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

Boko Haram Regime of Repainted Terrorists

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
The powers-that-be of Boko Haram have never had it so good. It’s as though they are in power. Who has not heard that 601 so-called...
Arts & Books

Towering Testaments To A Worthy Wayfarer

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
Professor Pius Adebola Adesanmi belongs to the class of people larger than life and death. When news filtered out that he was one of...
Position Papers

There Was A Warrior Called Ojukwu

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
He did not deliver on his promise to write “The Book” before his death. The fact that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu did not publish a book...
Arts & Books

Sneak Preview of Udenta’s 21-Book Offering

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
The 21 books came to me in two gift paper-bags from the scholar Udenta O. Udenta. The priceless present came along with a 34-page...
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Waiting for the 90th: Two poems to WS @ 70 and 80

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
ENIGMATA (TO WOLE SOYINKA @ 70) You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yetAligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed in straight draughtsYet stooped to...
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Nigeria As A Confederacy of Dunces

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
Let me start with a confession. I borrowed the title of this piece from the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John...
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Thunder Strikes 86 Times In Celebration Of Wole Soyinka

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
Even the elements are not left out: Lightning! Thunder! They all celebrate Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka, that is, Wole Soyinka for short.             Wole Soyinka threw...
Nigeria Matters

Nigerian Political Woman’s Hell On Earth

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
The Nigerian political woman is hardly ever allowed by the men who control the parties to get elected into high office. The women have to...
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