The telephone is what makes every Nigerian tick. The Nigerian used to be defined by his car. That was when Nkem Nwankwo had to write the novel My Mercedes Is Bigger Than Yours. Now electric cars have come into the…
This nwa James called Chimamanda – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Let’s start from the end: I have died. Yes, this daughter of Professor James Adichie has killed me. Call it a beautiful death and I will wake up from the cemetery and take a good beer! And whilst I’m sipping…
How Nigerian Footballers Conquered America In 1974 – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is a trademark of the boots of Nigerian footballers to make history. The world cannot grow tired of the exploits of the Super Eagles in the World Cup at USA 94 and the Olympic Dream Team of Atlanta 96.…
I think we should postpone Christmas 2020 – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Even though the minutes of the #EndSARS meeting has been written, read and adopted, there are plenty matters arising, and these matters are not funny at all. First and foremost, Nigerian police officers are on the run from their duties,…
Minutes of the last Nigerian meeting – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is nightmare time in Nigeria. All over the place it is gloom and doom, but a writer must perforce write. The great French novelist Balzac called himself “the secretary of French society”. It is in that spirit that I…
How JP Clark led Achebe & Soyinka to IBB – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
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…
World Exclusive: Wole Soyinka publishes new novel – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is cool by me to let out this news item as a World Exclusive: Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka will publish his long-awaited third novel this year. Let’s not forget that Soyinka published his last novel, Season of Anomy, way…
James Hadley Chase all over – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The request from my reader was short and sharp: “Let’s have your piece on James Hadley Chase all over.” The reader was so insistent that I could not but have a total recall on James Hadley Chase, the most popular…
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…
Who Wrote Things Fall Apart? – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It all started at the local secondary school in Ndiorumbe when the literature teacher, Holy Nwankpi, asked his students: “Who wrote Things Fall Apart?” The first student pleaded his innocence thusly: “I didn’t write it-o!” Another student pointed an accusing…