To ask me to apologize to Cornelius and then keep silent when I challenge you to consider what Cornelius earlier said does not suggest justice.
It suggests hypocrisy to demand one person should apologize and then keep silent when you are asked to consider what the other person stated earlier.
I dont see how you can explain that away.
Anybody who wants a forum that is insult free needs to play an active role in ensuring it. Be quick to criticize bad behavour.
Finally, please, please, stop telling me you admire anything I do. I am better off without the kind of admiration from you and Michael Afolayan.
Your claims of admiration always come with unjust assessments.
I am more comfortable with the unqualified attack of an Ogbunweze, an Ikhide or a Kingsley Nnabuagha.
I am not interested in snide admirers.
I am not here to court anybody's support, admiration or approval. I simply do what I consider my duty to myself and to societies I belong to.
If you see no value in an extensive discussion of a subject of such gravity as the osu issue, tell us why and not engage in snide remarks. If you have any point to make on the Soyinka issue, state why as Aluko has done.If you cannot take the trouble to state and justify your position, why bother commenting?
Finally, pleases, spare me your attention with claims of admiration. It is not welcome. It is against my interests.
Toyin
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:10 PM, <shina73_1999@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Dialogical Etiquette
Toyin,
I have only something to say on what you aptly titled 'dialogical etiquette'.
First, I don't think discussion should degenerate to the level of abusive language. Pardon me, but I belong to the old school in this regard. The last time the elders on this forum began the insult game, I was appalled. It seems to me that you don't consider it demeaning to trade insults.
Second, are you justified in entering the gutter with someone who considers it appropriate to address you from that dishonourable position? Does that count as justice? If someone considers it below him/herself to hurl insults at me, I promptly keep quiet. If I reply with further insults, does that serve the purpose of the dialogical etiquette/ethic?
Third, I don't need to say anything to the person who began the 'insult war' since I only care about the person who may be provoked to want to reply. In other words, if you receive insults, can you be so magnanimous as to allow the insults to die with you rather than being the source of its escalation and hence the consequent bastardisation of the noble and serious mandate of this forum? Believe, your claim thatdoes not make any sense to me. Insults should not in any way detract from saying what you want to say.
"If I am not prepared to defend myself vigorously, I would not be able to speak my mind on controversial issues the way I do"
Lastly, let me reiterate the words of my Olooko (name sake-Oga Michael Afolayan), I respect your argumentative resilience...except when you go on and on and on like you are doing with the Osu stuff or when you shoot off on something that deserves deeper thought like the Soyinka and Achebe comparison.
The insult game irritate me, and makes those who engage in it appear lowly in my estimation. You don't need to agree with me on this. Yet, we need a dialogical etiquette and not in your template.
Be well brother!
Adeshina AfolayanSent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTNFrom: OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <tvade3@gmail.com>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:34:09 +0000To: usaafricadialogue<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>ReplyTo: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.comSubject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: NigerianID | Bolaji Aluko Re: TOLA ADENIYI ON ACHEBE!!!It seems Afolayan's response below was sent to this group, so I respond through this group.
On Dialogical Etiquette
I would be pleased if this can be verified. It does not look true to me-
'You have [turned] around to call fellow discussants "bastards" and engulf them with other street names.'
If that claim can be substantiated, I will respond to it.
Is Afolayan perhaps one of those who is happy to see people throw unprovoked insults at Adepoju and when Adepoju attacks them in return, you complain but make sure that you say nothing about the person who initiated the offense?
Adepoju is scholarly but is also a person who gives to you what you give him. He will not insult you. But if you insult him, he could insult you in return. That is a means of self protection in the jungle of online groups.
Some people , particularly the pro-Biafra right wing brigade, have made it their business to insult Adepoju without provocation. Kingsley Nnnabuagha made it his business for much of last year to attack me anytime I made any comment on Nigerian centred groups. He severally attacked my family. All because he did not like my views on Biafra. No one defended me. So, this year, I defended myself. Kingsley has avoided me since then.
On Edo centred groups some years ago, some Bini people would recurrently degenerate into vicious insults when they became overwhelmed with my polemical perseverance. I was shocked and resigned from those groups. I returned and gave it to them in their own coin. No one tries that again.They leave me alone.
If I am not prepared to defend myself vigorously, I would not be able to speak my mind on controversial issues the way I do.
When Ikhide and Ogbunweze recently directed insults at me without provocation on this group, I read no response, no protection of me from Afolayan. On what moral platform does such a person then pontificate about justice?
I chose to sidestep the behavior of Ikhide and Ogbunweze on those occasions because I saw them as more ridiculous than serious.
When Cornelius recently responded to my polite disagreement to him with a rude animalistic reference, where was Afolayan? On a fence of non-vision?
Adeshina Afolayan and Michael Afolayan ( same or different people?) challenged my response in kind to Cornelius. 'Did you read what he wrote earlier' ? I responded. They then retreated into silence. Is that justice?
On Soyinka's and Achebe's Private Lives
On Soyinka's private life. I have followed the subject for years. The sources I have given are clear. His wife's interview is something I kept as a record.
I have also followed Achebe's private life, both of these figures to the degree I am able at a level of general interest.
Is it relevant? Yes. It is part of the totality of Soyinka and Achebe.
Our people are not familiar with the culture of total biographical assessment practiced in the West. You examine every corner of the person's life and make an assessment. That is the kind of thing I am doing.
One can even go further to examine the relationship of the artists private life to his work. Is Soyinka's greatness and versatility related to his mercurial erotic temperament? Is Achebe's more prosaic erotic persona related to his more predictable style of writing?
Such questions are not new in Western scholarship since Freud. Its just that to Nigerians, such issues are almost taboo.
The powerful book on the life of one of the greatest modern scientists, A Life of Erwin Schrodinger, takes pains to discuss his unconventional relationship where he kept both a mistress and wife in the same house, so as to give a rounded picture of the man.
Purely valoristic and purely public centred biographies are both outmoded and overly limited.
On Soyinka and Achebe in the Global Canon
I describe Achebe as great. I describe Soyinka as greater.
It is possible to present Achebe in terms of the same context of global comparison, the cumulative, incantatory invocation of art that I did with Soyinka but here, I was reacting to the way Adeniyi tried to denigrate Soyinka in such a comprehensive way.
I will try to post here my various Achebe evaluations over the years once I retrieve them from my email archives.
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toyinOn Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Michael Afolayan <mafolayan@yahoo.com> wrote:
Toyin - You never cease to baffle my intellectual curiosity. Sometimes you would make some of the most profound intellectual contributions and at other times bring in scary and questionable submissions. You have projected Cambridge-styled scholarly provocations and then turn around to call fellow discussants "bastards" and engulf them with other street names. This time around you mixed a serious scholarly discourse with roadside gossip, talking of Soyinka's unsubstantiated private life as if you were privy to it. You then threw around names of legendary writers and reverted into telling your readers about the greatness of Soyinka's works and Chinua Achebe's near-mediocrity, all in one breath. Please be aware that it is the responsibility of the critic to be deep, objective, descriptive, and fair but I am not sure where to place your position at all. It's not a good thing when someone of my age does not know where to place someone, especially a critic's perspective. I know Dr. Ojo's position; I know "Vicious Animal"'s style, and can place many people on these fora along certain paradigms, but I am still trying to figure you out. Forgive if I am reading you wrong; it might be that your level of sophistication transcends my rudimentary analytical skills, but I think you can use a
little bit of consistency. It would make you a whole lot more productive. Thanks for listening! MichaelCc: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>; "OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com" <OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com>; "NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com" <NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>; naijaintellects <naijaintellects@googlegroups.com>; "nigerianid@yahoogroups.com" <nigerianID@yahoogroups.com>; Ra'ayi <Raayiriga@yahoogroups.com>; USAAfrica Dialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>; Yan Arewa <YanArewa@yahoogroups.com>Subject: Re: NigerianID | Bolaji Aluko Re: TOLA ADENIYI ON ACHEBE!!!
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Why We Should Weigh Achebe and Soyinka With Each Other
I think it is helpful to weigh Achebe and Soyinka with each other.
They both represent types of greatness and weighing them in relation to each other can help us better understand types of human achievement.
The Value of the Tola Adeniyi Essay and Reactions to it in Comparing Soyinka and Achebe
The Tola Adenity essay and the reactions to it help us in this.
These reactions rightly point out that he evokes Soyinka in negative terms without mentioning him, an absence all the more telling for projecting those qualities in lifestyle and art that Soyinka is associated with.
His essay achieves greater potency by its style of evocation without mentioning. It belongs in the canon of Soyinka and Achebe criticism.
I will never forget "For [ Achebe] , you do not need to grow a bush on your head or grow rodents in your hair to impress on the world that you are an artist or a writer", vividly evoking the Soyinkaesque cultivation of a white crown of hair and of chin, itself suggesting Soyinka's poem 'to My First White Hairs' which Chinwezu lambasted as obscurantist pretension in his famous critique of the Soyinka style of writing in African literature.
Adeniyi also does well to evoke, by indirection , Soyinka's quietly notorious sexual escapades, both actual and speculative, contrasting that with Achebe's prosaic personal erotic life.
My only problem with his essay is that he does not compare and contrast Soyinka and Achebe's lifelong styles of engagement with the Nigerian question.
Even though Adeniyi is all pro-Achebe and anti-Soyinka, and his trying to describe the greatest African writing without mentioning Soyinka is almost laughable, he helps to break the spell of silence about Soyinka's private life, a subject that needs to be discussed to help contextualize, place in perspective the persona and life of the great man, a greatness highlighted by his flaws,
Public and Private Achievement of Soyinka and Achebe
Achebe is a great writer but he is not in Soyinka's class in terms of both quality and volume.
Soyinka is a much more achieved public figure as writer, scholar and public intellectual than Achebe.
Achebe, on the other hand, is a much more successful family man.
Public Life
Achebe was not significantly engaged in participation in public social affairs beyond the Nigerian Civil War and his embassy with Soyinka and Clark to plead for an end to the cycle of bloodletting represented by executing coup plotters in the Vatsa case.
Soyinka, on the other hand, has played a central and controversial roles in Nigerian politics before and during the civil war and after and has paid a price for it, the most striking being his almost two year imprisonment during the war.
He was controversially involved in Babangida's govt, a move I see as flawed in legitimizing an illegal govt and as evoking the shortsightedness which Nigerians have suffered in relation to military govts but also as demonstrating the reinterpretation of his positions by a person who wants to respond to issues from a creative rather than stagnant position.
After that, Soyinka has been consistent as an insightful and courageous a critic of various govts as well as taking active part in various pro-democracy movements, the highlight of that being during the deadly days of the Abacha era that led him to flee the country under thereat of assassination, as he states.
Achebe, on the other hand, has chosen to play his role in Nigeria from a distance, by making comments from the US.That gave him some gravitas but his closing intervention that suggested an Igbo centered vision at the expense of Nigeria diluted that gravitas for many.
Soyinka is a much more achieved public figure as writer, scholar and public intellectual than Achebe.
Private, Family Life
Achebe, on the other hand, is a much more successful family man. His wife of many years is easily known. His two sons are also easily known, one having studied medicine at Cambridge and his wife publishing a book on the concept of children born and dying recurrently in repeated life cycles in Igbo culture, the equivalent of abiku in Yoruba culture.
Soyinka, on the other hand is known for a marital life that is less than enviable. His first wife, some decades ago, gave a bitter and poignant interview to a Nigerian gossip magazine, detailing accounts of Soyinka's extra-marital betrayals even with his own students of his daughter's ages. I did not see any response from Soyinka or any one else to that painfully graphic interview.
After his Nobel prize he married a much younger woman and none of his marriages has ever played a public role in his life. That is his character. It is difficult to point to any of his children because he is not a family man of the Achebe mould.
Literary and Scholarly Achievement
Appreciating Soyinka's works does not often proceed in the same way as that of Achebe.
For those who want immediate understanding when reading, they may see the Soyinka of the plays The Jero Plays; The Swamp Dwellers and The Strong Breed; the autobiographies A Voyage Around Essay; Ibadan: The Penkelemese Years and Ake : The Years of Childhood and some of his public speeches and a poem he composed for a company calender some years ago.
Those who want a bridge between the easier and yet powerful and the conceptually dense and ideationally stratospheric Soyinka can read his essay and poem The Credo of Being and Nothingness and his play Death and the King's Horseman. These works are readily accessible and embody an aspect of the ideational and stylistic unforgettableness of the master.
Those who want to penetrate into the arcana of the uncompromising Soyinka who may be compared with the greatest writing in human history, the Soyinka who breathes the same air as those works in which humans have shaped their most profound understanding of existence, from the ancient Egyptian Book of Coming Forth by Day, also known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, to the Hindu Upanishads to the Bible, to the Jewish Zohar, to the Koran and Islamic mystical masterpieces of Ibn Arabi and Jalal ud din Rumi, down to the most modern masters in all cultures, from the ancient European masters Homer and Aeschylus, to the medieval achievement of Dante, to the Russian masters Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, to the more recent achievements of T.S. Eliot and Italo Calvino, to the vast scope of the various genres of literature from the Middle East, to South and North America, from Nahguib Mahfouz to Jorge Luis Borges, could read Soyinka's Myth, Literature and the African World, The Man Died, and A Shuttle in the Crypt, perhaps his three greatest works, covering essay, autobiography and poetry and move on to his various other writings in drama, poetry, prose and the novel.
I am not arguing that Soyinka is equal to all these writers. He does not have the sheer celestial bulk and scope of an Ibn Arabi, a Jalal ud din Rumi or a Dante. The Bible, the Koran, the Upanishads and the Zohar are in a different class altogether from all other literature, except the Hindu Mahabharata which is more a library than single book.
I see Soyinka as breathing the air the greatest writers breathe more often than Achebe. Having read almost all the works by both writers, I see Achebe as striking his most powerful notes principally in two works- Arrow of God and "The Madman" and to a lesser but very significant degree in some of his essays, such as "Language and the Destiny of Man", "The Igbo World and its Art" and "Chi in Igbo Cosmology" and his Okigbo essay "Dont Let Him Die".
Soyinka, on the other hand, is able to strike his most powerful notes again and again, with a scope and frequency that goes far beyond Achebe's. He also demonstrates a much greater scope of writing in terms of the number of genres he has been active in and even the number of his works.
In every genre except prose fiction, he has a number of works amongst the world's greatest-poetry, drama, autobiography, the essay, and even his prose work, The Interpreters has a strategic place in African literature.
Achebe, opn the other hand, has a much slimmer body of greatest works that belong in the stratospheric heights of literature.
Those who want to better understand Soyinka could follow my blog Wole Soyinka Dancing. I will be posting woks that adopt a fresh approach to Soyinka, showing why he so is much enjoyable, ideationally powerful and mentally expanding, using both verbal exposition and powerful visual illustrations.
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toyinOn Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:33 AM, elombah daniel <elsdaniel@yahoo.com> wrote:
My brothers,
Chief Tola Adeniyi saw the truth, spoke the truth and wrote absolutely nothing but the truth...
Yes, Wole Soyinka, we all love him, but somehow in our quiet moments, deep in our hearts, we just look at the man, his works, his attitude, his grandstanding, his writings and quietly wonder......
I read Chinua Achebe as a primary school pupil.....but as a secondary school student, I only managed to finish 'The Man Died', mainly because of it's historical narrative.As for the rest of Soyinka's works....For all my love for Literature, (I chose Literature as an option both in Secondary and Tertiary) I had to force myself to read them as an undergraduate, just because they were written by the great Wole Soyinka.
As for Soyinka's politics - wining and dining with all our former corrupt president's at night and pretending in the daytime to side with the masses, we also saw them, but still feel that his good sides outweigh his bad sides....after-all this is Nigeria, our Nigeria.....and yes we still respect Soyinka as Nigeria's worthy ambassador.....
Soyinka is great, no doubt, but Achebe is a colossus!.....and if you Bolaji Aluko wrote, just last night that there is nothing wrong for some disgusting and animalistic low-lifes on this forum to lie and speak ill of the distinguished and honourable Achebe in death, (You last night urged "dear all" to speak the good the bad the ugly about Achebe) it is rampaging hypocrisy for you for you to disparage Chief Tola Adeniyi for saying the truth as he saw them.Daniel Elombah+44-7435469430Every Nigerian that has something important to say, says it on www.elombah.com
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Dear All:Chief Tola Adeniyi is weirdly and apparently ATTACKING the only man whose name is missing in this tribute below, but he (Adeniyi) appears just too frightened to mention by name.This is the reverse of the Yoruba adage where you are all but mentioned but for name, but out of cowardice, you say "No it is not I" for lack of a will to fight the abuser, in this case Adeniyi, who should name the abused and let the devil be ashamed.One wonders why...and I am surprised, not at his commentary - to which he has a right - but at his cowardice as well as timing.And there you have it.Bolaji AlukoShaking his headAnd Scratching it....On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Adebayo Adejuwon <adeadejuwon@yahoo.com> wrote:
Gbosaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!Thank God for you a jare my brother.That Chief Tola Adeniyi is a brown envelope journalist is well known by all and sundry. That he was an apologist to OGD is no news. That he is still doing boy boy to OGD at his old age is not something people are not unaware of. This same Tola Adeniyi who used the his Till Death Do us part column in the Nigerian Tribune to deceive Nigerians only to become errand boy for IBB in the movement to Abuja scandal, and later Abacha is not lost on Nigerians.One would have thought that people like Chief Tola Adeniyi aka Deto Deni would have gained some wisdom now that he is above seventy years.
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Alagba,Oh, yes, atanpako in ju'we ookan; we sure know the disguised object of Adeniyi's vitriol, bushy hair, and all. But Adeniyi represents to me the character in one Hausa adage that goes: "He who calls his wife a prostitute must not be surprised when his children are called bastards." Adeniyi, himself a "brown envelope" journalist characteristic of his current employer, has by this stupid comments done more damage to Achebe's memory, grouping him with the likes of Rotimi, Okigbo, Osofisan and excluding the most prominent of these literary giants; what does that say of his logic? Should he, a coward, be brave enough, he should mention the suspected name and face the invocation of thunderous and fiery response. Enough on the lousy "egunje" journalist, he should henceforth be disregarded. The one with the "bushy hair" will remain our icon and hero.Iyke AjitonaSent from my IPadWho exactly is Tola Adeniyi attacking in the name of writing a tribute? What would have passed for a good tribute in the memory of Late Prof.Chinua Achebe, in my opionon sounds like a direct attack on somebody Tola Adeniyi cannot confront directly.Read and form your opinion.
Chinua Achebe: The uncrowned nobel laureate
By TOLA ADENIYI
The motto of Obafemi Awolowo University is 'For Learning and Culture'. No one academic in Nigeria reflects and personifies that maxim more than Professor Chinua Achebe. The grandfather of modern English literature in Africa was both a colossus in learning, as he was a thoroughbred and highly cultivated individual in manners and character. Chinua Achebe's transition last week took the world by storm and he was genuinely mourned by all those who appreciated the worth, both of his writings and his character. His passing on into eternity was a personal loss to this writer. It was in July 1965 that Uncle Segun Olusola took me to Chinua Achebe, somewhere on Broad Street, Lagos, to seek his permission for me to adapt his most celebrated classic, Things Fall Apart, published in 1958 into a play.
I had seen the dramatic elements in the novel and decided to make a drama out of it. Achebe asked me a few questions and satisfied with my answers, approved my proposal to adapt the novel for both stage and television. Ambali Sanni's Muslim College, Ijebu Ode, provided the funds while the students made up the cast. The production was taken round the whole Western region, including Lagos (minus the colony) and was given loud applause by the likes of Derek Bullock and Dapo Adelugba. That was the beginning of the romance with this giant of letters, who, seven years later, hosted me and my wife on our honeymoon to his official residence at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1972. Achebe gave pride to African writing and to Africans. For the first time, he provided a lens into Africa and presented Africa from the African perspective.
His writings were African-based but with monumental universal appeal. Hence his maiden novel Things Fall Apart got translated into well over 50 languages and sold over 12 million copies. Apart from being the greatest writer of prose to emerge from African continent, Achebe wrote for the masses. Achebe spoke so that he could be understood. The beauty of his writings was that he was a most excellent communicator, believing that the over all purpose of any work of art is communication. Your work, be it dance, song, speech, drama, gesture, painting must convey a message and that message must be comprehended by your listener, your viewer or your audience. Anything short of that is intellectual garbage. In fact, Achebe could easily pass for a playwright of immense stature.
There is so much drama in all of his novels. And this was the reason I started work on The Theatre in Achebe's novels. All the characters in his writings are alive and touchable. The trees, the mountains, the rivers and valleys in his novels speak. Chinua Achebe gave dignity and personality to art. For him, you do not need to grow a bush on your head or grow rodents in your hair to impress on the world that you are an artist or a writer. Achebe was a man of character. He taught for many years at Nsukka and no one ever heard that he drove his female students nuts, nor was he ever accused of befriending or marrying his students. Achebe taught us what a great mind should be. Achebe never went round state governors with beggar's bowl, soliciting for money or gratification nor was he ever accused of sleeping with his friends' widows.
Twice Achebe was offered national honours. Twice he rejected them, arguing that he was not one that would pose as holy in the day time and be in cosy alliance in the night with people he accuses in the day time. The millions, who have continued to mourn Achebe since his transition, do so in deep sorrow and in sincerity, having discovered in the literary colossus a most genuine and sincere human being. Achebe identified with his Igbo nation. He shared the pains and sufferings of his people. And never for once did he treat them with condescension that he was in any way superior to his clan. Achebe was mature. He showed maturity in all his dealings. He did not exhibit childishness. He was never petty or small-minded. All those who had anything to do with him ended up respecting him because he commanded respect.
Even when he was in his thirties, he displayed unusual maturity and mastery of human relations. As far as Achebe was concerned, a writer or any artist for that matter was first and foremost a human person with deep human feelings and ethos. Chinua Achebe eminently qualified for a Nobel Prize before that hitherto prestigious prize got politicised and became not a reward for distinction but a reward for those, who had mastered the art and science of boardroom politics or global arm-twisting. Although Achebe mentioned lizard in almost all his works, the honourable man of letters never learnt the art of lizarding. Prose writer Chinua Achebe shared the distinction of being the best in their arts with John Pepper Clark and Christopher Okigbo, who, up till today, are the best writers of poetry, with Professor Ola Rotimi, the best in playwriting and play production, with Ene Henshaw, Wale Ogunyemi and Professor Femi Osofisan as playwrights with greatest relevance and profundity.
This explains why, to me, Achebe remains the uncrowned Nobel Prize winner with most authentic claim to that crown. The Federal Government of Nigeria must immediately commence the process of creating a national monument to immortalise this rare genius of both learning and character. Chinua Achebe was not just a writer; he was a distinguished writer with the best and noblest of human virtues. A non hypocrite. A non bully. Achebe was both a great ambassador of Africa and a true and respectable specimen of the finest humanity. •Do not submit your happiness to the whims and caprices of others…
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