BJ
“….The attack is in poor taste and reeks of bitterness and envy”
Poor taste, bitterness and envy. These things eat at the being of whomever they reside but, who cares.
Kongi dey KAMPE with wholesome omoluabi attributes.
Aba Saheed and shifting morals, till death do they part.
Enjoy your day
Dotun N. Salu
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Abolaji Adekeye
Sent: 27 March 2013 15:30
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: [OmoOdua] Re: NigerianID | Bolaji Aluko Re: TOLA ADENIYI ON ACHEBE!!!
Tola Adeniyi is such a coward. At his age one feels he should be old enough to know better (but wisdom is to Solomon what age is to Methuselah ). The attack is in poor taste and reeks of bitterness and envy. Perhaps, it is Soyinka's fault not have hosted Deto Deni to a lavish honeymoon.
Bj
On Mar 26, 2013 6:23 PM, "Nurudeen Saliu" <n.salui@btinternet.com> wrote:
Tola Adeniyi’s tribute is Kongi implied. Recall, Kongi was partly, if not largely responsible for routing them from their abasha business ( messy undertakings). Some Awoist!
Dotun N. Salu
From: OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com [mailto:OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mobolaji Aluko
Sent: 26 March 2013 14:43
To: Akinyemi Onigbinde
Cc: topcrest topcrest; elombah daniel; OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com; NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com; naijaintellects; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com; Ra'ayi; USAAfrica Dialogue; Yan Arewa
Subject: [OmoOdua] Re: NigerianID | Bolaji Aluko Re: TOLA ADENIYI ON ACHEBE!!!
Akinyemi:
It will not be in the late departed Prof Achebe's interest if this issue were to degenerate into "Discuss (Compare and Contrast) the Literature, Life and Times of Soyinka and Achebe." It would be un-even because Soyinka is still here with us and can defend himself or still make changes as he or his Maker see fit.
The Tola Adeniyi angle is childishly jejune and ill-advised.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Akinyemi Onigbinde <akinomoogun56@yahoo.com> wrote:
Elonbo,
I hope you guys are not coming with your revisionism as history history,about,yet another Yoruba person,just because one Yoruba person who was a traitor,working hand-in-glove with a Soyinka hunter in those days when Nigeria's fate hung in the balance,only expressed his frustration,a frustration he has carried about for reasons best known to him and his discredited pedigree.Now,name one Nigeria President that Soyinka hobnobbed with in the night while pretending to be on the masses side in day time.You should also name one Nigeria head of state that has not been on the receiving end of Soyinja's vitriol.Oh,perhaps,he went to hobnob with Ojukwu as the civil war gathered storm to merit being jailed for some odd 28 months,most of which he spent in solitary conferment.Yet,he surely was a darling to Abacha,Tola Adeniyi'shero,to warrant his house in Abeokuta been petrol- bombed after having been chased into exile,like many of his compatriots in the NADECO struggle.Also,Soyinka,as a University teacher, was a night-time friend of Ladoke Akintola and Tafawa Balewa when he risked everything to invade a radio station to stop Akintola's propaganda,afternath of the rigging of election in Western region,precipitating what,today,is known as wetie.
As for his writings,if you ask me,those who should know and appreciate their quality,or otherwise have since spoken in his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.Thus,your being unable to access them may well be due to the obvious fact that Soyinka is a serious writer who can only enjoy the attention of serious readers.I can only hope you don't want to be a new neo-Tarzan in town,a role Chinwezu led others to play in the 80s,aftermath of Soyinka'sNobel prize for literature.In the ensuring debate the troika got a serious tearing apart by the lion himself
I think you will save Achebe a hit-back if you advice yourself to desist from a dangerous path of taking a side-kick at Wole Soyinka.Even Achebe,the departed story-teller, did not risk a direct confrontation with the master polemicist
Akinyemi Onigbinde
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On Mar 26, 2013, at 11:45, topcrest topcrest <topcrestt@yahoo.com> wrote:
.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.
Dan,
Surely that is not Soyinka's fault is it? Accessibility is a function of the reader not the writer IMHO. Alexander solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago was incomprehensible to me when Father O'Conell introduced it to us as form 2 students. It remains a classic.
·
- Part I The Prison Industry, Ch. 1 "Arrest" (p13, The Gulag Archipelago, Collins 1974)
- Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
Joe
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:33 AM
Subject: NigerianID | Bolaji Aluko Re: TOLA ADENIYI ON ACHEBE!!!
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
+44-7435469430
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From: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>
To: OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:02 AM
Subject: NigerianID | Re: TOLA ADENIYI ON ACHEBE!!!
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 Aluko
Shaking his head
And 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 en
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