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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When Obasanjo Fired A Letter Bomb at Goodluck Jonathan

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Nigerians forget all too quickly. Many of my countrymen and women have of course forgotten the bomb of a letter that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo sent...
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Sad Sam Smiles @ 85

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The iconic publisher of Vanguard newspapers, Sam Amuka-Pemu, remains as ever a self-effacing Nigerian patriot of uncommon class and carriage. Call him “Sad Sam” or...
Sports

How Enugu Rangers Won The War For The Vanquished

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Football is the greatest instrument that unites Nigeria. Whenever the national team, the Super Eagles, is on song all Nigerians become united in an...
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Big Country, Small President

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The powers-that-be of Nigeria take great pleasure in describing the country as the “Giant of Africa.” A towering giant is not expected to have a...
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Sonala Strikes Sixty-Five

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Friday, May 15, in this Corona-tainted year of 2020 marks the 65th birthday of the inimitable journalist’s journalist Sonala Olumhense. I doubt that I would...
Arts & Books

Deadening Nightmares: A Review

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Living Dreams by Obu Udeozo; Fab Educational Books, Jos, Nigeria; 2020; 326pp Obu Udeozo has earned high accolades as a prolific poet in Nigeria, remarkably...
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Odia Ofeimun at 70: A Toast to the Health of the Master Poet

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There is no better way of introducing Odia Ofeimun than pointedly stressing that “Odia Ofeimun is Odia Ofeimun!” Enough said. Poet, publisher, editor, activist, polemicist, mentor,...
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Nollywood as Handshake Across the Niger

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Nigerian politicians always talk of the need for a handshake across the Niger. The politicos have from the First Republic been talking of forging an...
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