Professor Chinua Achebe Condoles Obasanjo

Oct

2005

By Achebe Foundation

CHINUA ACHEBE

October 27, 2005

President Olusegun Obasanjo,

Abuja, Nigeria.

Dear President Obasanjo:

Please accept the heart-felt sympathy of my family and myself on the passing away of your dear wife, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, Nigeria’s First Lady.

May she rest in peace and may God comfort all those who mourn her death.

Let me also offer through you to the Nigeria people profound condolences for the loss of so many lives in the air disaster that overtook the country recently. May divine guidance attend us through these hard times.

Sincerely,

Chinua Achebe

Annandale-on Hudson

New York

Your Comments

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Robot

# 1 | 30.10.2005 09:27

	Link to the article is here

Guest

# 2 | 30.10.2005 13:34

	There is nothing to sorrow about here. The lady was a disease that needed to die for Nigerians to live. OBJ is also a disease that must die for Nigerians to live. As soon as both of them die the better for every Nigerian.

Guest

# 3 | 30.10.2005 14:24

	Who are these cold blooded zombies parading themselves as lovers of Nigeria. People like you are the problem with Nigeria not OBJ.

EezeeBee EezeeBee is offline

# 4 | 30.10.2005 14:50

	... God comfort all those who mourn her death - Chinua Achebe There\'s nothing like excellence and mastery of the language. The bolded words above say it all.

Guest

# 5 | 30.10.2005 15:42

	The only cold blooded zombies are those who thrive on the suffering and abuse of Nigerians. OBJ and his supporters are inhuman. More than 30,000 Nigerians died because of Sharia and political assasinations. Thanks to OBJ and Stella. She deserved whatever happened to her. OBJ should die like her too. I have no mercy for those who live on the backs of others.

Guest

# 6 | 30.10.2005 16:03

	More than 30,000 Nigerians died... since OBJ and Stella. There is nothing like truth and reality. The above bolded letters speak the truth and reality of OBJ and Stella. Get over it and get a life.

Guest

# 7 | 30.10.2005 18:46

	Clearly you are the one that needs it most ... a life! Quick to highlight the statement of others - come up with your own. \"Excellence and mastery of language\" indeed - wisdom too. He offers his sympathy and condolences rather than bile and scorn. If you cannot learn from Prof Achebe\'s \"language\" then learn from his actions. At the very least don\'t add such rot to his gesture :(

Guest

# 8 | 30.10.2005 19:01

	The subject is OBJ, his wife, and their rotten ways. What have you learned from them? How to kill and steal from the poor? How to dwell in vanity? How to shame Nigerian people in Spain? What? Name one thing worthy of emulation from your heroes!!

Guest

# 9 | 30.10.2005 19:03

	\"Excellence and mastery of language\" indeed - wisdom too Yeah. Indeed. But Stella did not write this. Rather, she killed many. Her husband killed many. What else? I recall that the same Achebe was threatened by OBJ! Shame on you and OBJ. Let them all burn in hell.

Guest

# 10 | 30.10.2005 19:30

	You said it ... \"I recall that the same Achebe was threatened by OBJ!\" ... and yet he writes a letter to the President and to Nigeria. What an example! I don\'t have to debase myself and write bile and all forms of rubbish for my dissent of the current administration to register. Are we now to say that by his letter Prof Achebe is now an OBJ apologist? Like you were so quick to say a few posts earlier \"Get over it and get a life\" \"A man\'s dying is more the survivors\' affair than his own.\" Thomas Mann

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