Conversations With Showbiz Stars by Azuh Arinze; YES International Ventures, Akute, Ogun State; 2022; 294pp The 1954 American film There Is No Business Like Show Business, directed by the legendary Walter Lang and featuring amongst its stars the even more…
My magic music man Majek Fashek -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It takes a playfully mischievous magician to conjure heavy rain to beat on his audience once he takes the stage. Mischief sits well in the Majek Fashek magic. Majek was in his heydays rehearing at daytime in Silver Shadow Night…
Soludo: The job meets the man -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is crucial to state from the very beginning that Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo is a man of destiny. He did not hide it from anybody that he wanted to become the Anambra State Governor. The job has now met…
Buying and selling human beings – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Many Nigerians will gladly sell themselves to travel out of Nigeria for keeps. Back in time, there were plenteous noises against the capturing of Nigerians – and sundry Africans – and selling them as slaves. Now, many Nigerians are ready…
How to kill a third term -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Democracy and the African chief are mortal enemies. The chief in Africa sees himself as a permanent fixture who must never be disturbed by such matters as elections that democracy promotes. The Nigerian chief is the giant amongst all African…
Setting forth at dawn with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Wole Soyinka did not waste any time at all from the very beginning. As if ordained right from the womb of his beloved mother Wild Christian, Soyinka was determined to kick aside any obstacle standing in his way from setting…
“The Centrist Manifesto” of the new world ideology -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The Centrist Manifesto by Uchenna Nwankwo; Centrist Books – An Imprint of Centrist Productions Ltd, Ikeja, Lagos; 2022; 201pp Books that change history do not come as heavy tomes. Back in 1848, the world was shaken up with the publication…
Becoming Nigeria’s president passeth all understanding -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The season of jostling to become Nigeria’s next president is on, and many strange characters are already calling themselves front-runners. All shapes of hats have been thrown into the political ring from all the geo-political zones of the beleaguered country. …
64 toasts to “Things Fall Apart” -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
This year marks the 64th birthday anniversary of the iconic novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart was first published on June 17, 1958 by William Heinemann, London, and contains only 50,380 words, but it has packed…
Day Onyeka Onwenu came for the kill -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The sonorous songstress Onyeka Onwenu is 70, and the world is celebrating her, but my duty here is to add the human angle to the story of the goddess. Onyeka Onwenu, inimitable singer, ace broadcaster and classy actress takes no…