OasisX:




Ẹ̀gbọ́n ń lá ti já de tán.

Ibukzy:
See Crv wife papa handwork for Kogi state

User09:


Interestingly, this was the post that started the comparison.

Didnt see the need for it. And now the whole thread has gone into an unending debate about who's better with some intentions more obvious than others

Emaprince:
I am affected by this too.

DeadPresidents:


Early ibime rapped like a Big L clone then his style evolved to a lot of Canibus/Jay Electronica.

larride:


Yes. It is.

ShaqFu:
Now this reminds me of you way back in 2014/15. 😁😁😁

OasisX:


LOL

GrammarNazi1:


Achebe and his lovers may create an award for him, but since a long time the Nobel Prize has been the greatest literary award no matter your opinion!

Even the fine details you talk about, you do not know the fine details as much as the judges of the Nobel Prize academy.

So, calm down and make extensive research about the criteria used to choose Nobel Prize winners in Literature.

airmark:


I saw a video of Datti on Channels TV crying because of attacks on his family on social media. Tinubu is supposed to have been drowned in his own tears by now.

Ibime:


Let's be honest, it's a lower form of skill. Just because Oyinbo give awards to it, doesn't mean we will rate it over what we know is possible

airmark:


I saw a video of Datti on Channels TV crying because of attacks on his family on social media. Tinubu is supposed to have been drowned in his own tears by now.

raumdeuter:


So what is the solution given the total condemnation for RUGA by almost every state

airmark:
OasisX, Larride, una dodge a bullet in Lagos.

https://twitter.com/AmodaOgunlere/status/1644308927205580800?t=B0i8CU_o4Boao1rtMVMqGQ&s=19

DissTroy:


You're still hovering around the issue and refusing to perch on it.

The post you quoted was of me inserting a link to the Nobel Prize website stating it doesn't reveal the criteria for awarding the Literature prize. It's on the website!

It went on to state a small committee of the Swedish Academy decides who gets shortlisted and wins, and their decision isn't subject to change.

That clause or caveat, if you like, corroborates my stance that the many of the categories are awarded subjectively since there are no benchmarks.

If Soyinka had been awarded for his activism against military rule and oppression, that'd be defined. But for literature, no criteria is defined or even stated to begin with.

DeadPresidents:


I prefer the Achebe vs Soyinka debate tbh.

Emaprince:
But same Tinubu said he avoids social media cos they abuse the hell out of him.

Why is he running from social media with his heart of stone?

larride:
Because they want to make huge profit, we should allow them to continue to do open grazing, trespassing on peoples land, destroying their farm and means of livelihood and even going as far as killing these farmers.

Shey na simulation Dey happen this night? 😡

Theflint1:
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most influential writer in Nigeria's history, practically everyone grew up reading and still read Achebe. His stories were not just interesting, they were incredibly funny and descriptive to the point where you felt like you were right in the story, one of those writers that if you picked their work, just know you'd not drop it until you've read it to the very last word. I probably read A Man of the People like 30 times, the funniest book I ever read and my favourite of all his stories.

Wole Soyinka's style is very technical and I'm sure that's why his appeal was never close to Achebe's despite being a fantastic writer. If he never won the Nobel Prize, I believe nobody go really send e book for Naija like that. I sought his books out mainly cause I knew he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his writings, so naturally assumed they held value...I found them painfully boring though. Abiku was beautiful, read it in SS1 Literature where they compared his version of Abiku to J. P. Clarks'....I preferred Wole Soyinka's Abiku.

Both stars in their own right, although I think without the Nobel Prize, Wole Soyinka's works in literature would long have quietly slipped into obscurity. Chinua Achebe didn't need a Nobel Prize or any other award for that matter to forever have his place in our hearts and heads.

Theflint1:
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most influential writer in Nigeria's history, practically everyone grew up reading and still read Achebe. His stories were not just interesting, they were incredibly funny and descriptive to the point where you felt like you were right in the story, one of those writers that if you picked their work, just know you'd not drop it until you've read it to the very last word. I probably read A Man of the People like 30 times, the funniest book I ever read and my favourite of all his stories.

Wole Soyinka's style is very technical and I'm sure that's why his appeal was never close to Achebe's despite being a fantastic writer. I'm sure if he never won the Nobel Prize, nobody go really send e book for Naija like that. I sought his books out mainly cause I knew he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his writings, so naturally assumed they held value...I found them painfully boring though. Abiku was beautiful, read it in SS1 Literature where they compared his version of Abiku to J. P. Clarks'.

Both stars in their own right, although I think without the Nobel Prize, Wole Soyinka's works in literature would long have quietly slipped into obscurity. Chinua Achebe didn't need a Nobel Prize or any other award for that matter to forever have his place in our hearts and heads.

Theflint1:
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most influential writer in Nigeria's history, practically everyone grew up reading and still read Achebe. His stories were not just interesting, they were incredibly funny and descriptive to the point where you felt like you were right in the story, one of those writers that if you picked their work, just know you'd not drop it until you've read it to the very last word. I probably read A Man of the People like 30 times, the funniest book I ever read and my favourite of all his stories.

Wole Soyinka's style is very technical and I'm sure that's why his appeal was never close to Achebe's despite being a fantastic writer. If he never won the Nobel Prize,I believe nobody go really send e book for Naija like that. I sought his books out mainly cause I knew he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his writings, so naturally assumed they held value...I found them painfully boring though. Abiku was beautiful, read it in SS1 Literature where they compared his version of Abiku to J. P. Clarks'....I preferred Wole Soyinka's Abiku.

Both stars in their own right, but I think without the Nobel Prize, Wole Soyinka's works in literature would have long slipped into obscurity, quietly too. Chinua Achebe didn't need a Nobel Prize or any other award for that matter to forever have his place in our hearts and heads.

Theflint1:
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most influential writer in Nigeria's history, practically everyone grew up reading and still read Achebe. His stories were not just interesting, they were incredibly funny and descriptive to the point where you felt like you were right in the story, one of those writers that if you picked their work, just know you'd not drop it until you've read it to the very last word. I probably read A Man of the People like 30 times, the funniest book I ever read and my favourite of all his stories.

Wole Soyinka's style is very technical and I'm sure that's why his appeal was never close to Achebe's despite being a fantastic writer. I'm sure if he never won the Nobel Prize, nobody go really send e book for Naija like that. I sought his books out mainly cause I knew he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his writings, so naturally assumed they held value...I found them painfully boring though. Abiku was beautiful, read it in SS1 Literature where they compared his version of Abiku to J. P. Clarks'.

Both stars in their own right, although I think without the Nobel Prize, Wole Soyinka's works in literature would long have quietly slipped into obscurity.

airmark:
Oasis, Larride, una dodge a bullet in Lagos.

https://twitter.com/AmodaOgunlere/status/1644308927205580800?t=B0i8CU_o4Boao1rtMVMqGQ&s=19

A001:

Lols, all these shallow Nl arguments. I think without the goals, Messi is just another Ahmed Musa.

Nairaland arguments na comic relief. What made WS win the nobel prize in the first place if not for his works in literature that you said would long have quietly slipped into obscurity?

Those silly obidients just dey waste their time castigating WS on social media.

A001:

Lols, all these shallow Nl arguments. I think without the goals, Messi is just another Ahmed Musa.

Nairaland arguments na comic relief. What made WS win the nobel prize in the first place if not for his works in literature that you said would long have quietly slipped into obscurity?

Those silly obidients just dey waste their time castigating WS on social media.

He has successfully written his name on the sands of time. No amount of social media noise will erase that.

Everyone doesn't have to support your candidate.

When all the social media noises die down, Soyinka will still be the first winner of nobel prize in literature in Africa, a recipient of the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) award, among other prestigious awards.

Amoto94:

Go and observe Qiyamul layl and leave ahl siyasah alone

airmark:


Just say his lines most times, fly over your head. Then, we will understand.