It is astonishing to me that the Nigerian media cannot bear testimony to the passage of one of Nigeria’s greatest writers more than six years after his death. Back in the 1970s Obi B. Egbuna ranked amongst the most popularly…
A toast to my Auntie Okonjo Wahala – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
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, the newly-minted Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). …
Celebrating Osondu: The good man of Amesi – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It was the classic celebration of life for a worthy man. Ichie (Sir) Cyprian Onyemeke Osondu who passed away at the grand age of 92 was indeed a great man of honour and dignity. Widely revered as Ezeudoka of Amesi,…
Be my Val with AK-47 – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Love at gunpoint. That is the mantra in Nigeria today. It was Valentine’s Day on the Sunday but the news all over the land was of Fulani herdsmen storming from the forests with AK47, kidnapping, raping and killing. How can…
Elements of Miyetti Allah Democracy (MAD) – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The Giant of Africa, the dear country Nigeria has done it again. She has written a brand new chapter into the coveted book of democracy. The breaking news is that Nigeria is the first and only country in the whole…
Hear word my people, this is the age of the cow – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
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 me do the mooing inside a forest near my house.…
The Mystique of Maxim – Sanya Osha
(For Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate, on the occasion of his 60th birthday) “NA poor I poor no bi craze I craze,” the oft-repeated phrase is a defining axiom in Uzor Maxim Uzoatu’s text of street knowledge. My most inspiring times…
The poet goes the distance – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
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 lifers never ever struggle to earn any freedom whatsoever. They…
51 years of conquests by Rangers International of Enugu – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
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, No Vanquished”, the vanquished ones knew themselves as they sauntered…
The trouble with Nigeria is a house – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
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 the plenteous troubles of Nigeria is a house that is…