ipodstinks:
You all know Achebe deserves Nobel Prize but they did not give him abi. E be like say little blood don enter part of your brain. You can create thread for reason Achebe deserves it and not Soyinka with good fact. Let engage in the debate on the thread.

bakynes:

Wetin dey worry you Igbo people sef, must you compare him with Achebe, he has a Nobel Laureate prize your Achebe doesnt have, so tell me who the world recognizes the most?

john4reala:
he thought me how to mind my own business

Eyah. ...They were perennial winners of Nobels for stupidity (specially created for them)

It's a good thing you already take after them.

Your Nobel loading....my Nairaland ban loading

gensteejay:

Is there any research linking the use of marijuana as nasal inhalation to long life?

GeneralOjukwu:


I actually did this research on Achebe, Ojukwu and Soyinka.

1. Soyinka
2. Ojukwu
3. Achebe

in descending order in terms of eloquence and thought process.

Would read more Achebe books to form an opinion about literal ability.

Maybe I don't like poetry but I wasn't impressed by The Lion and the Jewel of Soyinka. Ake however was a great read.

NwaAmaikpe:


I on behalf of the Igbos on Nairaland
And the Indigenous People of Biafra wish the Prof a very happy birthday.

Even though we all know Chinua Achebe deserved that Nobel Prize in Literature and not you.
I still admire you.
Thanks for your literary works,
Thanks for your nonconformism
Thanks for the SeaDogs
Thanks for speaking up against oppression.

Happy birthday and many more years sir!

NwaAmaikpe:


I on behalf of the Igbos on Nairaland
And the Indigenous People of Biafra wish the Prof a very happy birthday.

Even though we all know Chinua Achebe deserved that Nobel Prize in Literature and not you.
I still admire you.
Thanks for your literary literature works,
Thanks for your nonconformism
Thanks for the SeaDogs
Thanks for speaking up against oppression.

Happy birthday and many more years sir!

rabonni:
Older than our president
But
Younger than Him
President's age is an official age

banmee:


Seriously? Guy, Nigerians with their penchant for evil turned what is normal and good and made diabolical. Fraternities are meant to something of pride in normal societies but not in Nigeria. Soyinka thought he was dealing with sane human beings when he introduced it not knowing Nigerians would twist it.

GeneralOjukwu:


Eyah. ...They were perennial winners of Nobels for stupidity (specially created for them)

It's a good thing you already take after them.

Your Nobel loading....my Nairaland ban loading

NwaAmaikpe:




Let's not go there..
I think you have given me the next idea for my thread
The Nobel Prize was politically motivated and not based on pure talents.
I have read ALL of Wole Soyinka's works
And ALL of Chinua Achebe's works.

So trust me when I say what I say about who deserved that prize.
Chinua Achebe was not just a writer but a prophet.
He was not just an academic but a beacon of morality.
Chinua Achebe was in a world of his own, almost unrivalled.
This is a fact most respected foreign writers believe and won't dispute.

Jaqenhghar:

Is there anything Nigerians dont kill with or abuse?
Anything that was introduced to make Nigerians more civilized and less evil, Nigerians have turned it to a medium to perpetrate more evil
Religion
Fraternities
Politics
Policing
The military
even the simple things like Marrying a wife is an excuse for some savages to rape women and they justify it by saying a man cant rape his wife

NwaAmaikpe:


I on behalf of the Igbos on Nairaland
And the Indigenous People of Biafra wish the Prof a very happy birthday.

Even though we all know Chinua Achebe deserved that Nobel Prize in Literature and not you.[s][/s]
I still admire you.
Thanks for your literary works,
Thanks for your nonconformism
Thanks for the SeaDogs
Thanks for speaking up against oppression.

Happy birthday and many more years sir!

john4reala:
FOOLISH MAN!! You are a course to Nigeria, you formed a fraternity where they kill themselves like animal, Now you brainwashed so many Nigerians that buhari will transform Nigeria in a twinkle of an eye! Because of the level of your education and wiseness everyone trooped out and vote for the Nomadic man! The man has spent most of his times in London!

NwaAmaikpe:


Remember The Man Died was the basis for his Nobel prize.
After reading that book...I lost respect for the Nobel Committee.
But this does not take away the fact that Wole Soyinka is very good too

Jaideyone:
mor0n he formed a confraternity to fight the course and the common man and challenge the authorities at the university of Ibadan those days. The fact that the confraternity metamorphosed into a cult group that kills people decades after he left the institution is not his fault. Use your brain before commenting.

BTW with the kind of folly you just displayed it's obvious no one!!! I repeat no one... In your linage can achieve what the professor has achieved. Get a life hater

john4reala:
I have a life already!!

banmee:


You know the worst part? They would find one way or the other to blame it on white people. Which kain tin be dis na? How can a people move forward when they refuse to take responsibility for their decisions and actions?

ADEWUMIMichael:
older than our president but mightier than him rather

lalasticlala:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/5642542_soy0007_jpeg50198652fb5854828fc462966cf77abf Wole Soyinka as a ten-year-old choir boy in 1946.

rabonni:
Older than our president
But
Younger than Him

john4reala:
FOOLISH MAN!! You are a course to Nigeria, you formed a fraternity where they kill themselves like animal, Now you brainwashed so many Nigerians that buhari will transform Nigeria in a twinkle of an eye! Because of the level of your education and wiseness everyone trooped out and vote for the Nomadic man! The man has spent most of his times in London!

genkins:


Look at this one!you don't even know the difference between course and curse yet you call someone that has achieved 100times more what your great grand father,grandfather, father, your stupid self and what you children will ever achieve 'foolish'.

Even if ur type was given two brains,can you beat this in your area of specialization?

1973: Honorary D.Litt, University of Leeds[49]
1973–74: Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
1983: Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[50]
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[51]
2005: Honorary doctorate degree, Princeton University[52]
2005: Conferred with the chieftaincy title of the Akinlatun of Egbaland by the Oba Alake of the Egba clan of Yorubaland. Soyinka was made a tribal aristocrat with the right to use the Yoruba title Oloye.[53]
2009: Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award
2013: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lifetime Achievement, United States[54]
2014: International Humanist Award[36][37]
Works