Probably most people don't know the reason why Wole Soyinka was given Noble Prize Award. It was obvious that the Late Chinue Achebe was the favourite to win Noble Prize ahead of Wole Soyinka but Chinue Achebe was denied the award because he was the only person in Africa that stood and criticized the Western countries of been biased in giving award. He told them that in giving award, they should not only judge based on their {Western}perception of writing, but they should also look at it based on African perception.

This did not go down well with the Western countries who knew that the Late Chinue Achebe had exposed their biased judgement. So, to punish Chinue Achebe, they looked for his rival Wole Soyinka who was far behind the Late Achebe and gave him the Noble Prize thinking that would provoke hard feelings on Late Chinue Achebe.

Before then, nobody from Africa had won the award, and it was after Late Chinue Achebe criticized them that they decided to give it to Wole Soyinka. The Late Chinue Achebe was well known in the world than Wole Soyinka in everything.

Wole Soyinka won simply because he is better.

Personally, i would have preferred Achebe to win, as i have read all of his books, but the gods(oyinbo people)voted, and they voted Soyinka. I know a lot of people had called them bigots, since an Ibo man did not win.

But the best in the literary world, judged by the literary experts won clean and fair.

Na who pass sabi book. Na the champion get sense pass.

The cry baby of nigeria has started again,this time, they have taken their cry to international level.every body is always victimasing and marginalinazing the ibos.

Chinua achebe still stands out as the best writer
'Weather oyibo give am price or not'
He writes explicitly,naturally using words all can comprehend in an intriguing style..

Am yet to see another of his kind

Ona don start this ona Igbo and Yoruba thing again ba? Make ona get sense abeg. The best person won. Shikena!

TopGee:
Probably most people don't know the reason why Wole Soyinka was given Noble Prize Award. It was obvious that the Late Chinue Achebe was the favourite to win Noble Prize ahead of Wole Soyinka but Chinue Achebe was denied the award because he was the only person in Africa that stood and criticized the Western countries of been biased in giving award. He told them that in giving award, they should not only judge based on their {Western}perception of writing, but they should also look at it based on African perception.

This did not go down well with the Western countries who knew that the Late Chinue Achebe had exposed their biased judgement. So, to punish Chinue Achebe, they looked for his rival Wole Soyinka who was far behind the Late Achebe and gave him the Noble Prize thinking that would provoke hard feelings on Late Chinue Achebe.

Before then, nobody from Africa had won the award, and it was after Late Chinue Achebe criticized them that they decided to give it to Wole Soyinka. The Late Chinue Achebe was well known in the world than Wole Soyinka in everything.

You think the Noble Prize for literature is some kind of beauty contest?
Keep believing your self-soothing yarns.

omoelesa:
The cry baby of nigeria has started again,this time, they have taken their cry to international level.every body is always victimasing and marginalinazing the ibos.

abi o... .I tire for them o

HungerBAD:
Wole Soyinka won simply because he is better.

Personally, i would have preferred Achebe to win, as i have read all of his books, but the gods(oyinbo people)voted, and they voted Soyinka. I know a lot of people had called them bigots, since an Ibo man did not win.

But the best in the literary world, judged by the literary experts won clean and fair.

GBAM! E0D.

If they like let them say because Chinua Achebe belongs to the igbo tribe, he was denied his "right"...Perpetual wailers!

TopGee:
[s]Probably most people don't know the reason why Wole Soyinka was given Noble Prize Award. It was obvious that the Late Chinue Achebe was the favourite to win Noble Prize ahead of Wole Soyinka but Chinue Achebe was denied the award because he was the only person in Africa that stood and criticized the Western countries of been biased in giving award. He told them that in giving award, they should not only judge based on their {Western}perception of writing, but they should also look at it based on African perception.

This did not go down well with the Western countries who knew that the Late Chinue Achebe had exposed their biased judgement. So, to punish Chinue Achebe, they looked for his rival Wole Soyinka who was far behind the Late Achebe and gave him the Noble Prize thinking that would provoke hard feelings on Late Chinue Achebe.

Before then, nobody from Africa had won the award, and it was after Late Chinue Achebe criticized them that they decided to give it to Wole Soyinka. The Late Chinue Achebe was well known in the world than Wole Soyinka in everything[/s].

Nonsense!

Let Chinua Achebe rest in peace, pls.

Why the fight.....soyinka and achebe were good friends

We Nigerian literature students know that Soyinka is no match for Achebe.

omoelesa:
The cry baby of nigeria has started again,this time, they have taken their cry to international level.every body is always victimasing and marginalinazing the ibos.

Cry Babies of Africa .....here we go AGAIN!!

omoelesa:
The cry baby of nigeria has started again,this time, they have taken their cry to international level.every body is always victimasing and marginalinazing the ibos.

OP has obviously never heard of Toni Morrison - Howard educated writer, editor and chronicler of 'Black Power' socio-political commentary. With limited exposure, it is clear that he/she has also never heard of Derek Walcott's writing (poetry) on the anti-colonial struggles.

Who said the 'victim industrial complex' is not real?

azzima:
Cry Babies of Africa .....here we go AGAIN!!

Reason is simple. Achebe was an activists and uncompromising but Soyinka was a puppet and willing to compromise or should I say "betray"

the best person won
QED

*Chinua achebe didn't win the nobel prize yet he is africas greatest writer of all time.
*Chinua achebe didn't win the nobel prize yet the european and americans accorded him the grandfather of modern african literature.
*Chinua achebe didn't win the nobel prize yet he is the only african whose book is in the list of 100 most sought after book in the history of the world.
Wole soyinka is also good but nobel prize is not everything,if it was everything he wouldn't have lost out in the post of professor of poetry in oxford university to someone who haven't won man booker's prize talkless of nobel prize.
Nobel prize is a prize issued by norwegian and swedes govt. to outstanding individuals in various field every year.
Chinua criticised conrad for his discrimination of other races,he did it without relenting because he knows his name have been written in 'SANDS OF TIME'.

IdiAmin1:
Reason is simple. Achebe was an activists and uncompromising but Soyinka was a puppet and willing to compromise or should I say "betray"

oponu

EastLebanon:
*Chinua achebe didn't win the nobel prize yet he is africas greatest writer of all time.
*Chinua achebe didn't win the nobel prize yet the european and americans accorded him the grandfather of modern african literature.
*Chinua achebe didn't win the nobel prize yet he is the only african whose book is in the list of 100 most sought after book in the history of the world.
Wole soyinka is also good but nobel prize is not everything,if it was everything he wouldn't have lost out in the post of professor of poetry in oxford university to someone who haven't won man booker's prize talkless of nobel prize.
Nobel prize is a prize issued by norwegian and swedes govt. to outstanding individuals in various field every year.
Chinua criticised conrad for his discrimination of other races,he did it without relenting because he knows his name have been written in 'SANDS OF TIME'.

yimu

Am not trying to abuse Yorubas, and I have not done that before, but I'm just trying to put straight the record.

smh

TopGee:
Am not trying to abuse Yorubas, and I have not done that before, but I'm just trying to put straight the record.

Your post smell rivalry, if not why should you even stat this at all, the two men managed their differences well and the competition if at all it exist was healthy. But the rivalry of u fans or lemme say kinsmen as gone too far that i considered it as crying more than the bereaved. Now I'm waiting at how you'll prevent this from turning to Yoruba vs Igbo, its already happening. I guess that's what u want to see too' I might be wrong sha

TopGee:
Am not trying to abuse Yorubas, and I have not done that before, but I'm just trying to put straight the record.

Why don't you broaden your horizon a bit, by travelling beyond your primordial base?

"The Literature of the Whole World" (1986- )
A new policy, long on its way, had a breakthrough in the 1980s. Again, it was an attempt to understand and carry out Nobel's intentions. His will had an international horizon, though it rejected any consideration for the nationality of the candidates: the most worthy should be chosen, "whether he be Scandinavian or not". The problem of surveying the literature of the whole world was, however, overwhelming and for a long time the Academy was, with justice, to be criticized for making the award a European affair. Wirsén expressly confined himself, as we saw, to "the great figures of Continental literature". In the 1920s it was certainly laid down that the prize was "intended for the literature of the whole world" but instruments to implement the idea were not available. In the 1930s, there were, on the whole, not even reasonable nominations from the Asiatic countries and the Academy had, at that time, not yet developed a scouting system of its own.

The Prize at last to Yasunari Kawabata in 1968 illustrates the exceptional difficulties in judging literature in non-European languages - this was a matter of seven years, involving four international experts. In 1984, however, Gyllensten declared that attention to non-European writers was gradually increasing in the Academy; attempts were being made "to achieve a global distribution". This includes measures to strengthen the competence for the international task.

[b]The picture of the Academy's Eurocentric policy was also significantly altered by the choices of Wole Soyinka from Nigeria in 1986 and Naguib Mahfouz from Egypt in 1988. Later practice shows the extension to Nadine Gordimer from South Africa, to Kenzaburo Oe from Japan, to Derek Walcott from St. Lucia in the West Indies, to Toni Morrison, the first Afro-American on the list, and to Gao Xingjian, the first laureate to write in Chinese. It is, however, important that nationality is not involved in the discussion. It has sometimes been suggested that the Academy should first decide upon a neglected language and then seek out the best candidate in it. Doing so would amount to politization of the Prize. Instead, efforts are being made to widen the horizon so that, in the course of the normal process of judgement, it is possible to weigh sometimes a prominent Nigerian dramatist and poet, sometimes an Egyptian novelist, against candidates from closer parts of the linguistic atlas – with all such evaluations continuing to be made on literary grounds. Critics have quite often neglected the Academy's striving for political integrity. Naturally, an international prize can have political effects but it must not, according to this jury, carry any political intention.
[/b]

The criteria discussed sometimes alternate, sometimes coincide. The spotlight on the unknown master Canetti in 1981 is thus followed by the laurel to the universally hailed "pioneer" of magic realism, Gabriel García Márquez, in 1982. Some Laureates answer both requirements, like Faulkner, who was not only "the great experimentalist among twentieth-century novelists" – the Academy was here fortunate enough to anticipate Faulkner's enormous importance to later fiction - but also, in 1950, a fairly unknown writer. On this occasion, the Prize, for once, could help a great innovator outside the limelight to reach his potential disciples as well as his due audience. The surprising Prize to Dario Fo in 1997 can also be said to have a double address: it was given to a genre which had earlier been left out in the cold but also to the brilliant innovator of that genre.

Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/themes/literature/espmark/

IdiAmin1:
Reason is simple. Achebe was an activists and uncompromising but Soyinka was a puppet and willing to compromise or should I say "betray"

Yeah, the same way he betrayed Nigeria and supported the Igbos during the civil war which eventually led him to prison. Too bad he will continue to read all this trash from idiots like you that he went to prison to defend.

OK ooo *

Who nobel prize don help? Op don baff!

I'm sure C. Achebe did not care about the colonizers' awards.

TopGee:
Probably most people don't know the reason why Wole Soyinka was given Noble Prize Award. It was obvious that the Late Chinue Achebe was the favourite to win Noble Prize ahead of Wole Soyinka but Chinue Achebe was denied the award because he was the only person in Africa that stood and criticized the Western countries of been biased in giving award. He told them that in giving award, they should not only judge based on their {Western}perception of writing, but they should also look at it based on African perception.

This did not go down well with the Western countries who knew that the Late Chinue Achebe had exposed their biased judgement. So, to punish Chinue Achebe, they looked for his rival Wole Soyinka who was far behind the Late Achebe and gave him the Noble Prize thinking that would provoke hard feelings on Late Chinue Achebe.

Before then, nobody from Africa had won the award, and it was after Late Chinue Achebe criticized them that they decided to give it to Wole Soyinka. The Late Chinue Achebe was well known in the world than Wole Soyinka in everything.

When soyinka won the award, how does it better the life of an average yoruba man. Achebe book things fall apart hold a record of best selling if am right, how does it stop some of your kin's men to stop selling gala or migrating enmass to other part of the country



the problem of today's youth is that you guys are too petty and very myopic in your reasoning. of all the challenges we have as a nation this gibberish is the best you can come out it.


our naira is falling by the day, propose an economic policy that includes fiscal and monetary, Advise government on Niger delta issues, what is the way forward on bokoharam, unemployment our not too impressive foreign policy. this are political and economic discourse I expect youth to debate and provide solutions but no we concerned our self with trivial issues of no importance.

I'm only here to read comments!

Pardon my nativity!

fr3do:
Who nobel prize don help? Op don baff!

I'm sure C. Achebe did not care about the colonizers' awards.

The Swedes (Nobel prize) colonized Nigeria but the Brits (Man Booker (International) Prize) did not?
Please point me to the school where you learnt to excel in inverted reasoning.

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IdiAmin1:
Reason is simple. Achebe was an activists and uncompromising but Soyinka was a puppet and willing to compromise or should I say "betray"

Stop showcasing ur foolery here, soyinka was jailed during Gown regime and he was sent on exile during abacha regime and all this happen for nothing but activism