Let’s start out by reminding ourselves that a haunted house is almost always a place f horror stories. I know that Charles Dickens wrote a ghost story entitled “A Haunted …
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 well-nigh impossible keeping pace with the man who stressed from the very beginning that he was coming with “disruptive change”. Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, came as a …
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The docudrama Fela: The Man and His Music is a fact-driven story of Fela Anikulakpo-Kuti that focuses on the legendary musician’s defiant crusade against injustice in the brutal military era. …
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The one-party phenomenon that ruined many African countries in the past is being regurgitated in modern-day Nigeria. It’s so obvious that gruesome tragedy is brewing all over the land that …
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The ultimate recommendation of democracy is this: where a party performs badly it gets voted out. In these shores, it is a different ball game. Even if a party unleashes …
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What instantly seized my attention was the mention of “Governor’s wife”. The reporter’s instinct in me immediately got into fine fettle. Like the character Al Barney in James Hadley Chase’s …
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The Nigerian economy is in dire straits, and many families cannot make ends meet in the drive for survival. Most of the presidents of African countries have just travelled to …
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I get more phone calls and text messages than all the mobile telephone networks in Nigeria put together. Yes, I am that large. I am sick and tired of being …
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Democracy has become a game of blackmail in Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria that some characters are making the mad magic of believing that there can ever be democracy …
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The Paris2024 Olympic Games cannot be forgotten in a hurry, especially as the Giant of Africa ended up winning no medal at all. Yes, Nigeria won nothing, as in nought, …
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These are dangerous days of gross shamelessness in totalitarian Nigeria. Pathetic flaunting of clannish power is all the rage, and a good number of supposedly modern-day Nigerians have thrown their …
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The sonorous songstress Onyeka Onwenu has just passed, but my duty here is to add the human angle to the legend of the goddess. Onyeka Onwenu, inimitable singer, ace broadcaster …
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Protest is all the rage in Nigeria today. Democracy allows for peaceful protest, but it is well-nigh impossible for overzealous state agents and sundry nefarious elements not to conjure up …
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These are very dangerous days in Nigeria. “These are times that try men’s souls,” as the founding father of American independence, Thomas Paine, wrote in The American Crisis. In …
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Sad news hit me hard on Tuesday, June 25, in this year of Our Lord – my inimitable guru Tam Fiofori passed away. Tam was in his lifetime celebrated as …
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When I broke the world exclusive news of Nobel Laureate publishing his latest novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, one of my critics asked me: …