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There are men whose influence are not dictated by prestigious awards, rather, their influence are dictated by the impact of their work. Dayokanu, you are a living disgrace, is nardine gordimer also not a nobel winner? is mandela not a nobel peace prize winner? Yet they acknowledged the great impact of the african crusader- achebe. Nobel winners honour achebe for his sacrifice towards africa. Achebe's works are beyond literature, they touch the human conscience, and this cost him the much deserved nobel prize. By the way, the nobel prize has no monopoly in rewarding literature. If achebe needed 6-digit-dollar worth of prize value, the title of his first book would have gotten it for him from 50cent.

@eko ile, you are a disgrace to africa. Even soyinka himself would never spew such despicable comments uttered by you. Nadine gordimer, another NOBEL winner, called achebe "father of modern african literature", and much of the world's literary community, even to achebe's hesitation and surprise, said AMEN to it. Ngugi, arymah,etc owe their deserved success to achebe, and they acknowleged it. Who is sam to attempt rubbishing achebe? Soyinka is a great african thinker of the very first order, the nobel comm got it right. Achebe is in his own right, is a great african conscience of the very first order, ask mandela, ask cnn, bbc, chinapost, aljazeera, forbes, telegraph, etc. Eko ile, achebe spoke against racism for every black man, including an ungrateful sam and you.

Some pple in NL shamelessly spew tribal excrement from their mouths... Leave achebe alone, go and give ur own account of the war....or better still, go and hug transformer...!

Awoyokun has proven to be a worthy devil's advocate. The fundamental question here still lies unanswered- if achebe and his biafrans were supremacists, tribalists, and liars, why werent they allowed to be on their own? Was biafra not a unanimous decision of the then eastern region? Britain had left nigeria 7yrs earlier, was it a sin for biafra to be on it's own (after all the "trouble" they put nigeria through)as at 1967? I look at the nigeria gowon, awolowo and co fought diabolically for and i laugh, it's not that i hate them or nigeria, it's just that ideas have a way of proving themselves either wrong or right. Awolowo did wrong in all his policies and actions towards biafra, this dosen't make him a devil though. I am igbo obviously, that is not to say that ojukwu was prudent in managing the war. Achebe has done well, his book is a personal memoir that grieves on the abuse of biafra's right to be independent.