The people who used to shout most about the need for a revolution to happen in Nigeria are now the blokes making many arguments against revolution. The former activists and campaigners for radical change are now singing a new song…
An airport for Achebe — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is a Chinua Achebe International Airport in Anambra State. It was a spectacular masterstroke from Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo when he renamed the Anambra Airport at Umueri after Chinua Achebe. The ovation that Soludo got when he made the…
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 time-bomb primed to explode with fatal menace. The unfathomable aspect of the matter is that some Nigerians dance to the ticking of the time-bomb thinking…
How not to kill yourself over a woman — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There’s this recent sad news of a pastor in Nnewi, Anambra State who killed himself after being jilted by a lover. A hot tear for the suicidal man of God! One wag who claims to be my friend has just…
Ideology of alcoholism — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is only through the ideology of alcoholism that one can triumph over the absurd theatre happening in Nigeria today. The brazen stealers of Nigerian elections will almost always tell you: Go to court! I will rather go to the…
The Collapse of the Nigerian Tripod — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigeria today stands on wobbly legs, and wants needs to be done to make the country to stand steady and strong is to go back to where the rain started beating the country in the modern day. At independence in…
Bookdoctors opens submissions call for creative non-fiction literary travelogue
Bookdoctors Ventures Publishing Lagos, with its project editors- Sunny Ayewanu and Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, is calling on writers to submit individual essays on their unique and extraordinary international travel experiences. Such experiences, according to a statement, should be inspired by…
Like the Queen, like Zik of Africa — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 
I am yet to learn Queen’s English and now they have changed to King’s English. The Queen is dead; long live the King! The burial of the Queen was brought home to me when my friend and brother, Reginald Offodile,…
A Special Plea on Nigeria Prize for Literature — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The celebrated season of the Nigeria Prize for Literature always ends on the note of winner-takes-all. It is incumbent on me to plead now that the longlisted and shortlisted authors be also rewarded with cash. While the overall winner goes…
Victory for the Vanquished: A review of Hanum Mary Chioke’s “It Is A Goal! No!” — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It Is A Goal! No! – The Necessity of Biafra by Hanum Mary Chioke; ISBN: 978-978-977-670-2; 2018; 259pp Man’s existence on earth can be understood like a football match in which a goal must be scored for victory to be…
