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Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

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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.

  • Inside The Budding Jungle City of Stars

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu December 25, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    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, the bustling gateway into Nigeria’s …

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  • The Zik Mausoleum At Onitsha Needs Attention

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu December 18, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    A boon companion has just taken me to Onitsha, the city on the bank of the River Niger in Anambra State, and the only matter on my mind is the …

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  • Kunle Ajibade: The Legend of Conscience Abacha Could Not Kill

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu December 11, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    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, Mr Kunle Ajibade, belongs to …

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  • Uprooting Religious Dogma and Mental Enslavement

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu November 20, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    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 African Mind: Who We Were Before …

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  • Unstoppable Ngozi Wahala

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu November 13, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    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 her anywhere on Planet Earth. …

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  • The Return of Kwashiorkor

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu November 6, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    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 sight seeing malnourished children with …

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  • Rigger Takes All

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 30, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    Nigeria is in a class of its own. Other countries may talk of “winner takes all”, but in Nigeria the standing maxim is “rigger takes all.” If you don’t agree …

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  • This Fiction Called Nigeria  

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 28, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    There is a new hard-hitting book on my desk entitled This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce. It has just been published by Verso, in London, …

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  • How The ‘Pagan’ Wole Soyinka Saved A Born-Again Pastor Chuzzy Udenwa

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 16, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    Nothing divides Nigerians like religion, but I have it on good account that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who prefers Orisha to Christianity and Islam turned out the saving grace of …

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  • The Haunted House of Power

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 9, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    Let’s start out by reminding ourselves that a haunted house is almost always a place f horror stories. I know that Charles Dickens wrote a ghost story entitled “A Haunted …

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  • Keeping Pace with Soludo All Over Anambra State

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 6, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    It is well-nigh impossible keeping pace with the man who stressed from the very beginning that he was coming with “disruptive change”. Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, came as a …

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  • UNN Performs the Docudrama ‘Fela: The Man and His Music’ for Founder’s Day

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 5, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The docudrama Fela: The Man and His Music is a fact-driven story of Fela Anikulakpo-Kuti that focuses on the legendary musician’s defiant crusade against injustice in the brutal military era. …

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  • Nigeria @ 64: A Dangerous One-Party Diabolism

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 4, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The one-party phenomenon that ruined many African countries in the past is being regurgitated in modern-day Nigeria. It’s so obvious that gruesome tragedy is brewing all over the land that …

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  • There Was A Democracy

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu September 25, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The ultimate recommendation of democracy is this: where a party performs badly it gets voted out. In these shores, it is a different ball game. Even if a party unleashes …

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  • A Different Brand of Governor’s Wife

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu September 23, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    What instantly seized my attention was the mention of “Governor’s wife”. The reporter’s instinct in me immediately got into fine fettle. Like the character Al Barney in James Hadley Chase’s …

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  • A Nigerian Marshall Plan Is Needed Today

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu September 5, 2024
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The Nigerian economy is in dire straits, and many families cannot make ends meet in the drive for survival. Most of the presidents of African countries have just travelled to …

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