sholay2011:

What's ur point?? Best thing to Africa?? Lie! Wat hapnd to Nelson Mandela?? Best thing that ever happened to Nigeria?? Not true. What happened to dose dt fought for d few things we still njoy today? Like Chief Obafemi Awolowo...Pls, celebrate him but dis unnecessary hype wud render his enviable achievement baseless.
And d truth is, as much as d book is quite unique, der re oda books nw dt re more interestin nd even beta. d book jst came at d right tym...time nd chance wrked for Achebe. If u dnt agree, imagine d book was jst publishd dis yr nd we wud see hw far it wud go. Best wishes to d literary giant.

u dis yoruba tribalist, STFU!!!! dis is no bleeping hype, he reps AFRICA!!! n he is the best of his kind, dont u get it?

kayusfit: What is with this over hyped Achebe sef? I know all the bloody igbos will be worshiping him now that their coward ojukwu is rotting in hell presently. Things fall apart ko, things fall for ground ni. Many great scholars in yoruba land and yet we no dey make noise. his books should be burnt and he should be tied and shot dead.

UR A BIG FOOL... U BLOODY YORUBAS ARE ALWAYS JEALOUS OF THE IGBOS... WE DONT DEPEND ON HYPES, BUT THE YORUBAS WLD DO ANYTHING TO HYPE THEIR FELLOW COWARD. AWOLOWO MY ASS, SOYINKA MY D**K... COWARDS aka OFE-MMANU PEOPLE.

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kayusfit: @bayoo; honestly i don't like the hype given to the damn book. Igbo's are bunch of loosers and since they don't have the chance to rule this country, let them rule over literature. If i have my was i will poison all the igbo's in the east. I hate them with passion and i pray boko haram will soon visit them and blow out the rotten carcass of their coward ojukwu

OFCOURSE, WE KNOW YORUBAS AS LAZY/COWARDS U CANT FIGHT THE IGBOS DAT IS WHY U WANT TO POISON US INSTEAD..which is VERY IMPOSSIBLE.. I PLEDGE MY HATE FOR THE YORUBA PEOPLE, I SHALL CONTINUE TO HATE U TILL Y'ALL DIE B4 ME. AMEN!!!

emmy04: OFCOURSE, WE KNOW YORUBAS AS LAZY/COWARDS U CANT FIGHT THE IGBOS DAT IS WHY U WANT TO POISON US INSTEAD..which is VERY IMPOSSIBLE.. I PLEDGE MY HATE FOR THE YORUBA PEOPLE, I SHALL CONTINUE TO HATE U TILL Y'ALL DIE B4 ME. AMEN!!!

Gross Display of Inferiority Complex...

You are a very dimwitted Bozo!...

emmy04: OFCOURSE, WE KNOW YORUBAS AS LAZY/COWARDS U CANT FIGHT THE IGBOS DAT IS WHY U WANT TO POISON US INSTEAD..which is VERY IMPOSSIBLE.. I PLEDGE MY HATE FOR THE YORUBA PEOPLE, I SHALL CONTINUE TO HATE U TILL Y'ALL DIE B4 ME. AMEN!!!

And one wonders what you've done so far to those you've come across....
Lots of stupid tribal f Ʊ c k I n g war-lords....(Yorubas ‎​Άŋϑ Ibos)

@bayooo, pls read the book again,no african book has been able to vividly capture the clash of the white men christianity of coming with the native host and religion except Things fall apart, Weep not child tried but you can't compared it to Things fall apart. It is more popular in the western world because they want to really read about our world and feeling back then from a local perspective not being told by White man.Achebe made them understand that Africans are not babaric and carnivals that kill at will, that the killing of the boy is a sacfrice which is not different from the human sacfrice to the Greek goddess.It tells whiteman misunderstanding of our culture that bring about ingnorant names and labels we were given, Thing fall apart is a masterpiece

@bayoo, I initially thought you are making objective augument but now I think you are biased by comparing Achebe with Ngingui waa Thiong of east african. His WEEP NOT CHILD can never compare to Thing fall Apart even though they wrote about the coming og the whiteman.Achebe is not the greatest african but one of the greatest in literature, like they said, the beautiful ones are not yet born,The great ones are still coming who knows,an african might discover the cure for AIDS.But you trying to rubish prof Achebe by comparing withose Authours is uncalled for.They can never compare,you can gently correct people that nobody is yet the greatest as the world is yet to end to take the roll call.

kayusfit: What is with this over hyped Achebe sef? I know all the bloody igbos will be worshiping him now that their coward ojukwu is rotting in hell presently. Things fall apart ko, things fall for ground ni. Many great scholars in yoruba land and yet we no dey make noise. his books should be burnt and he should be tied and shot dead.

Dude! I think that's tribalistic, we're all together here. I think its uncalled for. You could try writing your own masterpiece though and have it nominated as one of the most influntial books, then I guess we'll all keep quiet.

[size=8pt][/size]1 NIGERIA.
JUST TAKE A CLOSE LOOK @ your
iq's.
u cant even appliciate what you have.
why all these blood bath. we are suppose to hailing these great icon of our time.
well thank God some brains are still working, is just that 80% on nairaland are
eti kok kom[i]1 NIGERIA.
JUST TAKE A CLOSE LOOK @ your
iq's.
u cant even appliciate what you have.
why all these blood bath. we are suppose to hailing these great icon of our time.
well thank God some brains are still working, is just that 80% on nairaland are
eti kok kom[/i]1 NIGERIA.
JUST TAKE A CLOSE LOOK @ your
iq's.
u cant even appliciate what you have.
why all these blood bath. we are suppose to hailing these great icon of our time.
well thank God some brains are still working, is just that 80% on nairaland are
eti kok kom

I am not hapi that the yorubas want to poison Ibos
We know how you have been dealing with your own--Bola Ige, Awojobi, etc & recently Yekini, d LUTH prof/ d other fellow who died de last week end
Never dare come near Ibos. Ask Sam Aluko what happened to him after he granted interview where he tried to insult Ikemba

KaimaTee: @bayoo, I initially thought you are making objective augument but now I think you are biased by comparing Achebe with Ngingui waa Thiong of east african. His WEEP NOT CHILD can never compare to Thing fall Apart even though they wrote about the coming og the whiteman.Achebe is not the greatest african but one of the greatest in literature, like they said, the beautiful ones are not yet born,The great ones are still coming who knows,an african might discover the cure for AIDS.But you trying to rubish prof Achebe by comparing withose Authours is uncalled for.They can never compare,you can gently correct people that nobody is yet the greatest as the world is yet to end to take the roll call.

What's your point? For your information, Achebe was the one who recommended Weep Not Child, a book written while Ngingui was still a student at Makerere, to Heinemann for publication. That does not make Achebe a superstar or something else, he was just fortunate to be ahead as result of age factor. Comparison goes beyond one book is better than the other. The question we are trying to answer is who is the proverbial greatest author on African soil? My simple answer is available evidence does not suggest Achebe. That does not take anything away from Things Fall Apart or reduce Achebe's greatness.

But calling him the greatest, the first among equals because of one good book is nothing but exaggeration.

Go ahead and say the fellow in your mind. If you wont then keep away from this thread. We have heard enuf from you. Stop acting like hired spoiler. Cant you see you are on your own--dancing naked in the market place.

@bayoo,How many lion did you have to kill to answer lion killer? One good masterpiece is enough to give you the world and qualify you for one of the greatest.of all those named ,it is only one of their works that stood them out.you don't have to write hundreds of scraps and claim number.For your information both Achebe and Ngingu was both a student and young people before they wrote those books. As I said before, I read both and Weep Not child can never compare,eventhough it is equally good in its own right,that Achebe recommended it does not make it equal to Things fall apart.Ofcourse it is a good work from his fellow author that treats the same issue as him..he is one of the greatest.Things Fall Apart is a timepiece that would endure,for generations.it is one of the art that will offer future generations glimpse into the world of their ancestors.So don't be surprised that it may still be getting award from furture generations even after Achebe is long gone,and you will still complain and probably ask why they are still making noise about,and then our grand children will give him another post humus award ,well we can complain as we won't even be alive.peace.The point is that you be hearing the noise from that book for a long time to come.your children and children's children will hear it. It will outlive all of us.That is the mark of a great book and That is the work of a great author.

nsiadi: Go ahead and say the fellow in your mind. If you wont then keep away from this thread. We have heard enuf from you. Stop acting like hired spoiler. Cant you see you are on your own--dancing naked in the market place.

Shut it! If you have nothing to contribute, move to the romance section and continue romanticizing my unclothedness. I don't care if it pains you or hurts you deeply, but the truth remains that Achebe, though one of the best African writers, is not the greatest. Deal with it.

KaimaTee: @bayoo,How many lion did you have to kill to answer lion killer? One good masterpiece is enough to give you the world and qualify you for one of the greatest.of all those named ,it is only one of their works that stood them out.you don't have to write hundreds of scraps and claim number.For your information both Achebe and Ngingu was both a student and young people before they wrote those books. As I said before, I read both and Weep Not child can never compare,eventhough it is equally good in its own right,that Achebe recommended it does not make it equal to Things fall apart.Ofcourse it is a good work from his fellow author that treats the same issue as him..he is one of the greatest.Things Fall Apart is a timepiece that would endure,for generations.it is one of the art that will offer future generations glimpse into the world of their ancestors.So don't be surprised that it may still be getting award from furture generations even after Achebe is long gone,and you will still complain and probably ask why they are still making noise about,and then our grand children will give him another post humus award ,well we can complain as we won't even be alive.peace.The point is that you be hearing the noise from that book for a long time to come.your children and children's children will hear it. It will outlive all of us.That is the mark of a great book and That is the work of a great author.

Call him Lion killer, or call him Ogbuefi if you like, call him one of the greatest, or one of the best, I don't care and have no issue with such designations. But calling him the best contradicts available evidence.

I can't call Soyinka for instance the best novelist in Africa despite the rare excellence displayed in the Man Died, a collection of prison notes. But he is a versatile writer who have written a number of plays (by the way he won Nobel prize for fashioning the drama of existence, i.e largely for the drama genre of literature), collections of poems and poetry and some novels-autobiographical and fictions. Achebe trumpet is blown largely on Things Fall Apart, other works are next to nothing. Though he has some poems to his credit, he lacks the type of versatility desirable in a typical first among equals.

That's why I keep wondering why people are labeling him the best, the greatest, the superstar when in all sincerity and in all essential points, he is very far, even on African soil based on overwhelming avalanche of evidence, from such a designation. A good book will announce you to the world, that you have arrived, but unfortunately can not make you the best. Consistency, versatility and a number of other factors are needed to win the crown.


When I was in school, I did not have the highest scores in all courses I offered, but still graduated the best because I was most consistent, most versatile and most knowledgeable among my peers. That Achebe is a master story teller, a good novelist does not make him the master poet of the continent (Niyi Osundare would challenge him on that), or the master dramatist (of course we all know the genius). So, how can Achebe be the best? It does not add up.

Yoruba people their jealousy is too much,they dont even like themselves talk-less of other people abi dey put curse on that tribe

@bayooo
You have the right to your opinion about Achebe just like those that gave him the honour and millions of people all over the world who credit him as being the best also have the right to their opinion. They say that "one man's food is another man's poinson". So, it's best you respect popular wisdom while maintaining your own position on the person of Chinua Achebe.

ak47mann: Yoruba people their jealousy is too much,they dont even like themselves talk-less of other people abi dey put curse on that tribe

, curse no dey, na over sabi dey worry us!

afam4eva: @bayooo
You have the right to your opinion about Achebe just like those that gave him the honour and millions of people all over the world who credit him as being the best also have the right to their opinion. They say that "one man's food is another man's poinson". So, it's best you respect popular wisdom while maintaining your own position on the person of Chinua Achebe.

Gbam! Yeah, it's a matter of opinion.

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