ziggymelosky:
China Achebe's books are original n highly creative but Chimamanda has won more literary awards than Chinua Achebe...

then there was no much literary awards
You just CNT compare both
Achebe is a legend

emyjay2015:
They all wrote their books in different time and Era where the level of exposures are different, Achebe was very good infact he is a legend and Adichie is also good too.

spot on

A new weed must be in town because even someone that smoked Oshogbo weed will not make this comparison. Obama and Buhari who speak English pass? Achebe is a legend whose work will forever remain in the mind of every literature reader.

anitapreeti:
please delete this thread!! this is an insult to a Legend.

Chinua Achebe inspired Chimamanda and she built her work on his, so don't compare them. this is like comparing a child to his father.

Lies. Chimmanda didn't build anything on Achebe. Achebe writes from the viewpoint of an African who know Africa like the palm of his hand while she writes like the new generation African who understands both her African values and the foreign values. It's not an insult but a honour to Achebe.

MEN,D PERSON WEY WRITE DIS TOPIC DON FUCKUP.HE/SHE MUST B SOO HIGH ON KWALE WEED.IS IT because COS ADICHIE IS SO HOT AND SEXY DAT Y U DEY SEE D LUST AND NOT ABLE TO SEE PROPERLY.I GRADUATED AS AN ENGINEERING STUDENT BUT EVEN ME SELF WEY NO BE LIITERATURE STUDENT KNOW SAY ACHEBE NA LEGEND AND ACHIE NA HER FAN because OF D SMALL KNOWLEDGE I KNOW FROM MY ENGLISH TEACHER IN SECONDARY SKOOL. PLS COMPARE ACHEBE WITH SOYINKA AND CO NOT ACHIE.FUNNY ENOF, AM A FAN OF ACHIE BUT BABA NA BABA.OP, I THINK U NEED TO APOLOGISE AFTER D CLOSE OF DIS THREAD COS U JUST INSULTED ACHEBE.

Tinu02:

Thank you. Very shallow comparison. To me chimamanda is good like every other write but nne no dey compare warri wolves to barcelona.
If you have read books by Sidney sheldon and dan brown you won't open this thread in the first place.

Babes! You're the wickedest!!!

And, Sidney Sheldon? He's my favourite. Best ever!
Dan Brown's 'Da Vinci Code' is also dope.

I'm not saying adichie is better o, but I really enjoy her books

just passing by .i can only recall the name n tinx fall apart the centre can not hold .But chima wetin it sound new to me cos i no know am.
so i give it to pa Achebe.

Tinu02:

Thank you. Very shallow comparison. To me chimamanda is good like every other write but nne no dey compare warri wolves to barcelona.
If you have read books by Sidney sheldon and dan brown you won't open this thread in the first place.

No. Chimmanda is better. Dan Browne is grammatically inferior. His stories and narrations are wonderful but his tenses are messed up.

Who is better?

Does it matter? As far as they fulfilled there potentials

Achebe is one of the founders of African Literature, and others are learning from him.

We the modern writers can't possibly challenge him there because, he was born when Africa was Africa, not all these modernizations.

He saw Africa Happen.

A very stupid question...op learn to think

The right comparison would be chimamanda vs Wole Soyinka

Akshow:
Not to rubbish Achebe's achievement in the literary world. He is a pioneer and a master of the craft of story telling but Chimamanda is a far better writer.



Majority of those shouting Achebe most probably are just hero worshipping and have never read a single book of Chimamanda. Achebe is a good story teller while Chimamanda is a better literary artist.

Exactly bro. People don't know what makes great stories great. Chimmanda is the best writer since the creation of this country. No one comes close.

joshuaidibia:
you are still making thesame mistake my friend. Amanda is NOT 'closer' to Dan or Sydney. Use another writer please. I understand u. U meant between Achebe and Amanda,she is the one that is 'closer' to Dan and Sydney. Me am telling u dat u should not use dan and sydney. She no closer anything..

Why shouldn't I?Have you by any chance read the works of these people you are talking about?You do not seem to know what you are talking about.Heck, you even think that Dan Brown wrote Dante's Inferno.

this is a very big insult to the father of literature in NIgeria

Tinu02:

Thank you. Very shallow comparison. To me chimamanda is good like every other write but nne no dey compare warri wolves to barcelona.
If you have read books by Sidney sheldon and dan brown you won't open this thread in the first place.

dan brown is no more a human being *winks*

It would seem that the only author most peeps commenting here can care to reference as their best is Sidney Sheldon....that says something doesn't it.. You'd think Sidney Shelton and Dan Brown....are The Gods of Literature

there is nothing like better writer. I'm a writer myself and I know that each writer is as unique as can be possible. writers don't write because they want to better than somebody, they write because they have a story or a point of view to share and pass across.

both have their styles of writing. it's just like comparing oranges and apples.

no two writers can ever be the same.

Nihilist:
Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten- Chinua Achebe.

Things fall apart and No longer at ease are quite possibly the best novels to come out of Nigeria imo.

Reading Those books felt like going back in time, and interacting with characters so real, I could visualise them in my head...

And all those proverbs...

Arrow of God nko?
That book is fantasticaly fantastic!

Ranchhoddas:
Why shouldn't I?Have you by any chance read the works of these people you are talking about?You do not seem to know what you are talking about.Heck, you even think that Dan Brown wrote Dante's Inferno.

Dante Inferno was a poem written by Dante. DanBrown wrote Inferno. Or please sir,tell me who wrote Inferno.

This comparison sounds ridiculous.

Kudos to Adichie, She's won MacArthur fellowship, Radcliffe fellowship, honorary doctorates. But please, it will still take years to reach Achebe's height.

It's like comparing Draymond Green to Malone because Green has won a NBA ring.

Stop it!!

People like being unnecessarily harsh when they can actually chill up.

I do not really blame anybody who tries to compare Adichie's works with Achebe's. They are similar in so many ways. I've read some of their books, and there are so many comparisons. Reading Adichie's books, you can't help but flash back to Achebe's works. But Achebe's works capture a finite definition of originality. Adichie's works are very subtle, interesting, but they are bordering on the use of more modern tools. Achebe was more culture-defined. More African.

It's very apparent that Adichie got her real/final push/inspiration from Achebe. Even the 'New York Times' described Adichie as "the 21st Century daughter of another Igbo prodigy, Chinua Achebe".

Adichie is good, Achebe was good too. But well, you could give it to Achebe, why? He was more like the first/original copy/version of Adichie. He had the original story. Suffice it, he was like a source. The source.

Nevertheless, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for what's worth, deserves a lot of credit. Reading through people's comments, I kinda think she doesn't get enough credit for how good she is, because...she is damn good. She is bae.

joshuaidibia:
Dante Inferno was a poem written by Dante. DanBrown wrote Inferno. Or please sir,tell me who wrote Inferno.

Bros nor dey follow peeps like this dey argue.. na to. just smh waka pass

JoeCutie:
People like being unnecessarily harsh when they can actually chill up.

I do not really blame anybody who tries to compare Adichie's works with Achebe's. They are similar in so many ways. I've read some of their books, and there are so many comparisons. Reading Adichie's books, you can't help but flash back to Achebe's works. But Achebe's works capture a finite definition of originality. Adichie's works are very subtle, interesting, but they are bordering on the use of more modern tools. Achebe was more culture-defined.

It's very apparent that Adichie got her real/final push/inspiration from Achebe. Even the 'New York Times' described Adichie as "the 21st Century daughter of another Igbo prodigy, Chinua Achebe".

Adichie is good, but Achebe was better. Why? He was more like the first/original copy/version of Adichie. Suffice it, he was like a source. The source.

Nevertheless, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for what's worth, deserves a lot of credit. Reading through people's comments, I kinda think she doesn't get enough credit for how good she is, because...she is damn good. She is bae.

Bless you bro......#OnPoint

henhen,now i seee,sexiness as taken over d world,dat wat i said earliier,she is a good writer and she is very hot,sexy,gorgeous,black beauty and also has a very sexy vocal which makes her has so many fan.i think dis was d factor dis weak op was using as a basis for arguement .i think dis is a big insult to achebe,

UjSizzle:
Sure Achebe is the legend and Adichie learnt from him, but I love her voice better than I ever did Achebe's.
Her stories are relatable and there's a tone of familiarity to her works.

ziggymelosky:
I have read both Chimamanda Adichies books and Chinua Achebe's books.I must say Chimamanda is a more prolific n wordy writer than Chinua...

CHIMAMANDA!!! A prolific but biased and subjective writer. I can still recall her "Half of a yellow sun" describing federal troops as being inhuman and wicked because most of their bombs fell on civilian terrains, and I said to myself, "BUT IT's A WAR"!!! The igbos then should have known when chanting BIAFRA! BIAFRA!!! She's a BIAFRAN sympathizer and she clearly showed it in that book which has and will always make me rate CHINUA ACHEBE the "THING FALL APART" crooner over her!! Thank you!

Death actually makes one Bigger.
If one is retired/inactive/dead, and his opponent is still active. The former will always be favoured in any debate.
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In Rap, Eminem or Jay z are never to be compared to 2pac or biggie..... The death of those two will always make them seem bigger. If either eminem/jay z dies today, the debate that 2pac or biggie is no1 will be revisited
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In sports, Messi can never be ranked ahead of zidane or pele/maradona because he is still active, wait let messi retire then the debate will wax stronger
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That's the way it is, death makes one bigger.
Wait until chimamanda adichie retires or dies, then let's revisit the argument because for now, achebe will be the clear winner.

Geesanni:
henhen,now i seee,sexiness as taken over d world,dat wat i said earliier,she is a good writer and she is very hot,sexy,gorgeous,black beauty and also has a very sexy vocal which makes her has so many fan.i think dis was d factor dis weak op was using as a basis for arguement .i think dis is a big insult to achebe,

You'd reconsider my opinion a second time if you actually realised that writers have 'voices'-- writing voice, not the vocal one you hear.

Majority of those shouting Achebe most probably are just hero worshipping and have never read a single book of Chimamanda. Achebe is a good story teller while Chimamanda is a better literary artist. [/quote]

young man.. In d United States Leadership no mata hw Obama n d presidents 2 come run d govt very well bt Washington n Benjamin Franklin will 4eva remain their reference point.. So there4 in Literature, Legends Like Shakespare, Achebe n d livin Soyinka will b reference point. So no matter how well a writters work may b nw u'll always remain under d shadow of d Legends. W.r.t Chimamanda, she will ever b under d shadow of Achebe. Cos Legends r meant 2 b immortalized!

Achebe is the best literary icon that ever emerged from Africa
Amanda learnt and drank from his wisdom...others are catching up

charlesucheh:
CHIMAMANDA!!! A prolific but biased and subjective writer. I can still recall her "Half of a yellow sun" describing federal troops as being inhuman and wicked because most of their bombs fell on civilian terrains, and I said to myself, "BUT IT's A WAR"!!! The igbos then should have known when chanting BIAFRA! BIAFRA!!! She's a BIAFRAN sympathizer and she clearly showed it in that book which has and will always make me rate CHINUA ACHEBE the "THING FALL APART" crooner over her!! Thank you!

Now let's do comparative analysis

Place THERE WAS A COUNTRY side by side with HALF A YELLOW SUN ...LetS look at the narratives forget the thematic meaning
Let's look at the delivery

Can we dabble into this

Engage me intellectually

engrsoma:
Who is better?

Does it matter? As far as they fulfilled there potentials

Achebe is one of the founders of African Literature, and others are learning from him.

We the modern writers can't possibly challenge him there because, he was born when Africa was Africa, not all these modernizations.

He saw Africa Happen.

Who are you, brother? I was marvelled at this very statement. It clearly explains who he was. Absolutely spot on! You're good.