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i must confess that our afonja cone head brothers are having nightmares right now reading this heart breaking ipod achievement news. i see them holding their chests and opening wide their ewedu mouths like hipopotamus

Another inter tribal war loading ... Lemme cross nd buy pop corn

Food don done

TVTKOKO:
sameway you can't explain why most calculating machines,, i mean 'mathematics brainbox' are yorubas

I was actually going to say this in the topic about a Yoruba guy winning a mathematics award. Yorubas have a thing with maths especially the muslim ones.

Kathmandu:
Tribalist will have a field date.


How come the Northerners don't do well on the international stage but they are always allocated choice post in Nigeria.




Truly, this country aptly describes the name Kanu calls it

Who told you they don't do well. Elnathan John has been shortlisted twice for the Caine Prize and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim once. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim recently won the Nigerian Literature Prize.

Chipappi should be on the list, I beg.

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Both young And old.
Check Nigerian novels for WAEC back in the days,

Achebe
Cyprian Ekwensi
Chukwuemeka Ike
Flora Nwapa
Buchi Emecheta
Elechi Amadi

There was Soyinka, Rotimi(Gods are not to blame) , but they are few non Igbo classic novelists

where is chimamamda

I told you that they would definitely make us proud

EVILFOREST:
Na only IGBOS and YORUBA dey Nigeria.
Imagine Igbos and Yoruba just coming together for just a year...now think of what they can make out.....?

If only they knew, they would have come together to front a common goal...
And leave Jihadists alone

If only! What a powerful country that will be, even more powerful with the northerners if they truly and fairly embrace nationhood

Afam4eva:

I was actually going to say this in the topic about a Yoruba guy winning a mathematics award. Yorubas have a thing with maths especially the muslim ones.

i dont think so, if u say lawyers i agree but mathematical courses like engineering have more igbos, go check COREN list.

EVILFOREST:
Na only IGBOS and YORUBA dey Nigeria.
Imagine Igbos and Yoruba just coming together for just a year...now think of what they can make out.....?

If only they knew, they would have come together to front a common goal...
And leave Jihadists alone

God forbid!

I still prefer Hausas to igbos.. People that don't show gratitude, all they think of is how to insult and call their helpers lazy

Again I say it.. God forbid bad thing

madapcmod:


i dont think so, if u say lawyers i agree but mathematical courses like engineering have more igbos, go check COREN list.

I didn't say engineering. I said Mathematics as a subject specifically. The best mathematicians in my class in secondary school were Yorubas.

IgbosAreGreat:



where is chimamamda

Didn't you see for WACE? Olodo

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Both young And old.
Check Nigerian novels for WAEC back in the days,

Achebe
Cyprian Ekwensi
Chukwuemeka Ike
Flora Nwapa
Buchi Emecheta
Elechi Amadi

There was Soyinka, Rotimi(Gods are not to blame) , but they are few non Igbo classic novelists

u said it all though

Alariwo2:


God forbid!

I still prefer Hausas to igbos.. People that don't show gratitude, all they think of is how to insult and call their helpers lazy

Again I say it.. God forbid bad thing

helpers indeed.

hucienda:
Congratulations ladies and gentleman.

I'll leave the analysis of their identities to the experts.

cc: NCAN

dis guy

Movingcoil:
These children will frown at this news..

What's the point of posting these pictures everywhere? To prove what exactly?

comradejudism:
When it comes to intellectual prowess and alacrity, give it to the igbos.

When Yorubas dominated the awards, we didn't hear noise o.

Taiwo! Tosin! Bukki ati Ayodele..ori e buru





Come an receive your own share of the cain, oshi!

DatblackBoi:
All these writers putting our story in prints.
Congratulations to them all.
I remember once when Ms. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had a misunderstanding with one man she called "My BOY" over this particular prize.

The question is do they really put our story in print.

Some of the guys above have excluded the likes of DO Fagunwa amongst many.

I'll tell you what I've seen of recent Yoruba literature unlike our eastern brethren who mostly write a novel about an African with European outlook and the primary audience being western most Yoruba literature is written with a societal undertone similar to the use of "owe" and aroba the consequence is that it tells an African tale , most suitable to the African experience

padiga047:
helpers indeed.

Till tomorrow, I won't regret choosing Buhari over GEJ. Get that into your skull ok?

I am reaping the fruits at least with laudable projects in my region. I am not the one crying marginalization all over the place with bad erosion ravaged roads.
So GTFOH

smackimorn:
Awolowo's free education didn't cover literature.


Better don't quote me.

Stop being tribalistic. No Igbo writer has won the Prize. But four Yoruba writers have.

LordOfNaira:


Who told you they don't do well. Elnathan John has been shortlisted twice for the Caine Prize and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim once. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim recently won the Nigerian Literature Prize.

local yampion

madapcmod:


i dont think so, if u say lawyers i agree but mathematical courses like engineering have more igbos, go check COREN list.

Actually it's proven fact , otherwise is the case.
Forget WAEC where teachers give students​ papers as had been found out in some centers in the east the Yoruba dominate all levels of tertiary learning

Alariwo2:


Till tomorrow, I won't regret choosing Buhari over GEJ. Get that into your skull ok?

I am reaping the fruits at least with laudable projects in my region. I am not the one crying marginalization all over the place with bad erosion ravaged roads.
So GTFOH

you are reading the fruits indeed


And you will surely vote him in 2019?


Shows me the level of your I. Q

Afam4eva:
Congrats to them all.

Can someone help in explaining why most young writers in Nigeria are Igbo. This is something i've noticed for a while now. Is there any concerted effort by the governors in the south-east that explains it or Igbos are just fond of the literary world.

The Igbo culture promotes folklore and proverbs. These two form the basis for literary incursion. There were also role models like Achebe, Ekwensi and others. Igbo authors also focused largely on narratives which tend to be more culturally appealing than the creative writing style of Soyinka

Kathmandu:
local yampion

I guess you missed the part where I wrote that they had been shortlisted for the same prize. Elnathan (Twice), Abubakar (Once).

And the Nigerian Literature Prize is not cheap. It is the most expensive prize in Africa. The winner goes home with 100, 000 dollars.

Afam4eva:
Congrats to them all.

Can someone help in explaining why most young writers in Nigeria are Igbo. This is something i've noticed for a while now. Is there any concerted effort by the governors in the south-east that explains it or Igbos are just fond of the literary world.

if you follow Nigeria literature, especially contemporary Nigerian literature you will know that budding young writers are nearly evenly spread across all the region's. The usually literally backward north has a teeming population of young writers to beat it chest with.

ephi123:


What's the point of posting these pictures everywhere? To prove what exactly?

To prove he is foolish

Here is a list of some of the tribes in Nigeria who adorn their faces with tribal marks Extravagantly

- Jukun
- Igbira
- Tiv
-Hausa
A friend who's mother is from the south south has bold tribal marks because their mother had a number of stillborns before him
-Awori

There are so many others , while tribal marks have reduced in most of Yoruba culture it is still very strong among some of the above listed.

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Both young And old.
Check Nigerian novels for WAEC back in the days,

Achebe
Cyprian Ekwensi
Chukwuemeka Ike
Flora Nwapa
Buchi Emecheta
Elechi Amadi

There was Soyinka, Rotimi(Gods are not to blame) , but they are few non Igbo classic novelists

In the newer generation, there are some great writers though relatively unknown compared to the ones you listed up there:

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani - "I do Not Come to You By Chance" was an absolutely hilarious read.
https://www.amazon.com/Do-Not-Come-You-Chance/dp/1401323111

Lola Jaye - By the Time You Read this
https://www.amazon.com/Time-You-Read-This/dp/0061733830