Comments on: Achebe Honoured http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50373 Brian Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:52:44 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50373 I think what I meant to say above is that Achebe doesn't go out of his way to court the western media. Not to imply that he was a recluse or something like that. I think what I meant to say above is that Achebe doesn’t go out of his way to court the western media. Not to imply that he was a recluse or something like that.

]]> By: Brian http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50371 Brian Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50371 I think Achebe's lack of a long overdue Nobel Prize also related to the fact that he is not particularly media-genic and tends to stay out of the media spotlight for the most part. I don't think there's any need to badmouth Soyinka, who I appreciate as well. But Achebe is the father of the modern African novel and a brilliant essayist. He is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century of any nationality and it's a crime against literature that he hasn't been so honored yet by the Nobel committee. I think Achebe’s lack of a long overdue Nobel Prize also related to the fact that he is not particularly media-genic and tends to stay out of the media spotlight for the most part.

I don’t think there’s any need to badmouth Soyinka, who I appreciate as well. But Achebe is the father of the modern African novel and a brilliant essayist. He is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century of any nationality and it’s a crime against literature that he hasn’t been so honored yet by the Nobel committee.

]]> By: Beauty http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50231 Beauty Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:18:24 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50231 <strong>Chinua Achebe, wrote 24 years ago;</strong> <em>to suggest that Nigerians are fundamentally different from any other people in the world. Nigerians are corrupt because the system under which they live today makes corruption easy and profitable; they will cease to be corrupt when corruption is made difficult and inconvenient. The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.</em> Chinua Achebe, wrote 24 years ago;

to suggest that Nigerians are fundamentally different from any other people in the world. Nigerians are corrupt because the system under which they live today makes corruption easy and profitable; they will cease to be corrupt when corruption is made difficult and inconvenient. The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

]]> By: Beauty http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50191 Beauty Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:16:33 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50191 love the BeautY@, hmmm, another name change might be on the cards but hey, “Name ist Schall und Rauch.” (Goethe’s Faust), loosely translated, that corresponds to Shakespeare’s “What’s in a name?” Ask Achebe. love the BeautY@, hmmm, another name change might be on the cards but hey, “Name ist Schall und Rauch.” (Goethe’s Faust), loosely translated, that corresponds to Shakespeare’s “What’s in a name?” Ask Achebe.

]]> By: Beauty http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50190 Beauty Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:15:27 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50190 love the BeautY@, hmmm, another name change might be on the cards but hey, “Name ist Schall und Rauch.” (Goethe’s Faust), loosely translated, that corresponds to Shakespeare’s “What’s in a name?” love the BeautY@, hmmm, another name change might be on the cards but hey, “Name ist Schall und Rauch.” (Goethe’s Faust), loosely translated, that corresponds to Shakespeare’s “What’s in a name?”

]]> By: Beauty http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50188 Beauty Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:12:50 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50188 Sokari, Chinua Achebe is worth more than the sum of those "owanbe nobel prizes". Net result from those are more strife, hate and warfare in our world today. To have a thing of beauty and of life, think Chinua Achebe. Thank you, Achebe. Sokari, Chinua Achebe is worth more than the sum of those “owanbe nobel prizes”. Net result from those are more strife, hate and warfare in our world today. To have a thing of beauty and of life, think Chinua Achebe. Thank you, Achebe.

]]> By: Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50185 Sokari Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:10:24 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50185 BeautY@ I am so happy to see you are back - talk soon I hope BeautY@ I am so happy to see you are back – talk soon I hope

]]> By: Beauty http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50181 Beauty Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:01:59 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-50181 For the students of life (literature), because stories are about life and the people that give us those honourable tales are special. This Achebe piece taken from "Another Africa" is very special. <em>Even the sketchiest telling of this story such as I have done here still reads like a fairy tale, not because it did not happen but because we have become all too familiar with the Africa of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," its predecessors going back to the sixteenth century and its successors today in print and electronic media. This tradition has invented an Africa where nothing good happens or ever happened, an Africa that has not been discovered yet and is waiting for the first European visitor to explore it and explain it and straighten it up.</em> For the students of life (literature), because stories are about life and the people that give us those honourable tales are special. This Achebe piece taken from “Another Africa” is very special. Even the sketchiest telling of this story such as I have done here still reads like a fairy tale, not because it did not happen but because we have become all too familiar with the Africa of Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” its predecessors going back to the sixteenth century and its successors today in print and electronic media. This tradition has invented an Africa where nothing good happens or ever happened, an Africa that has not been discovered yet and is waiting for the first European visitor to explore it and explain it and straighten it up.

]]> By: Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-49600 Sokari Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:37:14 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-49600 Rethabile@probably. He has never been recognised like other post colonial writers and one wonders whether his critique of Conrad thereafter in his work has been the price. You know how these people work. I believe ethnic Nigerian politics also have played a contribution to his marginalisation ie being an Igbo though he has never in my opinion been a secessionist. as for me I would have chosen him 10 times over Soyinka who speaks in Euro language whereas Acebe speaks in the langugage of the people. Rethabile@probably. He has never been recognised like other post colonial writers and one wonders whether his critique of Conrad thereafter in his work has been the price. You know how these people work. I believe ethnic Nigerian politics also have played a contribution to his marginalisation ie being an Igbo though he has never in my opinion been a secessionist. as for me I would have chosen him 10 times over Soyinka who speaks in Euro language whereas Acebe speaks in the langugage of the people.

]]> By: Rethabile http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-49594 Rethabile Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:27:51 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/06/achebe_honoured.html#comment-49594 Pity the man has never had a Nobel Prize. He's a brilliant writer who is the father of the modern African novel. Was it because his words denounced the West? I'm happy for him and for African writing as a whole. Pity the man has never had a Nobel Prize. He’s a brilliant writer who is the father of the modern African novel. Was it because his words denounced the West?

I’m happy for him and for African writing as a whole.

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