Ecstasy154:



https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-tinubu-names-abuja-expressway-after-chinua-achebe/

dododawa1:
He wrote: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Commissions the M18 road infrastructure in Guzape District of Abuja. Names road after Nigerian Novelist and Poet, late Professor Chinua Achebe.”
Wetin OBIDENTs want again
Tinubu will give them.

Ogonimilitant:
18Metre Road. What a wikedness and hatrade for the Igbos.

TimeManager:
Obidients would be confused right now, some will praise him, some will still insult him, some will look back at what they said when he honoured Wole Soyinka and feel stupid.

-Kiss the truth!

aylagos:
A noble and respected Man from Nigeria.....A man your family and your next 10 generation can not produce. Born throway fellow

Thormentor:

Someone bigger than your Grandfather someone nobody in your past generation can lace his shoes and someone nobody in your future generation Will get to his level

EcoNews:
Cowards n Pandora Criminal do not have mandates

AmazingELixir:


But they celebrate the terrorist MNK and his murderous ipob/ESN cannibals that oppress, kill and eat their people all in the name of self actualization.

What a joke.

raskymonojendor:
That's good news. The two men now have roads named after them in Abuja.

Localemperor:
Does the North have a person both living or dead that could match Achebe and Soyinka?

Melagros:
COMRADES are speechless at this high level of hypocrisy
After stealing our mandate

bdon12:

If dem check 3square meals dey hard u

Thormentor:

Someone bigger than your Grandfather someone nobody in your past generation can lace his shoes and someone nobody in your future generation Will get to his level

ElevationD:



Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist who is best known for his novel "Things Fall Apart," which is a modern African masterpiece and was published in 1958 ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵. His other works include the following novels ¹ ² ³ ⁵:


- "No Longer at Ease" (1960)
- "Arrow of God" (1964)
- "A Man of the People" (1966)
- "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987)
- "Home and Exile" (2000)
And Things fall Apart.


Born in 1930 in Ogidi, Colonial Nigeria, Achebe's childhood was influenced by both Igbo traditional culture and postcolonial Christianity. He excelled in school and attended what is now the University of Ibadan, where he became fiercely critical of how Western literature depicted Africa. Moving to Lagos after graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and garnered international attention for his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart. In less than 10 years he would publish four further novels through the publisher Heinemann, with whom he began the Heinemann African Writers Series and galvanized the careers of African writers, such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Flora Nwapa.
Achebe sought to escape the colonial perspective that framed African literature at the time, and drew from the traditions of the Igbo people, Christian influences, and the clash of Western and African values to create a uniquely African voice. He wrote in and defended the use of English, describing it as a means to reach a broad audience, particularly readers of colonial nations. In 1975 he gave a controversial lecture, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", which was a landmark in postcolonial discourse. Published in The Massachusetts Review, it featured criticism of Albert Schweitzer and Joseph Conrad, whom Achebe described as "a thoroughgoing racist." When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe supported Biafran independence and acted as ambassador for the people of the movement. The subsequent Nigerian Civil War ravaged the populace, and he appealed to the people of Europe and the Americas for aid. When the Nigerian government retook the region in 1970, he involved himself in political parties but soon became disillusioned by his frustration over the continuous corruption and elitism he witnessed. He lived in the United States for several years in the 1970s, and returned to the US in 1990 after a car crash left him partially paralyzed. He stayed in the US in a nineteen-year tenure at Bard College as a professor of languages and literature.
Winning the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, from 2009 until his death he was Professor of African Studies at Brown University. Achebe's work has been extensively analyzed and a vast body of scholarly work discussing it has arisen. In addition to his seminal novels, Achebe's oeuvre includes numerous short stories, poetry, essays and children's books. A titled Igbo chief himself, his style relies heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory. Among the many themes his works cover are culture and colonialism, masculinity and femininity, politics, and history. His legacy is celebrated annually at the Chinua Achebe Literary Festival.

Chinua Achebe was and baptised Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe. His father, Isaiah Okafo Achebe, was a teacher and evangelist, and his mother, Janet Anaenechi Iloegbunam, was the daughter of a blacksmith from Awka, a leader among church women, and a vegetable farmer.His birthplace was Saint Simon's Church, Nneobi, which was near the Igbo village of Ogidi; the area was part of the British colony of Nigeria at the time. Isaiah was the nephew of Udoh Osinyi, a leader in Ogidi with a "reputation for tolerance"; orphaned as a young man, Isaiah was an early Ogidi convert to Christianity. Both Isaiah and Janet stood at a crossroads of traditional culture and Christian influence, which made a significant impact on the children, especially Chinua. His parents were converts to the Protestant Church Mission Society (CMS) in Nigeria. As such, Isaiah stopped practising Odinani, the religious practices of his ancestors, but continued to respect its traditions. The Achebe family had five other surviving children, named in a fusion of traditional words relating to their new religion: Frank Okwuofu, John Chukwuemeka Ifeanyichukwu, Zinobia Uzoma, Augustine Ndubisi, and Grace Nwanneka. After the youngest daughter was born, the family moved to Isaiah Achebe's ancestral town of Ogidi, in what is now the state of Anambra state.

Now, who are your parents? Put on their profile, if you can. Who are you? Achebe died at the age of 83, accomplished. You are a non starter, with no certainty that you can be better than either a goat or a pig, how much more a cow.

Thormentor:

Someone bigger than your Grandfather someone nobody in your past generation can lace his shoes and someone nobody in your future generation Will get to his level

Bluntemperor:


They don't know what they want, even LP!
Chinua Achebe was a great Poet no doubt but amongst the South Eastern States,how many honoured him while alive and even in death?
Kiss the TRUTH.
Before now,they want Kanu but they have shifted to Obi !
Ok,na so we they learn .

raskymonojendor:
That's good news. The two men now have roads named after them in Abuja.

aylagos:
A noble and respected Man from Nigeria.....A man your family and your next 10 generation can not produce. Who are your parents? Born throway fellow.

Emekaonline:


Which fake mandates?? Hahahah. We are waiting for you all in 2027. May God spare our lives. We will let you know that no one has ever benefited from God through hatred as you guys are doing.