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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by MrBiGGEST(m): 5:38pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:


You no get anything meaningful to do again?

Guy you be he goat
Hope you didn't trade your mom for an Unripe mango?

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:38pm On Apr 09, 2023
inoki247:
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I don't need to rebuff News where you ursef can't even post a Verifiable Link to back it up instead a Parody account from your kinsmen....


Imagine posting a Twitter link News and telling me to rebuff it is that a verifiable link....

Oga. It's simple

Was there a planned boycott or not.

Was Chinua Achebe not deserving?

Was Chinua Achebe an anti colonialist?

Did Prof Wole Soyinka write against colonialist or tried to be pro Western.

Was Ngungi shoved aside?

Was his student given a Nobel prize when he despite deserving it was shoved aside.


Prove these wrong.

No time

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:39pm On Apr 09, 2023
MrBiGGEST:

Hope you didn't trade your mom for an Unripe mango?

Bro if I start with you. You go ask who made you.
Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:40pm On Apr 09, 2023
HopeSpencer:



Hudeyamrin, go and die

Your tears are sweet.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by nairalanda1(m): 5:40pm On Apr 09, 2023
Dang, the bitterness on this thread is severe.

Personally, I don't give a hoot for LP, PDP or APC, and Tinubu should have retired along with Atiku. Also, I believe Achebe should have got the Nobel in 2000 instead of the Chinese author they gave it to self

But really, at the rate Obidients are going on this Soyinka matter, it is really really showing them as bitter and petty people.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:41pm On Apr 09, 2023
LegendHero:


What are in the claims to rebuff? No black African has the work to win the Nobel Laurate because they are not just good and universally acceptable as at then.

After Wole Soyinka won in 1986, an Egyptian in the name Naguib Mahfouz became the first North African to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1988 and it was Wole Soyinka that opened that path for Africa.

Achebe and etc are not just good enough and universally accepted to win the prize. The nonsense about betraying black people the parody Hundeyin laid on Wole Soyinka is baseless and useless.

How many black Africans have won the prize in literature until now? Are they still boycotting the Nobel award or why have they not won much after then?

See your life.

You condemn a whole continent.

How can you say that no African was good enough at that time.

Guy you be mumu.

This is what we are saying

Colonial slave like you

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by inoki247: 5:41pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:


Oga. It's simple

Was there a planned boycott or not.

Was Chinua Achebe not deserving?

Was Chinua Achebe an anti colonialist?

Did Prof Wole Soyinka write against colonialist or tried to be pro Western.

Was Ngungi shoved aside?

Was his student given a Nobel prize when he despite deserving it was shoved aside.


Prove these wrong.

No time



You can't tell me to be rebuffing a News made by Onyeka upload a reputable News platform Link to back it up....



What the different with what Onyeka is saying and Kanu that wakes up come online and tell us Buhari is Cloned without any verifiable evidence.....

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:42pm On Apr 09, 2023
nairalanda1:
Dang, the bitterness on this thread is severe.

Personally, I don't give a hoot for LP, PDP or APC, and Tinubu should have retired along with Atiku. Also, I believe Achebe should have got the Nobel in 2000 instead of the Chinese author they gave it to self

But really, at the rate Obidients are going on this Soyinka matter, it is really really showing them as bitter and petty people.

Yeah I know.

Apc are happy people.
Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:42pm On Apr 09, 2023
inoki247:




You can't tell me to be rebuffing a News made by Onyeka upload a reputable News platform Link to back it up....



What the different with what Onyeka is saying and Kanu that wakes up come online and tell us Buhari is Cloned without any verifiable evidence.....

Oga then go and never return

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by MrBiGGEST(m): 5:43pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:


Bro if I start with you. You go ask who made you.

cheesy 🤣...

Start wetin? I don't even know who tfvck you're 😂....
🤦🏾‍♂️🤌🏾
Òga start focusing on your life fess

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:44pm On Apr 09, 2023
MrBiGGEST:


cheesy 🤣...

Start wetin? I don't even know who tfvck you're 😂....
🤦🏾‍♂️🤌🏾
Òga start focusing on your life fess

You be my boy. I go leave you. Go outside and play.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by nairalanda1(m): 5:44pm On Apr 09, 2023
Creeper:
Lol, this is hilarious.

1. Abdulrazak Gurnah never made that statement.

2. This is what Ngugi wa Thiong'O said about Prof. Wole Soyinka:

“A writer and public intellectual, who has voiced his concerns over major happenings in different parts of the continent over the last fifty years and more, Soyinka has become the moral and democratic conscience of Africa”.
https://www.ayebia.co.uk/product/essays-in-honour-of-wole-soyinka-at-80/

3. When Black Orpheus was formed, no one knew it was a CIA project in their fight against communism, and it was just similar to all the American NGOs and Financial aids projects the US currently has in Nigeria (which are also CIA projects) - including the ones funding Rinu Oduala and Aisha Yesufu.

Rinu Oduala and Aisha Yesufu, the leaders of the Obidients project, are actually CIA babies hence they’re both in DC now. I saw a picture of Rinu in the White House last week - a picture worth a thousand words.

And Prof. Wole Soyinka wasn’t the only student who worked for Black Orpheus - Christopher Okigbo (arguably the most talented Igbo writer ever) was also part of the project.

I’m sorry, Igbos need to give up. Achebe just wasn’t talented enough to win the apex award in literature. And Chimamanda is pedestrian at best.

Soyinka won it due to his greatness and versatility. And he’s more anti-colonial than Achebe ever was and you can search YouTube for videos of what he said about British people.

Good points, but to be frank, Achebe was very talented enough to win it.

He even came close in 2000, but lost to a relatively little known Chinese author. (Not hating, but Achebe should have won it).

To be frank the Nobel Prize for lit is hit and run. (One year they even gave the singer Bob Dylan. Someone on the prize comittee was living his youth again, lol).

Chiamanda might win it in due time tho.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by nairalanda1(m): 5:46pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:


Yeah I know.

Apc are happy people.

You politicians should give it a rest.

At the end, if you want better government for Nigeria, start by realizing that even if Obi wins, there isn't much he can do. You still have to face your LG chairman, governor, commisioner, senator, who can do a lot more for you than anyone in Aso Rock.

You could even run for political position self.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by MrBiGGEST(m): 5:46pm On Apr 09, 2023
Lol cheesy grin
Yugoslavia247:


You be my boy. I go leave you. Go outside and play.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:47pm On Apr 09, 2023
nairalanda1:


You politicians should give it a rest.

At the end, if you want better government for Nigeria, start by realizing that even if Obi wins, there isn't much he can do. You still have to face your LG chairman, governor, commisioner, senator, who can do a lot more for you than anyone in Aso Rock.

You could even run for political position self.

Then let him win.

Don't use your negativity as an excuse.

A leader who is not morally bankrupt will do his best. And every body will know and see the dividend.

There is a whole lot he can do.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Christian36: 5:52pm On Apr 09, 2023
Olaoluwakiitan1:
Are you not going to far....y disgracing A yoruba great because of politics and obi....Must you all igbos cry and write with emotions😒😒 All your generations combine no fit tie Prof Shoe lace....Just STFU🥺
Abeg name what so special about Soyinka apart from winning noble prize. He won it once while Chimamanda won similar prize thrice and Igbos are not using her to insult others. Civilization is far from some of you.
Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by nairalanda1(m): 5:52pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:


Then let him win.

Don't use your negativity as an excuse.

A leader who is not morally bankrupt will do his best. And every body will know and see the dividend.

There is a whole lot he can do.

He won't provide water for your house, or build roads in your village, or see if there are schools, or other things...that's the job of the state and local assembly and government for the most part.

Also, Obi is not willing to take some hard decsions, like most Nigerian politicans.

Anyway, for me, him, tinubu and atiku are all alike. Maybe you should run for office, do a better job than Peter Obi and Bola Thief-nubu.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by jconsulting(f): 5:53pm On Apr 09, 2023
Hate can never get you to anywhere, Professor Soyinka has collected the award there is nothing you can do about it.

Haters and children of hypocrite, every time you criticise the west, but you patronize them , by using computers, cars and internet which is there brainchild, why not ride on horses and use your locally made inventions to spite the west .

Fools

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:55pm On Apr 09, 2023
nairalanda1:


He won't provide water for your house, or build roads in your village, or see if there are schools, or other things...that's the job of the state and local assembly and government for the most part.

Also, Obi is not willing to take some hard decsions, like most Nigerian politicans.

Anyway, for me, him, tinubu and atiku are all alike. Maybe you should run for office, do a better job than Peter Obi and Bola Thief-nubu.


He would do the best.

Leave a foundation for us.

We can't continue to say negative things.

Oga he will provide water, light, schools, stop oil theft.

Clean up the government ministry

Be accountable

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Emperormartin(m): 5:55pm On Apr 09, 2023
nairalanda1:
Dang, the bitterness on this thread is severe.

Personally, I don't give a hoot for LP, PDP or APC, and Tinubu should have retired along with Atiku. Also, I believe Achebe should have got the Nobel in 2000 instead of the Chinese author they gave it to self

But really, at the rate Obidients are going on this Soyinka matter, it is really really showing them as bitter and petty people.
He called them fascist when they were still writhing in pain about the just concluded election.

He shouldn't have done that

Even Tinubu will not call those that didn't supported him fascist
Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:56pm On Apr 09, 2023
jconsulting:
Hate can never get you to anywhere, Professor Soyinka has collected the award there is nothing you can do about it.

Haters and children of hypocrite, every time you criticise the west, but you patronize them , by using computers, cars and internet which is there brainchild, why not ride on horses and use your locally made inventions to spite the west .

Fools

Yeah he has collected it.

Why can't he stay on his lane.

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 5:58pm On Apr 09, 2023
Emperormartin:

He called them fascist when they were still writhing in pain about the just concluded election.

He shouldn't have done that

Even Tinubu will not call those that didn't supported him fascist

Thank you.

No politician even as insane as Adamu Garba and Bashir amhad is they never used it.

Why will a renowned and learned prof use it.

Infact as a student of government it is even misuse of word.

Benito Mussolini is just an example of fascist.
Fascism really is more theoretical than practical just like communism.

However we have society that have close similarities to them

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by husbandsnatcha(f): 6:01pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:



Bro until you bring a rebuttal this is nothing but the truth.

No whitewashing.

If you investigate this thoroughly then you will see that the evidences are so glaring.

The Royal academy discriminated against Africans.

That is why I love Chinua Achebe. He deserved it but due to his die hard anti colonialist tendencies they shaved him off.

Not only him but others.

At a point Wole Soyinka said Achebe was jealous.

Nah he was raged because you betrayed African writers
during my young age around 1987 I found out great James ngugi of Kenya hated wole Soyinka . I saw him many times with Achehe and Camara laye but Soyinka is an odd man out.... Was it why they hated him ? After 35yrs I am finding this out .

This is how we planned to chase out bad government but yorubas betrayed us with tribalism .
An age long history stated no tribe mingle in war solidarity with them , for fear of betrayal which is wisdom to them from ancestors pass down to children ...so mysterious hmmmmmm

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by nairalanda1(m): 6:03pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:



He would do the best.

Leave a foundation for us.

We can't continue to say negative things.

Oga he will provide water, light, schools, stop oil theft.

Clean up the government ministry

Be accountable

Water is for your state government, not Aso Rock

Light...until you Nigerians are ready to pay a deregulated price, and stop chasing DISCO workers from their jobs, we won't have light.

Schools...again, either we pay higher fees, or higher taxes, or we keep pretending that we can have world class at one tenth the price.

Oil thefit....the communites have to realize it is wrong.

Clean up memene? Anambra, does it run clean government ?

better economy...we better remove subsides, stop practicing socialism, and we may get a better economy.
Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 6:03pm On Apr 09, 2023
husbandsnatcha:
during my young age around 1987 I found out great James ngugi of Kenya hated wole Soyinka . I saw him many times with Achehe and Camara laye but Soyinka is an odd man out.... Was it why they hated him ? After 35yrs I am finding this out .

This is how we planned to chase out bad government but yorubas betrayed us with tribalism .
An age long history stated no tribe mingle in war solidarity with them , for fear of betrayal which is wisdom to them from ancestors pass down to children ...so mysterious hmmmmmm

Is good to know that you have a real life experience.

I am waiting for them to rebuff me. They just dey attack me
Thank you

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by lecowas: 6:04pm On Apr 09, 2023
Obedients and their tantrums na like 5 & 6. The west will see them for who they really are and they will definitely lose the little support they have from there. Bitter souls!

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 6:04pm On Apr 09, 2023
nairalanda1:


Water is for your state government, not Aso Rock

Light...until you Nigerians are ready to pay a deregulated price, and stop chasing DISCO workers from their jobs, we won't have light.

Schools...again, either we pay higher fees, or higher taxes, or we keep pretending that we can have world class at one tenth the price.

Oil thefit....the communites have to realize it is wrong.

Clean up memene? Anambra, does it run clean government ?

better economy...we better remove subsides, stop practicing socialism, and we may get a better economy.

Hello.

If you have a covenant of backwardness with any deity let me know.

For me. He will do it.

You must first live a clean life to build a clean society

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by haffaze777(m): 6:05pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:


Sorry brother Ode.

Olodo
Itibokum


Continue crying

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Godwin4444: 6:06pm On Apr 09, 2023
Yugoslavia247:


Bring up rebuttals.

Not emotions.

Good bye.

I need clarifications too
soyinka is d next victim of d igbos now

Only God knows who’s next
Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by husbandsnatcha(f): 6:06pm On Apr 09, 2023
MrBiGGEST:
Òmò you guys are becoming very irritating this day's 😒

undecided

All becus he did not follow the Obi's bandwagon?

"Wole Soyinka is an African pride" most especially Nigeria.
Knw this and know peace
No he wasn't James ngugi of Kenya ,Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia , flora nwapa , Chinua Achebe, kamara laye of guinea all banished him from Honourable leagues of African writers . These guys knew him more than us ,
I saw many gatherings of African writers but woke is always missing that's y he has to colour his beard white to disguise like a true professor he wasn't .

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Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by oskopy: 6:07pm On Apr 09, 2023
Distraction from enemies camp, I jump and pass
Re: Did Wole Soyinka Betray Other Africans Just To Get The Nobel Price. by Yugoslavia247(m): 6:08pm On Apr 09, 2023
Godwin4444:
soyinka is d next victim of d igbos now

Only God knows who’s next

Oga you are a tribal bigot.

Debunk the claims

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