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.
Miscellaneous

My Helicopter Flight Into Near Death 

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I have been in more deadly dangers in my journalistic travails than a suicide bomber. When I look back, I can only wonder and laugh...
Nigeria Matters

Sycophancy Is a Terminal Disease

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I had the great opportunity of reading in manuscript Adventures Of A Guerrilla Journalist by Babafemi Ojudu. This is definitely not a review of that...
Arts & Books

Inside The Budding Jungle City of Stars

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The road to Ajegunle is rough. On this hot Lagos noonday the rickety, overcrowded kombi bus takes almost an eternity to get to Boundary Bus-Stop,...
Miscellaneous

The Zik Mausoleum At Onitsha Needs Attention

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A boon companion has just taken me to Onitsha, the city on the bank of the River Niger in Anambra State, and the only...
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Kunle Ajibade: The Legend of Conscience Abacha Could Not Kill

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Even in the darkest of days and nights in Nigeria, there are adorable persons to celebrate in fine fettle.  Kunle Ajibade, the Executive Editor/Director of PMNEWS and TheNEWS Magazine,...
Faith & Philosophy

Uprooting Religious Dogma and Mental Enslavement

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It takes uncanny courage and conviction to write a book on the controversial subjects of Christianity and Colonialism. When Eme E. Egwuonwu’s Liberating the...
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Unstoppable Ngozi Wahala

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It’s not for nothing that she is fondly referred to as Ngozi Wahala in many enlightened quarters. Truth is they no longer make women like...
Health

The Return of Kwashiorkor

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The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It was not a pretty...
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