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.
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Shall We Tell The President?

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I borrowed this title from the British thriller writer, Jeffery Archer, but I am in no mood to discuss that disgraced man’s book. Nigeria is...
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Nigeria Prize for Literature Must Stop Being Winner Takes All

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The celebrated season of the Nigeria Prize for Literature always ends on the note of winner-takes-all. It is incumbent on me to plead now that...
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The Legend of Yebo Gogo Man Kole Omotoso

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The news that came from Johannesburg, South Africa on July 19 was heartrending: Kole Omotoso is dead! The lionized writer, Kole Omotoso, was my teacher...
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Life in My City Art Festival @ Awka

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Zik’s Avenue is arguably the most hurly-burly road in Awka, the capital city of Anambra State, but tucked inside Number 261 is seminal serenity....
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Marriage By Facebook Dissolves On Twitter

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I am too ancient to understand the bytes and cookies of this new age of fast weddings and faster divorces. You can log in to...
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Let’s Throw In The Towel To Save Nigerians From Annihilation

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I am here to eat my words, that is, to swallow my own vomit. Back in time, I had written that it’s time for the...
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President Tinubu Discovers Ice In Macondo

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Let the whole wide world join me in universal celebration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has just repeated the immortal feat of discovering...
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Grappling with the Heart of the Nigerian Matter

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
Politics, Economics & the Nigerian Petroleum Industry (3rd Edition) Essays by Austin Avuru; RADI8 Ltd, Lagos; 2022; 474pp Let’s start with a confession. This book,...
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