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

Laptop Presidency Powers Twitter Democracy

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Nigerians are “wailing wailers”, according to the most excited arse-licker of the government of change and terrorism. It’s another season of wailing for Nigerians now...
Environment

The Rage of Mbize Erosion in Southeast Nigeria

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Mbize: Rage of Red Earth (Stories, Songs on Landslide, Erosion in Igboland) by Chuka Nnabuife; Heinrich Boll Stiftung; 2011   The erosion menace in Southeast Nigeria...
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Let’s Sell Nigeria Today

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Nigeria as a country has served all its useful and useless purposes, and must perforce be sold for good. I have spoken. I cannot just understand...
Technology & Science

The Anambra Broadband Initiative

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Anambra State scored a remarkable feat on March 30 by becoming the first state in Nigeria to bring together eminent stakeholders in a conference...
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Jega Goes Jaga-jaga

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Confusion has taken over the entire land of Nigeria. To use the popular parlance, “everything is now jaga-jaga!” As I write now, the music of Eedris...
Arts & Books

Architects of the Nollywood Phenomenon

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Reflections on Nigerian Movie Industry: Salute to Pioneering Creativity and Perseverance by Femi Akintunde-Johnson; Basic Skills Academy (ISBN 978-1-716-08239-9); 2021; 158pp    Nigeria is celebrated across...
Interviews & Profiles

The Indispensible Economist Prof Uka Ezenwe

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While going through a WhatsApp group recently I beheld the icon: Emeritus Professor Uka Ezenwe, the venerated dean of legions of economists who has...
Miscellaneous

Let’s Destroy all the Columnists!

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The acute hatred in my heart now-now, as we do say in Nigeria, is about the characters called columnists. I am sick and tired of...
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