Writing is fighting. That is the dictum of the fiery African-American writer Ishmael Reed who wrote a book entitled Writing is Fighting. Whether taken literally or otherwise writers fire bullets with words, and in some instances actually take up guns…
How to wake a 60-year-old sleeping giant – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
A sleeping giant is a bad sight to behold. Nigeria happens to be widely acknowledged as the Giant of Africa. China used to be the apt example of a giant that was fast asleep, which made Napoleon Bonaparte to reportedly…
I was disappointed by Achebe’s comment on my Nobel prize – Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said he was disappointed by a comment made by the late renowned novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, shortly after he (Soyinka) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. In a conversation with an American-based…
Nigeria as a confederacy of dunces – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu9
Let me start with a confession. I borrowed the title of this piece from the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The novel and its author have very interesting stories, for starters. John Kennedy…
Chinua Achebe: The Doyen of the African Idiom – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is well-nigh impossible for November 16 to go by without much of the world remembering that the date is the birthday of Chinua Achebe. It needs stressing that Achebe is arguably the most influential novelist who ever drew breath…
#LABAF2019 -EXHIBITION OPENING @Museum Building
What does Nigeria and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe have in common? Apparently, so much. For instance, they are both in the same age grade with Nigeria 59 years old, while the book is 60. But there is more,…
Welcome To The Federal Republic Of Retired Generals-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The military never left power. Forget all that jazz about democracy in the so-called “Giant of Africa”. Even common civil rule is neither here nor there. The democracy we practice in Nigeria is a musical chair of retired generals.…
Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ sold for N1m (Nation)
A first print, first edition copy of late Chinua Achebe’s premier novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ has been purchased for one million naira. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the private sale took place on Twitter following a call by author,…
Needed transformation will elude Lagos if APC remains in office – Agbaje
Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, has called on voters to end the reign of impunity and hooliganism in Lagos State with their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) in the coming governorship election. Agbaje, who…
Prodigious fruits of Sally Mbanefo’s Anambra Homecoming initiative -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Christmas season will never be the same again in Anambra State. Sally Mbanefo, Anambra State’s very resourceful Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs, Indigenous Artworks, Culture and Tourism has in the works an unprecedented Anambra Homecoming Festival that will put at full…