Chidi Kazie was my best friend. We first met in JSS1 at St. Finbarr’s College, Akoka, Yaba. That was the day our fathers came to complete our registration...
Author - Henry Chukuwuemeka Onyema
Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema was born in 1975 and educated at Imo State University and Lagos State University. He is a Lagos-based writer and teacher.
They say music has power, enormous power. As a professional I wholeheartedly subscribed to that view; even taught it to my students in class and could easily...
I might as well admit it at the beginning: I am no poet. Although I have scribbled some lines over the years, whether they stand up to poetic standards is in...
Jane was upfront. ‘You wan do? 20 LITERS OF PETROL.’ Ogba could not believe his ears. He looked at this 21st century Nigerian reincarnation of Cleopatra; her...
Perhaps it would be dishonest to begin by stating that I never planned that it should happen. This is because at the back of my mind, that mysterious depthless...
PART 1 When I walked into the then staff room of the Junior School arm of St. Gregory’s College, Lagos, for the first time, I had an open mind. I had no...
Rose took another deep breath and wondered what a world without men would be like. A planet without unthinking, brutal, conscienceless, testerone-driven males...
TITLE: THE FUNERAL DID NOT END AUTHOR: SYLVA NZE IFEDIGBO PUBLISHERS: DADA BOOKS, LAGOS, NIGERIA PAGES: 299 On my way home from work that rain-moistened...
I must begin this article by stating that few aspects of Nigeria’s history have held me captive like the coup of January 15 1966. For close to a decade, well...
At just thirty-five Uche Peter Umez (fully known as Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike), a senior staff of ABC Transport Company, Nigeria, has earned himself a...
Nigerian literature predates Nigeria’s independence. As far back as 1789 Olaudah Equiano, a former Igbo slave, published his account of his life in bondage and...
It was supposed to be a routine assignment, but Daniyan Kalo had been uneasy from the moment he received the directive. As the H-hour approached, his...