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.
Africa

Buhari’s Nigeria Is Not My Nigeria

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
Things have fallen apart completely in Nigeria. Nothing has made many Nigerians lose faith in Nigeria more than the impunity reigning in Nigeria since...
Miscellaneous

This Is the Age of the Cow

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
I am sorry for any Nigerian who cannot speak the language of the cow. In truth, I am daily mastering cow language, and you do...
Arts & Books

Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka: The Poet Goes the Distance

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka; Griots Lounge Publishing Winnipeg, MB, Canada; 2020; 96pp  Devotion to poetry is a life sentence. Echezonachukwu Nduka is a lifer. In...
Sports

51 Years of Conquests by Rangers International of Enugu

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
When the Nigeria-Biafra war ended in January 1970, there was gloom in Igboland. Even as the then Head of State General Yakubu Gowon made...
Nigeria Matters

The Trouble with Nigeria Is A House

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
Chinua Achebe has stolen my thunder by stating that the trouble with Nigeria is leadership. In my own book, the trouble with Nigeria is a...
Interviews & Profiles

Remembering Nigeria’s Journalism Pathfinder Stanley Macebuh

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
Dr. Stanley Nkwachikwelumamaya Macebuh was a rare breed in the freshest sense of the term, a charge of fine electricity who all on his...
Miscellaneous

All that Jazz about Stingy Men’s Association of Nigeria

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
I have just been consulted to become the National Grand Patron of the newly formed Stingy Men’s Association of Nigeria (SMAN). Of course, I promptly...
Miscellaneous

Sending off “Sendforth”

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
The holler of “Happy New Year” is all over the place as the world is sending off the worst of years, that is, 2020,...
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