arsetalks:
Let's do this. Shall we?

Who is Wole Soyinka?

His full names are : Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka

His honours :

1973: Honorary PhD, University of Leeds
1973–74: Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
1983: Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[38]
1983: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, United States.
1986: Nobel Prize for Literature
1986: Agip Prize for Literature
1986: Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR.
1990: Benson Medal from Royal Society of Literature
1993: Honorary doctorate, Harvard University
2002: Honorary fellowship, SOAS[39]
2005: Honorary doctorate degree, Princeton University.[40]
2005: Conferred with the chieftaincy title of the Akinlatun of Egbaland by the Oba Alake of the Egba clan of Yorubaland. He was made a tribal aristocrat with the right to use the Yoruba title Oloye.[41]
2009: Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award
2013, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lifetime Achievement, United States.[42]

Now tell me who is GEJ?

ilugunboy :
All this Prof analogy is just way too complex for GEJ to understand....

Just compare him with Abacha and he will undertand....

tarryT:
......and Soyinka can be likened to... a common cultist.

Fridelly:


I careless about your pompocity. Not all brains contain cells.

OLADD:
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The Prof is increasingly becoming more foolish and clownish these days probably as a result of old age That was how he pushed MKO Abiola to his death through unguided utterances thinking he can speak English more than the British. In his usual empty-barrel characteristic this man vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable if Abiola died in detention. Abiola indeed died but our saintly Prof could not do jack! No doubt, Soyinka is living in his past glory. Sowing seed of discord and pitching the masses against the authority while criticising any sitting govt is unbecoming of his personality. Why is he closing his eyes from the atrocity of a sitting speaker who brazenly stepped the law on the face by attempting to make the minority rule over the majority in the legislative House? Did Soyinka see any aberration in our lawmakers scaling the fence of the National Assembly in an apparent show of ignominy? Has the Prof ever criticised the opposition for the series of provocative and crisis-breeding statements emanating from their camps on daily basis? Is the Prof living in a different world by pretending not to see glaring imperialism and oppressions taking place in the opposition controlled States? When Oshiomole asked a widow "to go and die", was he in the country? When Fashola forcefully displaced the Makoko people from a place they had lived for more than 100 years with little or no compensation, was Soyinka dead at that time? When many opposition members were sent to their premature grave in Ekiti in the buildup to the guber election, did the Prof cry fowl? The world was too swift in giving Prof Soyinka a novel Laurette.

OLADD:
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The Prof is increasingly becoming more foolish and clownish these days probably as a result of old age That was how he pushed MKO Abiola to his death through unguided utterances thinking he can speak English more than the British. In his usual empty-barrel characteristic this man vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable if Abiola died in detention. Abiola indeed died but our saintly Prof could not do jack! No doubt, Soyinka is living in his past glory. Sowing seed of discord and pitching the masses against the authority while criticising any sitting govt is unbecoming of his personality. Why is he closing his eyes from the atrocity of a sitting speaker who brazenly stepped the law on the face by attempting to make the minority rule over the majority in the legislative House? Did Soyinka see any aberration in our lawmakers scaling the fence of the National Assembly in an apparent show of ignominy? Has the Prof ever criticised the opposition for the series of provocative and crisis-breeding statements emanating from their camps on daily basis? Is the Prof living in a different world by pretending not to see glaring imperialism and oppressions taking place in the opposition controlled States? When Oshiomole asked a widow "to go and die", was he in the country? When Fashola forcefully displaced the Makoko people from a place they had lived for more than 100 years with little or no compensation, was Soyinka dead at that time? When many opposition members were sent to their premature grave in Ekiti in the buildup to the guber election, did the Prof cry fowl? The world was too swift in giving Prof Soyinka a novel Laurette.

maclatunji:
Soyinka condemns Jonathan’s ‘Impunity’, Likens President To ‘Nebuchadnezzar’

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has lambasted President Goodluck Jonathan for allowing what he called a reign of impunity, the latest being police siege on the National Assembly.

Mr. Soyinka said the latest action of Suleiman Abba, the Inspector General of Police, against members of the House of Representatives was an “unambiguous” declaration of war against the people.

At a press conference in Lagos he titled King Nebuchadnezzar – The Reign of Impunity, Mr. Soyinka said that the battle line had been drawn and Nigerians must decide whether to submit or resist to the current democratic dispensation.

“I shall not insist that the biblical figure of Nebuchadnezzar is uniquely apt for the pivotal figure of the ‘democratic’ history in the making at this moment,” said Mr. Soyinka. “For one thing, Nebu was a nation builder and a warrior. One could argue even more convincingly for the figure of Balthazar, his successor, or indeed Emperor Nero as reference point – you all remember him – the emperor who took to fiddling while Rome was burning.

“However you should easily recall why I opted for King Nebu – the figure that currently sits on the top of our political pile himself evoked it, albeit in a context that virtuously disclaimed any similarities, even tendencies. Perhaps he meant it at the time when he claimed: ‘I am no Nebuchadnezzar.’ Perhaps not. One judges leaders on acts however, not pronouncements, which are often as reliable as electoral promises.”

Mr. Soyinka said that it was left for Nigerians to decide to revert to the ‘Abacharian status of glorified slaves.”

“The praetorian guards have been let loose – to teach the rabble their place,” he said.

“The recent choice of a new leader for the guard was clearly no accident, and this hitherto unknown enforcer, one Suleiman Abba, has wasted no time in inaugurating a season of brutish power. When a people’s elected emissaries are disenfranchised, cast out like vagrants and resort to scaling fences to engage in their designated functions, the people get the message.

“However, the choice is always there, and each choice comes at a cost. It is either we pay now, or pay later.”

Mr. Soyinka also said that President Goodluck Jonathan had continued to surprise Nigerians in ways “few could have conjectured.”

“Peaking at his own personalised example where he set the law of arithmetic on its head – I refer to the split in the Governors’ Forum, and his ‘formal’ recognition of the minority will in a straightforward, peer election – democracy has been rendered meaningless where it should be most fervently exemplified.

“Nothing is more unworthy of leadership than to degrade a system by which one attains fulfilment, and this is what the nation has witnessed time and time again in various parts of the nation, the recent affront against the legislative chamber being only the most blatant and unconscionable…

“It is a warning. His choices for the occupancy of crucial public positions – such as the protective arm of the nation – constitutes an even more immediate and constant public alert. The signals are ominous – for and beyond 2015.”

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/02/soyinka-condemns-jonathan%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98impunity%E2%80%99-likens-president-%E2%80%98nebuchadnezzar%E2%80%99

johnbosco97:
When will Y.o.RU. ba stop being saboteurs. Just asking

kayciano:

NOW after all these things...
He can't still BURY HIMSELF..
He can't FLY without airplanes..
He still relies on GEJ to pay him monthly salary.
He may not even make a good leader(since he now has MOUTH DIARRHEA).
He can't attach PRESIDENT to his name.
He can't touch the walls of ASO ROCK.
He can't call for FEC meeting.
He can't do anything without GEJ's approval..
He can't even stage a coup.
He can't visit OPEC.
He can't address d AU.
He can't enter AIRFORCE ONE.
He can't even organise NASU meetings not to talk of ASUU..
He can't lead national prayers, without GEJ's approval
His memory can be wiped out with d emergence of our smart graduates..
He can't even cough b4 GEJ...but GEJ can fart b4 him..
SO, WHO IS HE....?
I THINK HE IS JUST A COCKROACH in a cellophane bag..

chidinwachukwu:
When the Saint Olusegun Obasanjo,gave a direct Order to wipe out a whole village,Old,young,and mothers inclusive(Udi and Zakibian),this Loud Mouthed Tribalistic Old School Professor did not even whisper,not to talk of qualifying Obasanjo as Such .Or the Speaker that is suppose to be making a law,but instead is breaking same.My people says in an adage'' that a man who harvested an Ant infected Firewood should kno that the Lizard will pay him a visit''.Rubbish.

Caseless:
That is , If gej is not worst than Nebucchadnezar.
Under-rate that clueless man at ur own peril.

kindabigg:


Fact is Ashebe died wretched, crippled, bitter, and tribalistic. Ashebe died without winning the most prestigious award in literature and he hated Soyinka for that till he died.

arsetalks:
Seriously, are these GEJ's achievements? Serious?

kayciano:

NOW after all these things...
He can't still BURY HIMSELF..
He can't FLY without airplanes..
He still relies on GEJ to pay him monthly salary.
He may not even make a good leader(since he now has MOUTH DIARRHEA).
He can't attach PRESIDENT to his name.
He can't touch the walls of ASO ROCK.
He can't call for FEC meeting.
He can't do anything without GEJ's approval..
He can't even stage a coup.
He can't visit OPEC.
He can't address d AU.
He can't enter AIRFORCE ONE.
He can't even organise NASU meetings not to talk of ASUU..
He can't lead national prayers, without GEJ's approval
His memory can be wiped out with d emergence of our smart graduates..
He can't even cough b4 GEJ...but GEJ can fart b4 him..
With all these , he can't differentiate a hippopotamus from a rhinoceros..
SO, WHO IS HE....?
I THINK HE IS JUST A COCKROACH in a cellophane bag..

charlzchudi:
For me ooooooooooo. I think in d time of Nebu, Babylon was prospering. They were world power.

kayciano:

NOW after all these things...
He can't still BURY HIMSELF..
He can't FLY without airplanes..
He still relies on GEJ to pay him monthly salary.
He may not even make a good leader(since he now has MOUTH DIARRHEA).
He can't attach PRESIDENT to his name.
He can't touch the walls of ASO ROCK.
He can't call for FEC meeting.
He can't do anything without GEJ's approval..
He can't even stage a coup.
He can't visit OPEC.
He can't address d AU.
He can't enter AIRFORCE ONE.
He can't even organise NASU meetings not to talk of ASUU..
He can't lead national prayers, without GEJ's approval
His memory can be wiped out with d emergence of our smart graduates..
He can't even cough b4 GEJ...but GEJ can fart b4 him..
With all these , he can't differentiate a hippopotamus from a rhinoceros..
SO, WHO IS HE....?
I THINK HE IS JUST A COCKROACH in a cellophane bag..

2cato:
Wole soyinka has been attacking gej is when gej failed to give any of his numerous children ministarial post. Mad Old Proffesor. Besides i thaught they say gej is a wickling and clueless.