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Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

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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.

  • Emeka Ozumba – A Profile in Industry

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu December 8, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The overarching consensus amongst his compatriots is that Emeka Ozumba is unassuming but quietly effective. Cool, calm, calculated and compassionate, the personable go-getter clocks 60 years of age on December …

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  • Let’s Forge Patriotism In Nigeria

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu December 1, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    It’s quite easy to be misunderstood once any bloke talks about forging something in this country called Nigeria. There are so many accusations of forgeries all over the place such …

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  • Oratory Symposium Powered by Ozigbo

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu November 25, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The message can straight out of the blues that I had been appointed a chief judge. Please I was not made an electoral political judge, but rather I was made …

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  • Fear of Revolution Is Here

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu November 24, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The people who used to shout most about the need for a revolution to happen in Nigeria are now the blokes making many arguments against revolution. The former activists and …

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  • Zik’s Day Beckons

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu November 19, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The man fondly called Zik of Africa deserves his day. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first president, deserves his birthday, November 16, to be slated as a national …

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  • Grand Ofala of Igwe (Sir) Raphael N. Offor of Omogho

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu November 19, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    Igwe (Sir) Raphael N. Offor, KSM, JP, AMB. P breaks bold ground as he celebrates Ofala on 31st December. 2023. He was crowned Ide II of Omogho in November 2005, …

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  • Joblessness Does Not Frighten The Poet

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu November 8, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    It is in my DNA to make very powerful enemies. It’s as though I cannot stop myself from fighting diabolical principalities and powers, and their agents and toadies. Only the …

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  • Tribalism Is The Emperor Of All Isms

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 25, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    Tribalism is the ism topping all isms! All the talk of Socialism, Communism, Humanism and so on must now be put on one side to make way for the true …

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  • Once Upon A Life On The Dangerous Seas

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 18, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The talk of oil thieves across the waters of the Niger Delta has made me to remember the journeys I undertook through the seas and waters once upon a dangerous …

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  • Nigeria’s Self-inflicted Moral Burden of Shame

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 11, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    Nigeria has reduced itself to the butt of the crudest jokes all over the world. Forgery at the highest echelon of power in the land has put a bad patch …

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  • Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa @ 82

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 10, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, famously known as Ken Saro-Wiwa, would have been 82 today, October 10. My lionized friend packed too many lifetimes into one life. His hanging by the General …

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  • An Airport For Achebe

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu October 4, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    There is a Chinua Achebe International Airport in Anambra State. It was a spectacular masterstroke from Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo when he renamed the Anambra Airport at Umueri after Chinua …

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  • Federal Republic of Fiction @ 63

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu September 27, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new shelf in the library: the shelf containing fictional works. The latter-day patriots of Nigeria can cry all they want against me, …

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  • Sports Minister Enoh Charges Ezenwanne To Win Para-Powerlifting Medals For Nigeria

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu September 15, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    Nigeria’s Sports Minister John Enoh is poised to take Para-Powerlifting to a new height in Nigerian sports. At a recent meeting of the Presidents of Sports Federations in Abuja, the …

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  • Dancing to the Music of a Ticking Time-Bomb

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu September 13, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    It’s a terrible Nigerian fate that every so-called democratic election is delivered like a ticking time-bomb primed to explode with fatal menace. The unfathomable aspect of the matter is that …

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  • Prof Ernest Igwe: A Dean’s Example

    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu September 10, 2023
    by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

    In a season that university professors were being rubbished as pathetic election riggers, it came as a pleasant surprise to me that there’s one university don who could put himself …

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