Ola Johnson:
Nice question. The FG didn't even send a powerful delegation to receive his corpse in the Abuja airport. This is unlike the case of Wole Soyinka, inspite of his criticism of IBB, had a Nigerian delegation in a presidential boeing ariline jet to grace his winning the Nobel Prize in 1986.

django1: pls ibo guys what's the point of this thread is it to tell us that prof Achebe was a popular man?

Or is it to validate this statement:

“It is my impression that Awolowo was driven by an overriding ambition for power, for himself and for his Yoruba people. There is, on the surface at least, nothing wrong with those aspirations.

“However, Awolowo saw the dominant Igbo at the time as the obstacles to that goal, and when the opportunity arose – the Nigeria-Biafra War – his ambition drove him into a frenzy to go to every length to achieve his dreams.

“In the Biafran case, it meant hatching up a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation – eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

Obama might not give a hoot about the above quote but the "...yoruba people" here knows the dark hatred the man abhors for them and no matter how much you people make it won't change anything.

Achebe is a tribal bigot.

Does obama care about that? No!

Do yorubas who once respected him care about that? You can bet your flat heads that we damn well do!

django1: There shouldn't be a problem when we call him an unrepentant tribalist then, cos that's exactly who he was.

Son-Of-El:


shameless bigots. A heartless and corrupt leader receives WS in lavishing grandeur and you feel special about it. Very typical of your type. By the way, Achebe's family refused the FG to take credit and advantage of achebes burial, do you read the news at all? Gordimer honoured achebe, you ran mad, mandela honoured achebe, you had a heart attack. Now obama and his wife has honoured achebe and you want to pull your hair off. Jealous worm...pls die if you must.

Son-Of-El:


shurrup and make yourself useful elsewhere, 'cos on this thread you are useless.

Ojiofor: And what do u think or take Igbos for ,that IGBOS should be kissing the asses of principal actors of mass murderers?Achebe was not a politician,he called a spade a spade......period....and what he wrote is the same impression of every IGBO on Awo

Ola Johnson:
For not coming to the knowledge of the truth after much explanation, may your head be flatter than it already is.

Ojiofor: stop reasoning with ur anus..how prepared was Libya rebels against ghadafi and currently Syrian rebels as against their government?war has rules of engagement,u don't go about bombing market places,churches,refugee centers and hospitals in the name of war.

Son-Of-El:


lets just assume you don't know, and that you are willing and sincere to know.
Achebe brought a clear, original and unbiased understanding of africa to the world. He drew africa closer to the world. Africans have a rich culture, trade and commerce, defence, corrective and judiciary system, enduring system of govt, calendar system, religion, and values. Africans have strengths and flaws. Africans, like other races of humans, are simply and unapologetically human.

T8ksy:


Thank you for your civil response. Now can you tell me how Achebe drew us nigerians closer together, please.