A Review of There Was A Man – Chinua Achebe Poetry/Essay Anthology (Sixth Edition); A Publication of the Society of Young Nigerian Writers, Anambra State Chapter; Edited by Izunna Okafor; 2021; 128pp Chinua Achebe is without a shadow of doubt…
Exploring the rudiments of Borojah’s law – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
“Shock your wife!” I am only reiterating the law handed down to me by Borojah, a rambunctious neighbour of mine, who claims to be a poet though I’ve never come across a verse written by him. I do not know…
Zik deserves November 16 to be national holiday – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first president, deserves his birthday, November 16, to be slated as a national holiday. It is deserving honour for the pivotal leader who led the charge for Nigeria’s independence on October 1, 1960. …
Crazy school days at Great Ife -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
My studies at Great Ife under Prof Wole Soyinka got off on a beery note. I was with my classmates in Soyinka’s house for practical lessons on television production when I told the future Nobel Laureate’s steward, the Ghanaian lad…
The conjoined Nigerian twins called democracy and military rule – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The grotesque Nigerian twins called democracy and military rule are crucially joined at the stomach. The military politicos and the civilian politicians eat into the same fat stomach like Siamese twins. It is little wonder then that two generals of…
Rootsy Uwa Mgbede Concert goes to Abuja – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It was a sight to behold as the folk music maestro Gerald Eze took his Rootsy Uwa Mgbede concert from Awka, Anambra State to the celebrated Bubbles Cubana Pool Bar in Grand Cubana Hotel, Abuja. Chief Amobi Tobechukwu Ogum had…
Making song-and-dance of senior advocates of nothingness – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
This decadently lawless nation has just made a song-and-dance of 72 newly-minted Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN). A crooked wig on the head of each of them! Obviously the relentless manufacture of lawyers and SANs cannot keep pace with the…
Ken Nnamani: The man who changed history – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Standing Strong: Legislative Reforms, Third Term and Other Issues of the 5th Senate By Ken Nnamani; InterPares Media Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria; 2021; 491pp One man with a gavel changed the course of Nigerian history. Tuesday, May 16, 2006 was Nigeria’s…
Repetition of theatre of the absurd in Anambra elections – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Let’s play politics, because as they say, all politics is local. The absurd theatre of trying mightily to turn Anambra State into a private fiefdom by the powers-that-be did not start this Wednesday. The political desperadoes who always claim to…
Nobel Prize as mother of all controversies – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The Nobel Prize in Literature is Alfred Nobel’s dynamite gift of controversy that can blow up the world. British playwright and the 1926 Nobel Prize winner, George Bernard Shaw, said: “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but…