“I’m Lucky,” Says Chinua Achebe, As He Receives Gish Prize

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Ojinmadu, arusi Iheala kugue gi, anumanu. May God forgive you, since you do not know what you are doing.

May God bless Nigeria and all its ethnics groups and tribes.

Have a nice day.

Gboluwaga.

Now you're clearing up your identity crisis? Are you also anonymous of 23rd october? If so you wrote the worst comment possible by a human being - ie, that 'igbos were justifiably slaughtered'. Not even the Nazis were this wicked, as they've apologised for Jewish suffering. Please reflect on what's going on in your heart.
Even if you don't go to church please adopt some ethical humanism to avoid coming out with this genocidal hatred.

I've recently read his book about the British protected child. It's brilliant (like all the rest). But it helps you understand our grandparents' and parents' generation. It helps us understand the awful attitude of the British towards Africa.

it is good that you have finally assume your yoruba origin. Be brave dont continue to portray yorubas to be cowards. I am your father, if you apologize to me I will forgive you.
Dont stress that your little brain to deceive people here. you changed your name to opc tomorrow another thing. I will still know you because I gave you life asked your mother about Ojinmadu she will tell you.

@Ota-Amu-Ebule you know I was thinking the same thing. LOL.

And BTW is it me or is something amiss with Okey Ndibe? Hmmmm, anybody know what I'm thinking.....

LONG LIVE CHINUA ACHEBE!!!

WOW. Pere so you are the same person as opc?! Wonders will never end. You even have the guts to accuse someone else of disguising with different names. One day you are Yoruba, the next day you are Ijaw, you two-faced bastard.

Anyhow Pere deserves whatever name he gets called. His sole purpose is to insult Igbos on this forum. Anybody who doesn't know that must be new. He has contributed nothing meaningful on this forum. To hell with him.

LONG LIVE CHINUA ACHEBE!!!

Nobel laureates award is not ordinary award to be given to a story teller. As a writer you need to demonstrate your ability to experiment with words of the language you are using just like Prof. Wole Shoyinka.

Chudi:

You are wrong to say that I derailed from the topic. I waded in that Ojinmadu should apologize to Pere, because I think the former's remark is off line. Please go and read my comment. I think you are too hasty to pass judgement!

Gboluwaga.

Achebe is among only a few Nigerians that are respected in a world where being a Nigerian carries suspicion/stigma. We should all join hands and celebrate this man who has been consistant since we first heard his name. As a Nigerian he makes me proud. I'm sick and tired hearing about corrupt leaders, 419ners and so on. Once in a while a positive figure comes along and makes us proud. Carry on Mr Achebe.

That lady dancer in the picture should stop teasing and tantalizing our honourable Prof.He may be sitting on a wheel chair but his working tools are effective and alive as ever! Take it easy on Prof lady.

@Nigerian boy said: "I have check through all the comments made here he was the first to throw insult to igbos and was actually the first to call Ojinmadu names." Can you quote what I said exactly about Igbos in this forum? Can you quote where I first started calling Ojinmadu names? I must say here that I am appalled at how people like you and Ojinmadu drag Igbos into being seen as tribalists. For your information, I am not a low life like you, and I have not lost my sense of decency like you. And I have every reason to believe that you are still the same Ojinmadu disguising with different names.If I had thrown insults at Igbos, I am sure you would not be the only one in this forum to react. You seem to me a useless criminal craving attention. You are nothing but a bastard who is so blinded by tribalism that you have lost your sense of decency and reasoning. To hell with you and your Ojinmadu.

@everyone and SR, please, go back and read my comment about this icon we all come here to celebrate. But as soon as this gorilla called Ojinmadu saw my name, he started attacking Ijaws even suggesting I was brought up by Yorubas hence extended his tribal aspersions on Yorubas. I have no problems with Igbos, Yorubas or Hausas, but for useless people like Ojinmadu to come and brew ethnic terror here, he will be resisted by whatever means possible. If you dont want Ijaw to celebrate Achebe, why not tell SR to allow only Igbos to have access to SR? People like you have shown that you are nothing but a criminal crawling the pages of the web seeking opportunity to commit Internet fraud. And to let you know, claiming you fucked someone from behind openly portrays what kind of low-life you are. You have demonstrated that you deserve not this kind of informed medium but belong to the jungle where your fathers(gorilla) live.

Pere deserves whatever Ojinmadu called him, it is like you came new to this forum. This bastard called pere have not make any meaningful comment apart from insulting the igbos.
I have check through all the comments made here he was the first to throw insult to igbos and was actually the first to call Ojinmadu names.
What thing with you yorubas is that you know how to start a fight, but to weak to fight to the end, only one blow you have started crying.

Often times I wonder the likes of Pere, Jacko, Ojinmadu, and Gboluwaga found themselves on the shores of USA. These people always derail from the topic, and never for once focused on the issue of discussion. For instance Achebe is the topic here, but read what these people are saying. Has no bearing whatsover. Back in high school, we call it OP (out-of-point). US visa was suppose to be for people who want to pursue academics to better understand and enlighten their world view. I guess those days are gone. Its a pity!

I agree with Gboluwaga that your remarks about Pere is way out of line. Please, offering him a simple apology won't hurt you. Lets all put aside this ethnic bigotry that has kept us all in the dark for ages. we need to start treating each other on an individual basis. The ruling class does not see each other as Igbo, yoruba, hausa, or Ijaw, rather they see each other as "looters in crime". They share the loot together, while we are busy castigating each other.
Nigeria is 50yrs, have any body asked where we will be in the next 50yrs? One thing nobody can deny is that we ( all ethnic groups) have something dreadfully in common, and that is POVERTY! I don't care if it is hausa, yoruba or ibo in power, poverty knows no tribe.
Let us stop the hate, and think of how we can help uplift the poor masses of the country, irrespective of tribal affiliation. Once again, Ojinmadu, apology to pere won't hurt. This is a period of celebration and not quarrelling. Thanks Gboluwaga for trying your best at reducing friction on this matter. God bless every one of us!

Gboluwaga, arusi Iheala kugbue gi, anumanu. Even though your name sound like one of the demons in hell.Let me still waste my time to reply you.
Did I call pere bastard, since when did you become pere's spoke's man.
you should be an idiot to ask me to apologize to that nobody, that son of a prostitute.
I have never have time to read all the trash that you have been posting here, please I will advise you to keep writing the rubbish that you are good at, and not to play good man.

Ojinmadu:

I think your remark is off the line by calling Pere a bastard and to even claim that you had the canal knowledge of his/her mother. You really owe Pere an apology. Please keep this off this page. We have enough problems with tribalistic remarks. This is about our famous Achebe, and let us celebrate him.

May God bless every tribe/ethnic tribe in Nigeria. And I hope that someday soon, we will use our talents and diversity to uplift Nigeria.

Gboluwaga.

Ojinmdadu apology accepted but next time use condom.
@pere you should learn how to respect your father lol!

@ Ojinmadu, your comment has always projected what kind of person you are. We need no prophet to know that you are a low-life bastard. I sincerely believe Igbos dont behave like you do. You seem to me an outcast(osu). Henceforth, I dont think there is any need responding to a low-brain illiterate like you. You should be ignored. I wonder what Ijaws did to your father or mother that you hate them so much. For Yorubas, you should sort out your problem with them, after all you people are the majority in the south. But let me tell you, your tribal sentiment will do you no good but harm, a word is enough for the wise.

Can we celebrate Nigeria and not our respective races. Enough of Prof Emengwali and sectionalisation. If we have persons who win awards lets celebrate, if we have fraudsters lets expose. The way we are going we would start going to Anambra, Imo, Orlu in our bid to tribalise issues. Professor Achebe is a Nigerian we celebrate him. Professor Emengwali is a Nigerian we celebrate his achievements. Its time we unite.

Prof..you are not lucky. You earned it all the way. I remember vividly how your book "Things fall apart" impacted our intellects and our sense of being Africans those days. You are not Mr Goodluck Jonathan. You are Chinua Achebe. You earned it sir.

Chinualumogu Achebe, you are one Igbo man I look up to! You are the known lone voice that has stayed steadfast and true to what you beleive in! Thank God you have not submerged yourself in the polluted, corrupt and evil waters of Nigeria.
Thank God you have remained yourself even when Obasanjo (The evil monster), wanted to buy your decency and honour with his and Nigerian USELESS award!
I told the world when you refused to accept Obasanjo yeye worthless award, and some sick minds was wondering, why. You deserved better recognition, and that is the recognition of your people who knows your worth.

Ibu Ebubedike Ndiigbo!

I like you. Tell them abeg.

Sahara, this is the kind of news I expect you to be reporting and not junk and lazy journalism as speculative news.
For as long as I have known you, you have promoted the Nigeria brand.
Kudos

Contrast this humility with www.emeagwali.com. This man has achieved so much and people blow his trumpet, not the other way round.
I recall the saying that empty vessels make the most noise. Emeagwali has featured all his family pictures, yet not one detail of his so called inventions and patents. if he actually invented anything, his website will be full of it, not his family pictures. lol.

I have to apologized to SR reader for giving birth to you. I don't know that sleeping with a woman from the back can have adverse effect as has been so far demonstrated by you.
It is my fault when I met your mother as a prostitute at Bundu waterside, I dont know it will produce an imbecile like you after I fuck her from the back. even though your mother cannot lay claim whom your father is, thats why you alternate between yoruba and Ijaw.
The truth is that a yoruba man brought you up, but you claim Ijaw because your mother is from Abonema.

Prof Achebe has done something that will outlive time: the stories this man has told the world collectively form an epistle that will continue evangelizing generations for thousands of years to see Africa for who we really are before the advent of the "Whiteman". In my personal interview with him at Nsukka in the 90s, he stated the concept behind his stories and the write-up I made from that personal interview billed for our students union magazine in my UNN days is very apt in this circumstance of further recognition of this man's collosal height,

"“Achebe is not just a writer; he is an institution”. The above statement, which drew a standing ovation at C.E.C., Niger Room during the preliminary lecture of the February 1990 International symposium on Achebe, was made by Profesor Izevbaye of the Univesity of Ibadan. The big question is, what institution does this man represent?

Professor Chinua Achebe represents a “missionary institution” that is paradoxically not biblically based but channeled towards a psychological reorientation of the African’s concept of himself and the world’s view of him – through the written word. Achebe sees the totatlity of his writings as the dissemination of this African message of renascence. He is a self-styled “evangelist” who states that just the same way the missionaries came to Africa with their story of the true God and by implication asserting that Africa had no civilization of any sort, so has he and other Africans of similar disposition had time to reflect on that assertion and have come back to tell the world that it is not true.

How successful this mission has been is testified to by people of different races. A white American woman whose view of the African had been distorted by negative stories had with tears in her eyes said to Professor Achebe after reading one of his books: "You have changed my life”. Achebe asserts that there is a notable change in awareness of the meaning of Africa. The 25th of May was declared Chinua Achebe Day in a proclamation issued by the President of Manhattan, David Dinkins (now Mayor of New York) as a further impact of the “Achebe mission”."

Need we say more of this timeless giant.

CHINUALUMOGU ACHEBE!
NWOKE OGIDI!
WE HAIL THEE!
YOU HAVE MADE IGBOS TRULY PROUD AND NOT COLLECTING ANY YEYE NIGERIAN AWARDS MAKE YOU MORE HONOURABLE!

I have analyzed the works, lives and accomplishments of most Nobel laureates in Literature, and I have found little equaled to Achebe's. Yet they dont want to give him the prize. Anyway as Achebe himself will say, when confronted with the question, in far back 1988, "Writing is not like a wrestling competition, where you will get knocked down and the other declared a winner."

Congrats my Role Model!