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Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Nobody: 10:39am On May 09, 2019 |
SarkinYarki: He was the first black africa to win the nobel prize, you're an adult next time i won't feeder feed you. 6 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Antichristus: 10:39am On May 09, 2019 |
SLAP44: Soyinka, as a sage, followed the maxim which states that “a few loaded words is enough for the wise.” Of course, the unwise - such as yourself - won’t make a sense of it. Hence your very unthoughtful conclusion. 5 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Salah09: 10:40am On May 09, 2019 |
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Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Pipapi1: 10:41am On May 09, 2019 |
How would Reno have understood why Soyinka won it? No way on earth because the frequency at which Soyinka operates if far higher than what Reno's IQ could cope with shikena! |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Premiumwriter: 10:41am On May 09, 2019 |
wirinet:somebody already said that Einstein is overrated. the way some nigerians reasons makes me want to purge ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by SarkinYarki: 10:44am On May 09, 2019 |
ericsmith: I thought he was the first Yoruba man to win it oooo |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Nobody: 10:48am On May 09, 2019 |
colestephan86: soyinka has no case, more reason he avoided the brutal truth....Reno passed his message in simple english.....and soyinka is beating about the bush. that also lays fact to Omokri claims. 1 Like |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Nobody: 10:50am On May 09, 2019 |
SLAP44: Bless you....bless you...bless you. 1 Like |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by gameboyo: 10:51am On May 09, 2019 |
Goke7: Atleast wole supported IBB's government, Achebe never supported ahy incase you've forgotten 1 Like |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by colestephan86: 10:53am On May 09, 2019 |
Osagyefo98:There is nothing neither you nor rino says that changes who the Nobel laureate is and who the mere writer is. So myfriend stay focused. 5 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by anonimi: 10:55am On May 09, 2019 |
Sanchez01: I have tried to keep up with your engaging contributions to this thread. I am fascinated by your mastery of the subject. Kudos. I just noticed your signature also: Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Powerful message that seems to be missing for a lot of Nigerians, nay blacks. Thanks. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by D1Wonder(m): 10:56am On May 09, 2019 |
I wrote my first degree Thesis on Wole Soyinka...Death Motifs in the Works of Wole Soyinka...University of Ilorin, suoervised by Dr..Femi Dunmade..truth is Wole Soyinka is a class of his own. He not only excelled in the three genre of literarture, he has written countless articles, memoirs etc over the years. While I adore Chinua Achebe for his simplicity of style, historicity of content and good use of African proverbs, Wole Soyinka is a classic weaver of English Language beyond compare...Well, both of them left indelible legacies...Great men, both, Nobel or no Award...Respect to the living legend and the late hero 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by PrimadonnaO(f): 10:57am On May 09, 2019 |
aribisala0: Trials of Brother Jero... Lion and the Jewel...A Dance of the Forests. The Telephone conversation poem. I'm an Art student, so I know how to appreciate these things. But someone made a point which I had hitherto not considered. Chinua is primarily a novelist... Soyinka's works cut across all genre. I favour novels... it's perhaps one of the reasons I prefer Achebe. 6 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Softness147: 10:57am On May 09, 2019 |
Adeoludt: can u imagine. Did u read the reply at all. I think u need to go back to school cos Soyinka didn't even mentioned anything concerning Reno here |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by RTSC: 11:01am On May 09, 2019 |
aribisala0:You are an ignorant bigot trying to get glory where there is none. The Nobel is not the be all and end all. It is just a prize that hundreds of people unknown today have won. It is just an award just like other literary awards albeit a prestigious one. It is not the only mark of greatness. Achebe could win the Nobel posthumously Tommorrow and it won't add anything to him. The greatest honour is the fact that he will forever remain the most respected, the most read, the most translated African writer of all time. The Bible of African contemporary literature. There is no greater mark of excellence 3 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Officialgarri: 11:03am On May 09, 2019 |
If you say GEJ Is a better ruler than PMB, i won't be bothered, perhaps its you being partisan and your political affiliation —Its politics. If you say Davido is better than Wizkid, no pulse raised, everyone has his personal taste. Its entertainment But when you try to introduce sentiments between two great history makers probably because you could only comprehend one's level of knowledge and exposure than the other, or because one is from a different tribe or mostly because one didn't support your paymaster's reelection, —then the little respect I had for you must go down the drain. It shows you are a petty stupid asslicker. 8 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Askng(m): 11:04am On May 09, 2019 |
Kongi Wired mortal from the English Art Banished from his home, spotted from a distance Noble amongst scrawling African inscriptions First veneration of mystical minds Take a bow, take a bow. Obliterating deliberate disregard From interrupters of our histories, With trophies, allays a regret and loss So little for so great a heart, Take a bow, take a bow. Liberal lord of limpid looks Grand philosophy too many for little minds, Art of African arts Impenetrable obscurity to the impatient, Take a bow, take a bow. Entangled genus in the darkest harbor, Found in a waste howling wilderness, Left to die in the gaols like their many kills, And death too weak, spewed him in his flowers Take a bow, take a bow. Scrupulous dexterity of the bearded laurel Multitudinous nobility and countless soothing saccharine A restoration of our dignity not celebrated, and un-sung. Tyrannous candor engulfed intelligential Take a bow, take a bow. Obdurate at the palaces of murderers Smiling at military cavalcades, the terror of comrades. Where barrels pacify the wrangling of children men. A beholding bluff like Ogun’s iron garb Take a bow, take a bow. Yea, the snow-like signature in scraggy form Impresses nature’s validity on his authority, Corroding flesh lacerate aptness from his brow Gyrating orbits of unmatched intelligence Take a bow, take a bow. Invisible man from the “kongi” kingdom Imposing trepidation on pharaohs in the jungle, Brawny penchant where others retire, On Lagos streets and London’s courtyard Take a bow, take a bow. Nibble in niggle, stripping rogues of honor Loathing unsavory milk unlike sycophants Discarding opulence to mediate for the poor With no reward or crown in intention Take a bow, take a bow. Knack for wars with imperious monsters A constant blustery of unrepentant “Vagabonds” Dusk till dawn, yearning for Justice. Crying still, for murdered motherland Take a bow, take a bow. And if he dies tomorrow, As death to all must come, His posture, a statue for ever, On our minds and in those rulers of the jungle. Take a bow, take a bow. Dedicated to Prof. Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate 1986 http://www.voicesnet.com/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=112220 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by aribisala0(m): 11:06am On May 09, 2019 |
RTSC: These are your infantile wishes. Achebe did not win the Nobel Prize because he was not good enough several Africans have won it and he was NEVER nominated. The Nobel prize is not just an award ,keep consoling yourself. It is the ultimate award in literature. 6 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by RTSC: 11:06am On May 09, 2019 |
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/artsbooks/264478-achebes-things-fall-apart-makes-12-greatest-books-ever-written-list.html%3Famp_markup=1 Achebe made 12 greatest books of all time compiled by encyclopedia brittanica. Most of the books on the list are Nobel winning books, which shows Achebe's class. No Soyinka book made the list even with his nobel. 3 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by aribisala0(m): 11:08am On May 09, 2019 |
PrimadonnaO:If you have read those works as you claim on what basis can you be talking of literary prowess and comparing the two ![]() It is like comparing a singer to a pianist. Really I am confused 3 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by RTSC: 11:10am On May 09, 2019 |
aribisala0:Oga, you are just a hater. Achebe is included in the greatest books of all time along with the Bible, Tolstoy and Harper Lee who are both Nobel winners. Go and put Soyinka among them if it Pains you. 2 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by Nobody: 11:11am On May 09, 2019 |
SarkinYarki: how was i suppose to know you're a kid,even babies have phone these days. 3 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by adekhingz(m): 11:14am On May 09, 2019 |
SpaceTour: If Reno's opinion is not filled with tribal sentiments, who asked for his opinion on who is between the two great men? 1 Like
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Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by SocialJustice: 11:16am On May 09, 2019 |
vonlogon:Do not cry more than the bereaved, I am not your mate, let us be. 2 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by lx3as(m): 11:21am On May 09, 2019 |
I like the South South people for one thing: they know how to press the emotional 'mumu' Button of their slaves. 3 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by thunderbabs: 11:24am On May 09, 2019 |
Rino got a lovely response from Prof.. |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by sijilaw: 11:27am On May 09, 2019 |
vonlogon:as in 'get something doing coz i ain't gonna reply you again' #enjoy 1 Like |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by aribisala0(m): 11:30am On May 09, 2019 |
RTSC:Hating who? Achebe is not a book neither is Tolstoy so correct your syntax. It is not clear what "greatness" means but there are dozens of such lists of greatest books whether it is by The New York Times , The Guardian of London, Ikebe Super or any other compiler. Nairaland could decide to commission such a list. Perhaps we need to understand what is meant by "great" . No such compiler has the imprimatur of the Nobel Prize . The Nobel Prize is not given for ONE BOOK . It is given for literature and for contributions that are comprehensive and extensive not for one book. This extends beyond books(novels) to poetry,plays and more recently oral composition. Clearly this eludes you as you are only interested in bragging rights and have no understanding of literature. 10 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by rex444(m): 11:33am On May 09, 2019 |
frankmoney:really? Didn't know oo |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by sunkieisland(m): 11:46am On May 09, 2019 |
Idokoegbunu: For that guy Comprehension - zero That guy doesn't understand the idea the writer was communicating. 2 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by sunkieisland(m): 11:49am On May 09, 2019 |
aribisala0: Well said Tribal bigo.ts everywhere. Semi literate folks forming don up and down 3 Likes |
Re: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by aribisala0(m): 11:51am On May 09, 2019 |
rex444:CocaCola is perhaps the most drunk drink that does not make it healthy or good. P0rn gets the greatest searches on the internet does that mean P0rn films are the best? 3 Likes |
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