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Zik’s day beckons — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 

The man fondly called Zik of Africa deserves his day. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s foremost…

Joblessness does not frighten The Poet — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 

It is in my DNA to make very powerful enemies.  It’s as though I cannot…

Before japa I rocked the US & Canada — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Japa is not for me and I’m not even in the mood to visit any…

Tribalism is the emperor of all isms — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Tribalism is the ism topping all isms!  All the talk of Socialism, Communism, Humanism and…

Once upon a life on the dangerous seas — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

The talk of oil thieves across the waters of the Niger Delta has made me…

Nigeria’s self-inflicted moral burden of shame — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 

Nigeria has reduced itself to the butt of the crudest jokes all over the world. …

An airport for Achebe  — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 

There is a Chinua Achebe International Airport in Anambra State.  It was a spectacular masterstroke…

Federal Republic of Fiction @ 63 — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Nigeria is fiction.  The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new shelf in the…

White Scholar interviews The Poet — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 

First question: Could you tell me a little about where you grew up and how you…

Dancing to the music of a ticking time-bomb — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

It’s a terrible Nigerian fate that every so-called democratic election is delivered like a ticking…

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