The gripping collection of ten short stories, Blood Will Call, by Sola Osofisan, aptly depicts a committed soul laden with the call of writing by blood. Sola...
Author - 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.
Chinua Achebe died at exactly 11:51pm (US time). That is 4.51am (Nigerian time), on Thursday, March 21 at the Harvard University Teaching Hospital...
Circus of the Absurd by Deji Rahman Kraftgriots, Kraft Books Limited, Ibadan; 2012 The short story craft is quite enthralling when it works well. Unlike the...
The text message was short and sharp and to the point: “Your friend Dennis Brutus died early today”. It was December 26 and I was in my village getting into...
By the Waters of Uchu As spirits jostle In the mother market Deep in the jungles of Nne-Nkwo Eight mouths gift The fountainhead of the lake That laves stream...
The Obama Ballad History beckons the unities Soul song of sovereignty A universe unbound by ballot By one race: the human race. Rosa sits out hate Martin walks...
The presentation of the book Journeys Around and with Kongi: Half a Century on the Road with Wole Soyinka written by the ebullient German journalist...
I Did the Dummy of ThisDay (For Nduka Obaigbena at 50) I did the dummy of ThisDay, A copy turned cradle, A deed of second service For a swashbuckling vendor of...
I tell stories. That is my life. I gather stories and I tell them. The twist in the tale is that I get into the stories and I act. I lost an ear in the course...
