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Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said he was disappointed by a comment made by the late renowned novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, shortly after he (Soyinka) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

Responding, Soyinka said, “The subject was not even literature when he (Achebe) made that statement and so I was disappointed that he created a nexus between my normal sociopolitical life and my normal way of articulating an opinion.

“It was almost like because I won the Nobel Prize, I have no right to offer, to do what I used to do before all my life. I responded to it, even though I wanted to make light of it. I was a little bit disappointed and I didn’t see the necessity;
that particular subject, which was under contention, didn’t relate to literature. So, it was like, oh, am I now to carry this burden for the rest of my life? That people will think I am doing what I used to do before simply because I now have a Nobel Prize.”

 “Everybody feels they have a right to pronounce authoritatively, not only on the products but on the producers of the products and their positions in society,” he said.

The playwright said he would never speak about the works of other professionals, such as architects, musicians, doctors, lawyers. etc, the way people “pontificate on literature.”

Earlier, when asked what his experience had been after winning the Nobel prize, Soyinka said, “It has bred demands, expectations; it has bred even envy in some areas – one can cope with that – antagonism where totally unnecessary, uncalled for. But that’s part of human life; any kind of achievement does that.”

Oga shut up face front and eat your money

Na today the thing happen?

Bh

Nonsensical Nobel Prize!!!

Achebe statement was wrong but you guys were all literary giants then.Kongi please forgive it and let it be.

Hmm

Dedetwo:
Nonsensical Nobel Prize!!!

As any of your lineage or ancestors, hero dead or alive ever have Nobel Prize?/

Product of wasted sperm and unplanned pregnant

Gforce2015:


As any of your lineage or ancestors, hero dead or alive ever have Nobel Prize?/

Product of wasted sperm and unplanned pregnant

that uncalled for but unfortunately he deserves it

AFONJAS and their complaints!


I have never seen



ALWAYS NAGGING

What did Achebe say

mtchewwwww