ichidodo: SINCE YOU HAVE OPENED THE DOOR, LET US ENTER. WHO WAS THE FATHER OF CULTISM?

freechat: Please how many leaflets has this Sam Omatseye authored? Are any of his books used in Nigerian primary/secondary schools?

slimghost:

Please what is it won on? Enlighten us! Remember i asked him, is NELLY a better artiste or Lyricist? Even when he went platinum, they still refused to give him one. Now answer my question

nnenna.1:
When did the simplicity in literature come to mean lack of depth?

When did the overusage of the thesaurus become literary mastery?

Okay....since we are on about literary criticism, chew on this:

Nadine Gordimer, nobel prize winner, on Soyinka's writing style - "overly self-conscious"

Ben Okri on Soyinka writing style - "deprives us of a great deal of wisdom with the furies of complexities"

Femi Osofisan on Soyinka - "frenzied scenes of logorrhoea"

Guardian (UK) summary of criticism -"grandiloquence and obscurantism"

In other words, all style and little substance.

I did like his plays, but his prose works are too showy and "grammar" like - as if he is trying to impress you with big words and complex use of tenses/sentences.

Ola Johnson:
Wole Soyinka didn't start cultism on campuses. What he and six other friends founded was a fraternity which was recognized by UI, and even asked to provide security for the universi y's 21st anniversary in 1969. Forget what one of the magnificent seven, Emeritus Professor Muyiwa Awe is saying. On the discovery that some of the members in the 1960s were derailing, they were dismissed. They later formed cults (not fraternities) where they could do what PC denied them. All this made PC pull out of campuses, and came up with a new name, National Association of Seadogs. Read Soyinka's essay, "Descent of the Barbarian and the end of the Collegial" for more information about people that lie about being PC.

dayokanu:

Apparently the Nobel committee was impressed with Soyinkas verbosity and not so much with Ashebes lack of verbosity

ichidodo: SINCE YOU HAVE OPENED THE DOOR, LET US ENTER. WHO WAS THE FATHER OF CULTISM?

Sapphire@Yj:
This debate reminds me of the last Oscar awards. The Avengers, a blockbuster movie that made a lot money, didn't even get nominated for best picture; infact, it didn't even win any award! While other movies that didn't sell as much as it, won awards. The movie that won the best picture in last year's Oscar was the Artist, a movie many people would find boring!It won the award because of its deep substance. So a book that people find appealing and interesting is what will sell a lot of copies, hence the high sales record of 'Things Fall Apart'; while the author of a book with deep literary substance will always win the Nobel literary prize, hence Wole Soyinka's recognition. It takes an expert to see what a normal reader can not see.

nnenna.1:


Since when did the nobel prize cement someone's status?

Oya, Hitler and Al Gore are the epitome of peace since they won the Nobel peace prize.

caustical: List of Africans that have won Nobel laureate

Egypt

Mohamed El Baradei, Peace, 2005
Ahmed Zewail, Chemistry, 1999
Naguib Mahfouz, Literature, 1988
Anwar El Sadat, Peace, 1978

Ghana

Kofi Annan, Peace, 2001

Kenya

Wangari Maathai, Peace, 2004

Liberia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Peace, 2011
Leymah Gbowee, Peace, 2011

Nigeria

Wole Soyinka, Literature, 1986 (the genius)

South Africa

J. M. Coetzee, Literature, 2003
Sydney Brenner*, Physiology or Medicine, 2002
F.W. de Klerk, Peace, 1993
Nelson Mandela, Peace, 1993
Nadine Gordimer, Literature, 1991
Desmond Tutu, Peace, 1984
Allan M. Cormack*, Physiology or Medicine, 1979
Albert Lutuli, Peace, 1960
Max Theiler, Physiology or Medicine, 1951


Wole Soyinka the first african to win Nobel Laureate in literature and the only Nigerian up till date to ever do so no be mate with Achebe oooo.

caustical:

His work is not meant for people with low intelligence quotient

Tolexander: let me know what you understand about music in its real sense?

ichidodo: STORY,STORY.....STOOORRRY.

ichidodo: EHEN NOW? WHAT IS THE BUSINNESS OF THE LION (ACHEBE) WITH THE GOAT (SOYINKA). IF ANWAR SADAT,THE ANTI-SEMITIST CAN WIN NOBEL-PRIZE THEN THE SWEDISH CAN SHOVE IT UP THEIR #?*

Son-Of-El:
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.

ngozievergreen: And what does this man expect of well meaning individuals like me and those of Achebe's fans worldwide?
To start drinking palm oil with him?? God forbid.

Where Achebe's achievements reached, all his haters cannot even dream of. Nobel prize or not. He is still africa's foremost writer.
The man died achieving what he wants via literature.

ichidodo: STORY,STORY.....STOOORRRY.

bknight: Chinua Achebe wrote 'There Was A Country' abt a subject matter and told critics to go write theirs if they didn't like what he wrote.

Sam Omatseye has written his own opinion abt a subject matter, critics go and write ur own if you don't like his :p

No Love Lost
#Shikena!

nnenna.1:
Again, how does the heavy use of grammar connote substance?

bknight: Chinua Achebe wrote 'There Was A Country' abt a subject matter and told critics to go write theirs if they didn't like what he wrote.

Sam Omatseye has written his own opinion abt a subject matter, critics go and write ur own if you don't like his :p

No Love Lost
#Shikena!

Sapphire@Yj:
Try to read Soyinka's books, u will see that they are rich in literary sense. You will see creative use of figures of speech, a unique writing style, and a powerful content presentation. If you are not versed in literature, you won't see any of these important components of his work