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.
Interviews & Profiles

This Oba Man Called Obi Cubana

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Nothing has shaken up Nigeria in recent times than the astounding burial of Obi Cubana’s mother in Oba town in Anambra State. The social media...
Sports

From Home To Rome Football Quakes The Earth

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Football is earthquake larger than the Richter scale. I should know because I played the game. In certain locales more people know me as an...
Interviews & Profiles

87 Spells Immortality In The Wole Soyinka Canon

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He was so daring early in life that nobody gave him any chance to live up to 87 years on this earth. But here...
Nigeria Matters

When Obasanjo & Uba Brothers Dealt with Anambra State

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In the halcyon days of his regime, President Olusegun Obasanjo touted Christianity and Pharisaical prayers. He had a sedulous apostle in then Anambra Governor,...
Arts & Books

From Wild, Wild West To National Inferno

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A seemingly innocuous spark in an otherwise isolated part of a nation can change the course of history. Nigerian history as we have it...
Arts & Books

Writers Are Licensed To Kill

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Writers can kill. The creative writer plays God by creating people on paper and destroying lives at will with an ordinary pencil or pen or...
Interviews & Profiles

The Example of Viko TV

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Television can be quite arresting, especially if one is in the studio being served news, politics, the economy and sports in real time. It...
Miscellaneous

If You Want To Write A Great Book, Go To Prison

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I am allergic to dictators, even if they somehow manage to dress up in democratic robes. Nigerians cannot ever forget in a hurry how some...
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