Innocent
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Innocent
@TriumphantJimmy
Alara tutu ni mi|| Hyt is not al golde that glareth
Katılım Haziran 2023
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The regular Nigerian can’t even afford to buy the dream count in Nigeria. When i wanted to get a copy last year i remember seeing prices from 18k upwards. How many Nigerians can comfortably afford that? Despite that Nigerians still bought over 20k copies.
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Chimamanda sold nearly 300,000 copies of Dream Count almost equally split between Europe and America with only around 5000 copies bought in Nigeria. Why should she continue to write for you? She stopped writing for you after HOAYS. Literature is business too.
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@JCObioma @republicjournal I’m happy about this, as I’m happy about @Efikomag as well.
We must make sure they’re sustainable long term.
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@TriumphantJimmy True, but @republicjournal has been publishing at least 2 fiction pieces (more than the New Yorker) in each issue since last year, including this one: rpublc.com/story/2026/03/…
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All your classics in the AWS exist because of the Oyinbo man even after you were independent. Heinemann, not a Nigerian or local publisher was paying Achebe to chair the African Writers Series.
50 yrs later you have no equivalent of Granta, Newyorker, LRB but keep making noise.
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@casmiradiepena The culture has what it prioritises and it’s not learning and advancements.
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@TriumphantJimmy It's so unfortunate. I wonder what our billionaires, government and elites donate to. We're so talented without any systems to harness and document them.
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We should not quote Sebald or be happy we can punctuate well for fear of racists not considering us equals.
But you can benefit from MFA, enjoy American phrontisteria and live among those same racists when UI and OAU need you more than Idaho and Utah.
You’re a philistine.
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@EsomnofuEbelen2 YouTube, I guess. Don’t think it’s on any traditional streaming platform.
Interestingly, I saw one of the older versions in Nigeria. I didn’t know it was based on a book then. Then I read the book twenty odd years later and it clicked.😩
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Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" is one of my favourite novels of all time.
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Shouldn’t it be sacrosanctity of the rule of law?
Adedayo Agarau@adedayoagarau
The first step to restoring the soul of Nigeria is reverting the national anthem.
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Ok. 5000, 10000, 15000. Still a bad outing when you fit for population and compare with markets of comparable size. Especially for your biggest literary star with global celebrity status.
Innocent@TriumphantJimmy
Chimamanda sold nearly 300,000 copies of Dream Count almost equally split between Europe and America with only around 5000 copies bought in Nigeria. Why should she continue to write for you? She stopped writing for you after HOAYS. Literature is business too.
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You want to win O. Henry, T.S Eliot Prize, PEN/Faulkner etc.
No oyinbo wants to win Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature.
But if oyinbo sets up PEN/Soyinka prize for poetry tomorrow to cater to you since you can’t sustain anything of your own, you’ll rush to apply.😁
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I think the most shameless Nigerians are the hypocritical MFA bandits who have drunk from the American chalice and live on her largesse but still parrot some form of literary Africanism.
They might be worse than Nigerian politicians who don’t pretend to be good.
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Young 17yr old boy in Ohio who wants to read Obama’s memoir only needs to sacrifice 2 hours of his KFC pay to buy the book. Same with his counterpart working in Starbucks in Leeds.
But to read the memoir of a Nigerian ex- president, you have to spend your monthly minimum wage.
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@chocoo__latte I’ve admitted that. It was between 5000 and 15000 in Nigeria.
My point still stands though.
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Chimamanda sold nearly 300,000 copies of Dream Count almost equally split between Europe and America with only around 5000 copies bought in Nigeria.
Why should she continue to write for you?
She stopped writing for you after HOAYS.
Literature is business too.
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@TriumphantJimmy 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒍𝒖𝒙𝒖𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒚٫ 𝒘𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒋𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒚! Read it again we fucking tried!
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So loud . . .
Innocent@TriumphantJimmy
Chimamanda sold nearly 300,000 copies of Dream Count almost equally split between Europe and America with only around 5000 copies bought in Nigeria. Why should she continue to write for you? She stopped writing for you after HOAYS. Literature is business too.
Ikeja, Nigeria 🇳🇬 English
@BuikeOnah We carry shoulder like we’ve arrived whereas we’re closer to our starting point than the finish line.
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@TriumphantJimmy We like to dey carry shoulder.
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