ACM10: Afam, respect yourself and don't hide my comment again

Saint Chukz: Please what are you all about ? Because it seems from your posts you are not nigerian, so what's your stake in this discussion..? And just an observation too you sound childish also by your posts...

Ola Johnson: Chinua Achebe rejected the title but some Igbo are here forcing it on him even after his death. This is what is happening in Igboland where when a person walks, a group of old men with red caps give him the title of Onye Na Gaga 1, a buys a car first he gets the title of Onye Puzo Zu Motor 1, etc. Hope the family of Chinua Achebe won't be sent to the EVIL FOREST for rejecting the title.

babyosisi:

He made African literature popular and respected
Fiction or no fiction
African literature became a staple in USA schools due to Achebe and his things fall apart
That is the point
Your attempt to belittle fiction is laughable
I hope you know most classics that have stood the test of time by authors like Shakespeare,Mark Twain and George Orwell are fiction and the most widely sold book by an African ( things fall apart) also happens to be fiction so Chinua is in excellent company.
I smell ignorance all through your post.

Tanx bro, for putting some of this intellectual embezzle thru. Hw on earth can somebody argue the fact that chinua is FATHER of africa literature. Mctheeeeew.na de reason y them give bokoko amnesty.

Secondly I am tired of educating some of you ,it is annoying to read folks parrot what they hear others say without checking out the facts for themselves
Chinua's most popular book was fiction
But he has to his credit several non fictional books
He is your countryman celebrated the world over,others shouldn't know more about him and his works more than you do
If only the cloak of tribalism will let you.

Aigbofa:

The man said he didn't want it, and some are here working overtime to pin it on him! A beg, what is the meaning of Onye Na Gaga and Onye Puzo zu Motor 1?

oily+Yoruba:
I must state here, with heavy regret that Prof. Wole Soyinka disappointed some of his staunchest allies/followers (which I'm part of) when he said "Prof. Achebe shouldn't have written his last book". Does the erstwhile able Prof. Soyinka want history and the truth to be silenced/concealed? Why is he suddenly against the truth which is documented in the book called "there was a country"?

Let me state here also, following in the foot-steps of Wole Soyinka that: he (Soyinka) shouldn't have been against the truth . What a shame!

Ola Johnson:
The older a professor, the more learned he is. Do you know that when Chinua Achebe was Wole Soyinka's age he was already using wheelchair whereas Soyinka still walks miles on protest matches. Who between the two is age having/had negative impact on?

all4naija: It proves she is a South African and she is trying to defend the right thing about Mandela you guys are dragging into this matter.

Saint Chukz: You are one of the reasons that makes reading here very disstateful. Its very disrespectful to have opined the above. You can be a better person if you want to, rather than drag yourself into the gutter over two people that can be regarded to as very accomplished in their chosen respective fields.

patrick89: This is a very intelligent response! But then I don't see anything wrong in making achebe the father of African literature he deserves it, owing to the fact that he popularized African literature through his work, I have few questions here to ask who is the Queen of nollywood? Who is the father of nollywood? what criteria were used in given them the title? Now let me chip in one thing more, those so called *first to do that and do this in Nigeria how did they get to be the first? He(soyinka) clearly stated that in the field like this, even in the music industry there must be this kind of tussle, so Achebe is the father of literature and so what? He is a "storyteller" he (soyinka)used there to me is absurd! I rest my case here

X-factoria:
I hope those folks from the South-Eastern part of the country, who are constantly and desperately in search of a hero, would understand this and save us all the embarrassment and the noise they make.

First, they tried to make a cowardly Ojukwu a hero, then Chinua Achebe. Maybe their heroes are still in the womb and for God's sake, no one would scold them if they don't have one.

babyosisi:


Fame!
Who made it famous
That is the father

Read on



The highlighted part above can be said of Chinua Achebe
In his lifetime he was and still is Africa's most famous literary icon and has sold more books than any African author dead or alive
That is what makes him the father of African literature
I don't know why you tribalists are so pained by that
The world including fellow African writers,Nobel laureates like Gordimer( an African),Europeans,Americans and Asians describe him by that title and the only people that cry about it are a handful of Nigerians from the Yoruba tribe?
You are greatly outnumbered here
All boils down to jealousy folks
I am disappointed that WS would descend this low

Ola Johnson: Peole from the SE it is high time you said, Chinua Achebe, REST IN PEACE. And stop this unnecessary effort of yours at making him what he knew he wasn't hence his rejecting it.

Iykeponti: We all know dat chief Wole Soyinka deserves some credit.... & we Igbos respect him a lot, we love happening pple like him, dats why we succeed wherever we found ourselves.... There r things u guys can learn from us,same from us... Pls dont mind my grammer my mother is not from Britain :/ when u love goodthings,gudthings will get you in one way or d other.... CHINUA IS A GREAT FATHER LIKEWISE WOLE...