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.
Nigeria Matters

The Familiar Road of Damnation

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Protest is all the rage in Nigeria today. Democracy allows for peaceful protest, but it is well-nigh impossible for overzealous state agents and sundry nefarious...
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Bayo Onanuga: Spewing Ethnic Hatred As Weapon Against Mass Hunger

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These are very dangerous days in Nigeria. “These are times that try men’s souls,” as the founding father of American independence, Thomas Paine, wrote in...
Interviews & Profiles

My Guru Tam Fiofori Departs

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Sad news hit me hard on Tuesday, June 25, in this year of Our Lord – my inimitable guru Tam Fiofori passed away. Tam was...
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My Teacher Kongi Strikes 90

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When I broke the world exclusive news of Nobel Laureate publishing his latest novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,...
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Cries of Biafra and Woes of Nigeria

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We take so much pride in telling lies to ourselves as Nigerians. The Nigeria-Biafra war officially ended back in 1970, but so-called Nigerian leaders have...
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Reading Great Books that Changed the World

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The written word is lord over the universe. The coming of the internet instead of killing the book as prophesied by some never-do-wells has in...
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Rangers and Afrinvest: Partnership of Champions Ordained to Rule the Turf

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The crowning of Rangers International Football Club of Enugu as the winner of the 2023/24 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) is a resounding affirmation of...
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Odili Ujubuonu: 60 Years of Magic and Memorable Aesthetics

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Odili Ujubuonu is a Renaissance man, that is, he is among those rare beings who have their hands and grey matter in diverse pies....
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