cap28:
Of what benefit is this post to the average Nigerian?
How many Nigerians actually understand Soyinka's literary style?
I find his writing to be very pretentious and inaccessible to about 90% of Nigerians so what is really the point of it?
Also Soyinka never criticises the western world which for me indicates that he is an imperialist puppet.

Everyone is a puppet to you and that makes me wonder if you aren't a fifth columnist yourself.

And when they ask to name to upstanding folks, you'll start naming fools like Mike Tyson et al.

Get a grip!

SirShymexx:
White privilege and its ugly face. Why even nominate the man, when it's clear you wanted a white man? Soyinka led the voting, until they started campaigning for Simon Armitage everywhere. And the late surge was what pushed him.

Anyway, Soyinka is 81 - and he doesn't even need it.

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First Tinubu, then Femi now Wole.

espn:
Bias? For criticising the inefficiency of a failed government and its nation.. we hate the truth!

How come he's now deaf and dumb with the new government?

Def some ppol will be all smiles b happy cos of this SMH

PappyMason:

Wole Soyinka won't be anybody today if not for that great white chieftaincy tittle he carries around.

Wole Soyinka is overrated

Lol. What "white Chieftaincy" title?

Still mad he won Nobel Prize for Literature and ya man never won it?

You can't change history and his body of work speak for itself.

Oyinbo value their legend more than we African value ours.

PappyMason:
Wole Soyinka is now recognized within his academic circles as a fraud.



Only God know how some people would have beat their flat chests if he was elected.

I like the part when one of the poets said Wole Soyinka is no longer a prolific poet and hardly writes poetry anymore.

Well the reason for his lack of poetry is because he had free meals and board courtesy of Amaechi de Magga

His new job is to dish out insults to politicians who don't "Roger Roger" him. Pick pocket poet

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PappyMason:


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The real Pappy Mason is a real nyggah, a thorough bred and gun slinger, who busted his guns.

I don't have time for internet homo thugs - fake thugs, no love.

PappyMason:



Wole Soyinka won't be anybody today if not for that great white chieftaincy tittle he carries around.

Wole Soyinka is overrated

weather white chieftaincy or not...he still master speech...i am sure,even if the white-race dont exist,he will still be a great man by the black-peoples....

Amusaopeyemi:
Prof. Wole Soyinka has lost the race to be Oxford’s Professor of poetry to British poet, Simon Armitage.

Armitage, a popular poet and broadcaster, secured 1,221 votes – 301 more than his closest rival, Wole Soyinka.


Armitage was backed by 58 names, including John Carey and Melvyn Bragg. Bragg had previously supported Soyinka, but later publicly switched his allegiance to Armitage, saying the 80-year-old might not “bother to come to Oxford” if he were to win.

He said Soyinka, a US-based Nigerian who turns 81 next month, “has not written much poetry recently and I now wonder how often he would bother to come to Oxford. Soyinka is a grand man and would regard it as a grand post. I also query his age.”

Soyinka had hit back, saying: “How curious that anyone would even speculate that I would allow busy and committed people – friends, colleagues and total strangers – to waste their time nominating and campaigning on my behalf for such a prestigious position if I were not serious about contesting.”

Soyinka initially led the way with the most nominations in the early stage of the election. Candidates need to be nominated by at least 50 Oxford graduates and Soyinka had more than 90 nods.

Armitage will be expected to deliver one public lecture per term, facilitating the “art of poetry in the university” with a salary of £12,000 a year.

Source : http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/oxfords-professor-of-poetry-wole-soyinka-loses-race-to-british-poet-simon-armitage/

He is writing children stories like lion and the jewel ....Oxford is a serious place

This isn't Nobel that he won been Western apologist

Where is achebe..well chimamanda will win it

Soyinka you are a politician and a critic you have left scholary ventures so go back to APC

Sure you okay? This isn't abt any ethnic grp but but a nigerian, let that sink in uhnn

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lexan1:
To be honest, wole soyinka's books are overrated, i'm not hating, i'm just saying Nigerians should really read books to know that his books are overrated

Show me your own book or idonbelieveyou, baboon!

PappyMason:
Wole Soyinka is now recognized within his academic circles as a fraud.



Only God know how some people would have beat their flat chests if he was elected.

I like the part when one of the poets said Wole Soyinka is no longer a prolific poet and hardly writes poetry anymore.

Well the reason for his lack of poetry is because he had free meals and board courtesy of Amaechi de Magga

That was known since last century

Forwetinnah:


His new job is to dish out insults to politicians who don't "Roger Roger" him. Pick pocket poet

I have since lost every single respect I had for this man.

He is obviously a cheap skate hustler looking for where to score and who to scam.

He is also an attention seeking wh0re who is so used to listening to his own garbage.

Soyinka is the most inconsistent and hypocritical being who obviously needs to crawl into a crag and die slowly.

rileyy:
Sure you okay? This isn't abt any ethnic grp but but a nigerian, let that sink in uhnn

Like the way you guys started a petition to prevent an Ivy league college in the US from honoring Ngozi.

SirShymexx:
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The real Pappy Mason is a real nyggah, a thorough bred and gun slinger, who busted his guns.

I don't have time for internet homo thugs - fake thugs, no love.

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Thats what happens when u endorse BUHARI, All our enemies shall see no progress this year till this darkness ( buhari ) there brought upon this great nation is removed.

rileyy:
Sure you okay? This isn't abt any ethnic grp but but a nigerian, let that sink in uhnn

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Yoruba losses continue


First Tinubu, then Femi now Wole.

Carry your cross biko...its now a National issue because it's Wole?? If it was Achebe, you'll remember the tribe called Igbo

tonychristopher:

He is writing children stories like lion and the jewel ....Oxford is a serious place

This isn't Nobel that he won been Western apologist

Where is achebe..well chimamanda will win it

Soyinka you are a politician and a critic you have left scholary ventures so go back to APC

Lol. You call Lion and the Jewel children's story? Do u read at all? Or do u even understand what u read in that book.

carzola:
Thats what happens when u endorse BUHARI, All our enemies shall see no progress this year till this darkness ( buhari ) there brought upon this great nation is removed.

Iseeeee!!

SirShymexx:


Everyone is a puppet to you and that makes me wonder if you aren't a fifth columnist yourself.

And when they ask to name to upstanding folks, you'll start naming fools like Mike Tyson et al.

Get a grip!

Er I didn't know that stating that Mike Tyson is one of the greatest boxers of all time also meant that I thought he was also an upstanding member of society.

But why would I expect anything different from someone who described Kanye West ( a man who samples music created by other people) as a genius!
Or someone who describes gangbanger Tupac Shakur as the Malcolm X of rap or illiterate, self hater, Floyd Mayweather who wants nothing to do with Africa (your own continent of origin in case you've forgotten) as the messiah - bro you are absolutely hilarious

PappyMason:


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I know it's you, muthaphucka - legendary troll.

I still don't know why you always call the names of real nyggahs, who earned their stars and stripes, in vain - you internet homo thug.

Forwetinnah:


Carry your cross biko...its now a National issue because it's Wole?? If it was Achebe, you'll remember the tribe called Igbo

You remember how they started a petition to stop Ngozi from receiving a honorary position in Stanford?

SirShymexx:


I know it's you, muthaphucka - legendary troll.

I still don't know why you always call the names of real nyggahs, who earned their stars and stripes, in vain - you internet homo thug.

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Because I be packing heat all the time

PappyMason:


Like the way you guys started a petition to prevent an Ivy league college in the US from honoring Ngozi.

Just don't mind these people...they sing UNITY when it suits them. Na Hausa people fit them

Sorry to say: but you and maxymilliano just spelt "bias" wrongly

Especially you cyprus...is that the spelling of nourishment
On your signature?

Smh for you.

Meanwhile Prof soyinka should take break and have a good rest..At 81 he should be on vacation chilling off.

cyprus000:

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And what makes him biase?

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PappyMason:


I have since lost every single respect I had for this man.

He is obviously a cheap skate hustler looking for where to score and who to scam.

He is also an attention seeking wh0re who is so used to listening to his own garbage.

Soyinka is the most inconsistent and hypocritical being who obviously needs to crawl into a crag and die slowly.

doesnt matter...soyinka is doing the right thing....nigeria needs him more than ever...our new black-generations,are completly clueless...they dont understand,how to deal with the devil-white-race....we black-people are trying very hard to forget the past..dont forget,slavery(please for the sake of those that suffered over generations,we should never forget
slavery),colonization,(how can you sit in room,and deceid that someone dont deserve to be free,COME ON)...
brainwashing,(since the end of colonization,they are trying to tell us,that we are not capable to deal with our own matters,then we said okay help us,they said,we will help you,if you and your children become gay).....

do you people,still think its good to be friends with white-people,after all this??

think twice....

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I said it
D guy is not good
D only book he wrote is " d lion and d jewel"
And he's still bragging like one great scholar
Yellowbars shld learn from Achebe'z legacy

Buhahahahaha! This guy self.. Na this kind comment them go read now, then face my people thinking say you na Igbo guy..

Wole soyinka is one man I respect so much.

cap28:

Er I didn't know that stating that Mike Tyson is one of the greatest boxers of all time also meant that I thought he was also an upstanding member of society.

But why would I expect anything different from someone who described Kanye West ( a man who samples music created by other people) as a genius!
Or someone who describes gangbanger Tupac Shakur as the Malcolm X of rap or illiterate, self hater, Floyd Mayweather who wants nothing to do with Africa (your own continent of origin in case you've forgotten) as the messiah - bro you are absolutely hilarious

Mike Tyson, a Brownsville nyggah, who even at the peak of his career, was still running around with killers and stick up kids like hommo (the guy who shot 50 cent 9 times) and Nuts (the guy who rap.ed Egypt, a former radio presenter and the leader of Get Money crew) - whose rise to fame was about killing other black people and polluting black neighbourhoods with crack cocaine - is ya hero. A Mike Tyson, who has never done anything for anyone, apart from running with thugs and making white folks rich as a perpetual coon.

Yes, Kanye West is a darn genius - go heck his body of work. Tupac Shakur is the most influential musician ever and he was the Malcolm X of hip-hop. And Floyd Mayweather is a marketing and business genius - who else has been able to make the same money he made in boxing?

How about tell me who isn't a puppet cos everyone is a puppet to you. I need names.

See, Oyinbo too dey collect now, no be only we.