The acute hatred in my heart now-now, as we do say in Nigeria, is about the characters called columnists. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired over …
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu is the author of God of Poetry, Satan's Story, A Play of Ghosts and The Missing Link. A 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing nominee, he wrote the text for Scottish photographer Owen Logan's caricature of Michael Jackson's visit to Nigeria entitled Masquerade. He lives in Lagos and is married with children.
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It is a lot easier to live a celibate life than to stay faithful to one wife. Right from the Garden of Eden, it’s written that immediately a man tastes …
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A do-gooder told his landlord that any tenant who sends the police after the owner of the house “is capable of killing you.” This selfsame Tenant Do-Good not only called …
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The 250ml liquid antiseptic on my table as I write now commands attention. The product is called “YESS Antiseptic” and bears the tagline “always protecting”. It is meant “for external …
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Not many Nigerians know that the country won a world cup in football back in 1977. Most Nigerians would regale you with stories of 1985 when Nigeria won the maiden …
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The iroko stands tall and mighty, stretching its boughs across the firmament. The song of the heart is in arresting dialogue with the iroko, the one tree that makes the …
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Let’s play politics – party politics, that is. No less a worthy than Aristotle stated that man is by nature a political animal, and who am I not to obey …
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Ojukwu: The ‘Rebel’ I Served by Uche Ezechukwu; ThoniMartins Ltd, Abuja, Benin, Lagos; 2012 Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu almost always dominated all discourse in the course of his journey on earth. In …
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They no longer make women like my very own Auntie Ngozi. No, I have to be more precise: they no longer make men and women like Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, …
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Things have fallen apart completely in Nigeria. Nothing has made many Nigerians lose faith in Nigeria more than the impunity reigning in Nigeria since General Muhammadu Buhari ascended to power …
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I am sorry for any Nigerian who cannot speak the language of the cow. In truth, I am daily mastering cow language, and you do need to come and see …
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Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka; Griots Lounge Publishing Winnipeg, MB, Canada; 2020; 96pp Devotion to poetry is a life sentence. Echezonachukwu Nduka is a lifer. In the prison of poetry, true …
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When the Nigeria-Biafra war ended in January 1970, there was gloom in Igboland. Even as the then Head of State General Yakubu Gowon made the famous announcement of “No Victor, …
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Chinua Achebe has stolen my thunder by stating that the trouble with Nigeria is leadership. In my own book, the trouble with Nigeria is a house. Yes, the source of …
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Dr. Stanley Nkwachikwelumamaya Macebuh was a rare breed in the freshest sense of the term, a charge of fine electricity who all on his own changed the face of journalism …
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I have just been consulted to become the National Grand Patron of the newly formed Stingy Men’s Association of Nigeria (SMAN). Of course, I promptly turned down the offer knowing …