About Me
I am Chuma Nwokolo, writer, advocate. If you like poetry, you should read my Memories of Stone. If you are into fiction, try my Diaries of a Dead African or The Ghost of Sani Abacha.
If you don't read much, beyond blogs and stuff, you'll probably love my Extinction of Menai, Diary of a Witch-Doctor's Writer-in-Residence, and a dozen other novels of that ilk, because they're not yet published.
Welcome to my blog.
New:
Kindle version of The Ghost of Sani Abacha.Kindle version of Diaries of a Dead African
Welcome
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Why we are no Longer at Ease
Let us dream a simple dream made fantastic by our present circumstances. Let us dream of a Nigeria that works, that evokes pride, and that inspires faith. Let us dream of a Nigeria of servant-leaders and sacrificial statesmen, a Nigeria which calls the best characteristics out of ordinary men and women. Let us call on that capacity for renewal to bring opportunity out of this crisis.
Let us recreate the excitement – and the possibilities – with which we approached the Independence Day of 1960
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If you missed London, there’s still Oxford…
Join me if you can.
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Great Dark Stories of the World
Are there great, dark, stories that should never have been told? Most profoundly yes. There are tales of great artistic value that burn, irrestorably, their readers’ peace of mind. Tales…
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Justice v. Amnesty; [Day 1 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']
Amnesty is a soup that is odious, without the salt of Justice
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The River Writes You a Memo; [Day 2 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']
Poem of the Day: A River Memo Theme: Acts of God/Natural Disasters. Once, a long time ago, following a series of fatal accidents that involved buses flying off the Third…
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Population? Zero. [Day 3 Countdown to the Final testament of a minor god]
Poem of the Day: Extinction Theme: Mortality When I was through laying out my new collection of poems, The Final Testament of a Minor God, I had cause to look…
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The Iroko Mafia [Day 4 Countdown to the Final testament of a minor god]
I do not know what he was thinking,
but he planted me in a flower pot -
Anniversary of the Firstborn; [Day 5 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']
the Igbo word for love, ‘ifunanya’ = the English ‘I see you tenderly with my eyes’.
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Prayer before Flight; [Day 6 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']
bless me with a pilot that has learnt how to take-off
and land,
Previously,
Places
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Food
Loving and Dining in the Coal City
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Environment
A Traveller’s Notebook; Lost in Kampala
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diary
A Traveller’s Notebook; That Fortnight in Hargeysa
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humour
A Traveller’s Notebook: Layover in Addis Abeba
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Memoir
The Children of Laas Geel
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Literature
The British Pub; (a brief guide for the thirsty tourist)
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Literature
The Hungry Road
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Essay
A Day in the Life (4 of 365 – Emotional Geography)
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