BuhariAdvocate:
keep quiet so anyone supporting Buhari and good governance is from north?

SarkinYarki:
over 116 people have won the Nobel prize for literature including Bob Dylan the country musician !!!! so Wole Soyinka should stop disturbing like he is the first and last person to win it ..Its not a that much of a big deal jare

StOla:


So why is it a mortal pain to Igbos that they will have to win such as a catch up to Yorubas?

LuciferKoran:


*said.

This is exactly why I said you are not in a position to judge Achebe & Soyinka.
Stick to bomb-making & blade sharpening.



*spits

Osagyefo98:
Chinua achebe is true to his pen whille achebe is more politics.

fergie001:

Baba check wetin you write biko....

LuciferKoran:


*said.

This is exactly why I said you are not in a position to judge Achebe & Soyinka.
Stick to bomb-making & blade sharpening.



*spits

Goke7:
some fellas are just educated illiterates e.g. Reno.

Soyinka has paid his dues, not many including those who are always using their ethnic bigotry to cast aspersions knew the efforts Prof Soyinka made to persuade the Govt back in the 60s to avert the bloody civil war.

It's high time folks are properly educated from the history books to give credit rightly where it belongs and stop exposing their high level of illiteracy, the fact that Soyinka never supported your favourite politician does not reduce or diminish his hard earned credentials and precious contributions to the project called' Nigeria'. Nigeria would have been a better place if we had more like him.

SarkinYarki:


Any Igbo writer will win one soon , just watch sir

Osagyefo98:





Edit put and put soyinka at his right place.

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while soyinka is more of politics.

SLAP44:
In the end, Soyinka spoke so many words and ended up saying nothing in response to the issues raised.

Such an evasive character is not worthy of even the readers digest author of the week award.

SLAP44:
In the end, Soyinka spoke so many words and ended up saying nothing in response to the issues raised.

Such an evasive character is not worthy of even the readers digest author of the week award.

StOla:


And your grief will finally end that day?

babyfaceafrica:
he ended up not saying anything meaningful to you because you attended ariaria night school...you need help

StOla:
Why do people fail to learn that literature is not about Prose alone.

The 3 genres of literature are Prose(Novel), Drama(Play), and Poetry.

While Soyinka ticks the box in all, Achebe ticks only the Prose box.

While Soyinka is an acclaimed Playwright and Poet, Achebe is an acclaimed Novelist.

Soyinka won the Nobel for the dual reason of Drama and Poetry, and this much reason was stated in his award justification, as the reason for all other awardees are stated.




So why are people comparing an apple to an orange when the award for best fruit was given to an orange on the basis that for that years consideration, the sweetest orange was the decider?

tinsel:
The problem with Jonathan boys is that anybody that did not support Jonathan in 2015 is evil and not good.They must attack him.

Osagyefo98:
Sincerely speaking, soyinka didn't write anything.

All his 55 pages book is nothing but trash.

SarkinYarki:


I am tired of Soyinka behaving as if he is the custodian of Nobel prize for literature

wirinet:

Sincerely speaking, you must think yourself more learned and intelligent than the Nobel Committee for Literature who picked Wole Soyinka over thousands of others.

Nigerians have this overbloated ego and false sense of importance. Small time you will say Einstein is trash and knows nothing in physics.

SLAP44:
In the end, Soyinka spoke so many words and ended up saying nothing in response to the issues raised.

Such an evasive character is not worthy of even the readers digest author of the week award.

Osagyefo98:



Afonja defending a 55 page book...lolzzzz

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while achebe is more off politics.

Osagyefo98:



Afonja defending a 55 page book...lolzzzz

Chinua achebe is true to his pen while achebe is more off politics.

wirinet:



All these people must be Afonjas then that nominated a 55 page book for Nobel Price;

1. Members of the Swedish Academy and of other
academies, institutions and societies which are
similar to it in construction and purpose;

2. Professors of literature and of linguistics at
universities and university colleges;

3. Previous Nobel Laureates in Literature;

4. Presidents of those societies of authors that are
representative of the literary production in their
respective countries.
- https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/

I still say it, you guys have chronic psychological issues, that is connected to the fear, envy and jealousy of Afonjas. You can't go a single day, sorry a single hour without thinking of Afonjas.