also cried out.
Do you by a flicker believe that SE has more people in their towns than SW?
With some Igbos waiting impatiently for night buses to ferry them to the SW as we speak?

DamnnNiggarr:

Without sentiment and biased disposition, I think you're right.
Let's do a little computation to verify the above claim.

SW

Lagos with actual population of 15.80 million(3 out of 10) = 4.74 million(which represents 30% of the total Lagos population)

Ogun with a population of 6.50 million (7 out of 10) = 4.60 million(which represents 70% of the total population of Ogun State)

Osun State with a population of 4.20 million (4 out of 10) = 1.68 million( which represents 40% of the total population of Osun State)

Ondo with a population of 5.50 million (3 out of 10) = 1.6 million ( which represents 30% of the total population of Ondo)

Oyo State with a population of 7.50 million (5 out of 10) = 3.75 million ( which represents 50% of the total population of Oyo)

Ekiti State with a population of 3.40 million (4 out of 10)= 1.40 million ( which represents 40% of the total population of Ekiti State)

SE

Anambra State with a population of 7.30 million (3 out of 10) = 2.20 million ( which represents 30% of the total population of Anambra State)

Abia State with a population of 5.00 million (3 out of 10) = 1.50 million ( which represents 30% of the total population of Abia State)

Enugu State with a population of 5.40 million (6 out of 10) = 3.24 million ( which represents 60% of the total population of Enugu State)

Ebonyi State with a population of 4.00 million (3 out of 4) = 3.00 million ( which represents 75% of the total population of Ebonyi State)

Imo State with a population of 6.10 million (4 out of 10) = 2.44 million ( which represents 40% of the total population of Imo State)

So, in summary;
SW with a population of 42.90 million and a population of 17.77 million people living in multidimensional poverty, represents 41.40% of the total population of SW

SE with a population of 27.80 million and a population of 12.38 million people living in multidimensional poverty, represents 45% of the total population of the SE.

3.6% difference.

This above is based on the information provided by seunmsg

If you are using that computation,Lagos is mor than 16 million and it is still the largest city in Africa.
Zoom in to get the others.
If you are using this, Enugu is 826,000.