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Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by nzechu(m): 12:20pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
9jaBloke:u nailed it 100 percent, end of discussion 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by ArchAngelos999: 12:22pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Esseite: was it WS that took the matter to SM? complex psychology for a 45 min flight seat. you think the prof doesn't have more important things to think about |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Ishilove: 12:23pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Esseite:This one did not read the article |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by ArchAngelos999: 12:23pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
SarkinYarki: how please |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Ishilove: 12:23pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
9jaBloke:I concur 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by musicwriter(m): 12:25pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
The seat owner had a right- that is enforceable. But the elder though he or she is entitled to some deference and respect, can only hope for it. In this case it was not given and WS, unhesitatingly moved seat. That's what the white man has convinced us today. But in an unpolluted traditional African setting, Sonyinka (the elder) would have won the seat by popular opinion. To the online outraged, I would point out that those who like to see an elder given his due deference are entirely within their rights to judge the man. And if they decide to add some profiling (the t-shirt, tattoo, face cap), please just ''chop it''! He passed up a small opportunity to bestow an act of kindness, and commentators happily pointed out his emblems of youthful disregard for convention. After all, he had just disregarded a convention that many hold dear. Once Europeans came along and destroyed African societies and imposed English language and western education on us, those conventions did not evolve into tangible legal codes because we began thinking in English, and thus, destroyed ourselves. Values are created by language, education, spirituality (religion). When a foreigner imposes these three on you, your society would go on and destroy themselves. The values you're talking about has already been destroyed by English language that Soyinka is helping us to learn. Extending courtesies based upon age such as offering your seat in a crowded bus or lifting a heavy bag is not just a matter of convention or kindness but common sense. Like above, it wasn't just a convention in an unpolluted African setting but a legal code. When I was young, my mother once beat me for not greeting an elderly man that came to our house. People still do that today but even that would eventually die. In an unpolluted African setting, if Soyinka owned a farm, people would go work and tend the farm for him for FREE!. But all that has been destroyed. In an unpolluted African setting, its an ''un-sayable'' sentence to ask an elderly person to get up from his/her seat. So, even if you have it in mind but you won't be able to say that to an adult. This's how language create values, ideals. If they were talking in our native language, it would have been impossible for the young man to muster the courage to say that to an adult. But we can freely do so in English. These values, ideals has been destroyed by our new thinking in English, so stop crying. We Africans today, now have experiences that don't belong to us but to those that gave us language, education, religion. You can't eat your cake and have it!!. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Jibsonified(m): 12:55pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
9jaBloke: BEST COMMENT SO FAR. You said it all 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by DelilahMakinde(f): 12:57pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
datigbogirl: No need for lewd language...oniranu 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by bobntu: 12:59pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Whatever divide you are on this matter, isn't it worrisome that no one has wondered why Tonye Cole could not give up his own window seat 1A (on the same row) and swap with the eminent Prof? |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by datigbogirl: 1:00pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
DelilahMakinde: You sef like am oloshoe... with you fat buttocks like Teni makanaki ![]() |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by DelilahMakinde(f): 1:08pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
datigbogirl: Ogun fire u...Teni mama kor...Teni shapeless nii. |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by BuddhaPalm(m): 1:15pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
All this grammar. If you want window seat, book window seat. I am the biggest Soyinka fan and will probably would have let him have mine. But, there should be zero expectation for anyone to leave him theirs. |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by BuddhaPalm(m): 1:20pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
DelilahMakinde: Jesus Christ... Who is that person on your profile? My ATM pin is 1237. Please tell me where to send it, along with my cheque book. A+ for using lewd. |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by datigbogirl: 1:34pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
DelilahMakinde: Sopanna riddle your ass with smallpox like bullets... ![]() |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Sunsets: 1:42pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Who has the luxury of time to read this unnecessary epistle? He has not even spoken to WS but is writing presumptuously. We don forget the mata abegi! Soyinka don trend, pikin too wan trend Larryomooba: |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by okenwa216(m): 1:42pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Esseite:You are worse than the young man that asked WS to vacate his seat. How can you call an old man above his 50s young lad. You have no respect 1 Like 2 Shares |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by hevisegs: 1:55pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Esseite:Did U read the letter at all. Am humbled by this letter he wrote. U are still vomiting rubbish. My father is an academics and he is not as old as WS but he sometimes seats on a wrong seat. so why are "yarning...tranga" Dumb people everywhere. U were not even born when democracy was trampled upon. sad things the young people post nowadays. Yeye Dey Smell |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Bimpe29: 3:22pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Respect is reciprocal. |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Amuocha: 3:34pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Useless anti-thesis |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by zealadjay(m): 3:46pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
To think i was gonna read d article
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Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Nobody: 4:05pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
ossyla: Calm down bro, I'm the victim here |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Nobody: 4:11pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Angelfrost: I dinor even see the dp, hmmmmn I'll take a leap of faith I'm more willing now than ever. ![]() ![]() 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by 9jaBloke: 5:36pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
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Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by goaldynboy: 7:06pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Who is this his jobless son writing this epistle?! So everyone should worship your father because he cowardly ran away from Nigeria during Abacha regime?! He should explain to us how going to exile abroad is automatically the same as fighting for freedom! Your father's Exile is no different from millions of Nigerians presently trooping out of the country because of economic hardship caused by Buhari and APC! The only set of people that needs our commendation are those Nigerians such as Gani Fawehnmi that were courageous to remain within Nigeria to confront Abacha!! |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Nobody: 9:23pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Lucid1: Don't tell me you fell for her scam internet photo. The girl in that photo is nowhere near the shores of Africa. |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Khaleell001(m): 10:32pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
safarigirl: I read Freeze's reaction and I can bet my left balls that your mention is just s similar message with changes in words and style of presentation. We not arguing about national ethics or any of those diversionary tactics you use when any arguments comes up. We should stick to the topic not some false equivalence strategy we resort to bring our points when it has failed in delivering it's points. We have a culture in Africa and I think it is everywhere, and this attitude of the current generation of claiming right is gradually ruining many of you my dear. The more I see quotes like yours promoting vice as over virtue I weep inside. You all need to check yourself. Today's youth is tomorrowvs elder. know that everything that seems right is not always moral. whereas morality should be our gauge for knowing what is right from wrong and many of you have lost this gauge . Remember that you are throwing stones at an elder which can be counted in the name of "rights" but also know that karma is a female dog(apologies to Ali Baba) waiting to do the deal. PS: Can you show us a proof where the young man said he has a medical condition that necessitated using the window seat? Please, I need proof not some road side populist view spread ignoramuses and believed by fools. |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by dinomcjohn: 10:57pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Fantastic writeup by Soyinka's son. Where have we throne our African values? |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by dinomcjohn: 11:05pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Thrown 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by Nobody: 11:40pm On Jun 27, 2019 |
Khaleell001:Normally I don't reply. I don't speak Fulani. But for the sake of humanity I will this one time. I feel sorry for you. So very sorry. Go sit down and think it in deeply. Good luck in your endeavors. Argue with your phone |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by olatilldend: 5:17am On Jun 28, 2019 |
Khaleell001: Are you saying safarigirl plagiarized?? ![]() ![]() ![]() My brother, a lot of Nigerian youth are like what you just surmised up there. No regard whatsoever for elders, little wonder we are morally bankrupt as it were. Dem forget sey what goes around comes around. Na so America take start, my right, my right. . . Chicago is presently referred to as Chiraq. The killing rate there is probably more than what obtains in a war zone. Abeg ignore this one you are asking to provide proof cos she definitely has no idea what she's on about. She'll simply come up with another jaundiced argument. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Olaokun Soyinka Writes Tonye Cole Over Airplane Seat Saga Of Wole Soyinka by booksrite(f): 2:07pm On Jun 28, 2019 |
Are you saying safarigirl plagiarized?? My brother, a lot of Nigerian youth are like what you just surmised up there. No regard whatsoever for elders, little wonder we are morally bankrupt as it were.Dem forget sey what goes around comes around. Na so America take start, my right, my right. . . Chicago is presently referred to as Chiraq.The killing rate there is probably more than what obtains in a war zone.Abeg ignore this one you are asking to provide proof cos she definitely has no idea what she's on about. She'll simply come up with another jaundiced argument. ![]() |
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