Isaac Attah Ogezi
Born in 1976, Isaac Attah Ogezi attended the University of Jos, Jos, Plateau State where he obtained his LL.B (Hons) in 2002. He proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Abuja, and was called to the Nigerian Bar on 12 October, 2004. Currently, he is a practising lawyer based at Keffi, Nasarawa State of Nigeria. He is published in The Rocks Cry Out (an anthology of ANA, Jos Chapter, 2002), Five Hundred Nigerian Poets (2005) and several national dailies in Nigeria. He writes plays, poems, short stories and literary essays.
Entries by this Author
Between Fantasy and Reality in Maiwada’s Musdoki
- By Isaac Attah Ogezi
- Published July 23, 2010
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Apart from the central theme of love, Musdoki can well be regarded as a reprisal novel to Adichie’s sectional novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, as seen from the eyes of a northern Nigerian zealot-narrator. All the sins of Southern Nigerians against Northerners in this ill-fated union are well-chronicled...Gone with the Night – A Short Story by Isaac Attah Ogezi
- By Isaac Attah Ogezi
- Published December 2, 2009
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Thanks for sending me the pictures of your Mr. Right as email attachments. When I saw them, I couldn’t restrain myself from celebrating aloud at the cyber café. I guess my neighbours who stopped momentarily to look at me must be wondering what had got into this girl. You don’t have to blame me. I was simply beside myself with joy. If I couldn’t do it, my friend has done it for me...The Making of Habila’s 'Waiting For An Angel' - A Review
- By Isaac Attah Ogezi
- Published September 9, 2009
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It is too glaring that Habila did not do any special re-working on his Prison Stories but hurriedly re-packaged it under a different title as a novel. Thence comes the failure of Waiting for an Angel as a novel. Short stories, no matter how mystically re-arranged, cannot make a novel...Ghost - A Short Story by Isaac Attah Ogezi
- By Isaac Attah Ogezi
- Published September 10, 2007
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He had been gone for more than two hours now leaving his entire family in the middle of nowhere. And what a horrifying place for him to stop them to go and empty his bowels?
A Celebration Of Zaynab Alkali's The Descendants
- By Isaac Attah Ogezi
- Published May 6, 2007
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The literary enclave is indeed full of cynics who parade themselves as critics. When an unknown writer scores a literary success, these avowed cynics would quickly dismiss it with a snobbish wave of the hand as a stroke of luck. Let us see how he or she will repeat this performance...