Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu is the author of God of Poetry, Satan's Story, A Play of Ghosts and The Missing Link. A 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing nominee, he wrote the text for Scottish photographer Owen Logan's caricature of Michael Jackson's visit to Nigeria entitled Masquerade. He lives in Lagos and is married with children.
Arts & Books

An Only Child Named Friday

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Homage: Return To Familiar Places - The Memoir by Chidi Amuta; Wilson & Weizmann Associates Limited, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 492pp It can indeed be...
Miscellaneous

A Hospital For Chima Ubani

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In this sad season in Nigeria I got filled with so much joy when the news reached my end that Abia State Governor, Dr...
Nigeria Matters

Nigeria Is Dying In Bondage

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The calls came to me in quick succession - from the United States and some cities in Nigeria - concerning the health and accommodation...
Miscellaneous

Nigerian Style Of Football

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We played the game. It entailed any number of men or women running about kicking any roundish object. We had no special name for...
Business & Economy

Banks Are Not My Business

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Whenever I see any bank and the ill-assorted characters called bankers in their foppish coats I suffer an extravagance of laughter. The Poet does not...
Interviews & Profiles

Prof Bart Nnaji As A Sports Superstar

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Prof Bart Nnaji is globally renowned for his revolutionary innovations in robotics, e-Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He has served as Nigeria’s Power Minister as...
Interviews & Profiles

The Homecoming Ties Of Prof Nduka Otiono

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The don makes it a point of duty to always come home to Nigeria from his duty post as Director, Institute of African Studies,...
Miscellaneous

The Prof Bart Nnaji Book

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The capacious International Conference Centre, Enugu was filled to the brim on Friday, July 17 when the Prof Bart Nnaji Birthday Symposium, “Powering Tomorrow:...
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