Please Folu Ogundimu, you must read my entire response to Uduma Kalu´s diatribe against Wole Soyinka in order to understand the implication of that sentence for which you are asking me to ask for forgiveness. A fact that cannot be denied is that Achebe was alive in 2005 when Soyinka was alleged in the referenced interview to have called him a monster that would have liked to hang a Nobel Laureate, but neither he , Achebe, nor any other person reacted. A proof that no such statement was made. After that, I went further to prove that Wole Soyinka actually mentioned Abacha in the interview, as a symbol of regimes, who would have died a happy man for hanging a Nobel Laureate. My mission was to prove Uduma Kalu and his ilk as 419ers who had attempted to falsify the contents of Soyinka's interview by substituting the name of Abacha with Achebe. Read through the entire piece and you will see the need to apologize to me for your wrong assumption.
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [NaijaPolitics] Nobel Prize Committee doctors Soyinka's interview calling Achebe a monster, who would hang a Nobel Laureate
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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:47:20 -0500
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [NaijaPolitics] Nobel Prize Committee doctors Soyinka's interview calling Achebe a monster, who would hang a Nobel Laureate
From: ogundimu3@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:47:20 -0500
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Salimonu:
"If Soyinka had referred to Achebe as a monster in an interview nine years ago (2005), the temperamental and aggressive Achebe would have held Soyinka by the neck to make him retract such a statement."
Did you actually write this, brother? Pray for forgiveness. And good luck.
FO.
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Some Nigerian goat heads (ISI EWU) are addicted to ethnic Viagra which makes them lose sense of good judgment after subjecting themselves to excessive overdose of the ethnic drug. Reading through the interview of Wole Soyinka by Simon Stanford, I am absolutely convinced that UDUMA KALU and his ilk are suffering from overdose of ethnic Viagra.
If Soyinka had referred to Achebe as a monster in an interview nine years ago (2005), the temperamental and aggressive Achebe would have held Soyinka by the neck to make him retract such a statement. Smart, but not clever, Uduma Kalu wrote, Following outcry over the quoted Soyinka statement above, four days ago, November 28th, 2014 the Nobel Academy, without any rejoinder or retraction or press statement on the comment, on whether it was a misquote or error of transcription, unilaterally deleted Chinua Achebe from the interview and replaced it with Sani Abacha to make it look as if no mention was made of Chinua Achebe in the first place." If for the sake of convenience we agree that Soyinka made the statement nine years ago and following protests from certain unspecified quarters, the Nobel Academy removed the offensive statement from its website, why should Uduma Kalu feel injured? Is Nobel Academy obliged to seek the consent of Kalu and his ilk before updating their website? At best, if the name of Achebe had appeared in the interview at anytime, I would attribute it to the handiwork of Nigerian internet miscreants who have hacked into the Nobel Academy website to insert the name of Achebe. When the Nobel Academy discovered that, it took necessary measure to expunge the tracks of the intruders from its website.Reading through the interview of Soyinka by Simon Stanford, it is easy to discern for non-literate oafs that the alleged reference to Achebe as a monster by Soyinka in the interview is the handiwork of Nigerian 419ers. The interview was sequential and associative in character that made one question to lead to another. Having answered to the question of the risk involved in utilizing literature to intervene in politics, Mr Stanford asked, Has this process been part of your perceived duty as a writer or as a citizen? Wole Soyinka answered, "The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other a times, it just does not suffice. The proof of that is just the ability of a dictator to snuff out the life of a writer as happened to my colleague, KEN SARO WIWA, the OGONI environmental activist who was hanged after a Kangaroo trial by that brutal dictator, Sani Abacha." Later Soyinka was asked, "How has being a Nobel Price Laureate affected your work, your writing, your creative space? Soyinka replied, ".... In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I´m standing by, ready to receive it, but as I said now, it´s a problem, it´s a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he´d (he had) succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature. I mean, that´s a fact and it can be attested by some of his close associates so it brings, in this particular case, it brought certain additional risks when it should have been what most people correctly think, a kind of protection." Sani Abacha died on June 8, 1998 and that was why Soyinka expressed himself in the past tense, SANI ABACHA WOULD HAVE DIED A HAPPY MAN IF HE HAD SUCCEEDED IN HANGING A NOBEL LAUREATE FOR LITERATURE, while referring to him. Achebe was still alive at the time of the interview and he did not hold any position in the government of Nigeria which could have afforded him the opportunity to hang a Nobel Laureate as Abacha did to Soyinka´s colleague, KEN SARO WIWA. Or is Uduma Kalu so dumb to suggest that Soyinka meant that it was Chinua Achebe who hanged Ken Saro Wiwa and the eight Ogoni environmentalists and therefore his Nobel Price was not a protection, as most people correctly think, against the hangman Achebe? Uduma Kalu is certainly a 419er and a magician trying to conjure a chicken out of an handkerchief. As my Igbo comrade used to tell political nitwits, I say *TOA MECHIE ONU,* shut your mouth to Uduma Kalu and his cohorts.
this procesDate: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 17:26:39 -0800
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CC: wolesoyinkasociety@yahoogroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [NaijaPolitics] Nobel Prize Committee doctors Soyinka's interview calling Achebe a monster, who would hang a Nobel LaureateCould somebody, everybody please stop this kind of childish tribal jingoism!I've heard with my own ears, live and direct ,the Nobel Laureate saying such things and worse about Sani Abacha and not Chinua Achebe.Ceratinly not. He certainly did not and could not say such things about Chinua Achebe.At no time did I read any such interview in the Nobel web pages nor did anyone ever report having read such a thing in a Swedish Academy Publication. To double-check you could directly enquire from Stefan Jonsson a Wole Soyinka fan and at least, one time specialist...And by the way in a still sealed envelop I have a copy of a sound recording in CD copy format of the Nobel press conference of December 6, 2012 which I specially requested and collected from the Swedish Academy and which is still destined for Ikhide R. Ikheloa....the only thing still pending is his postal address....
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