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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The Hungry Road
‘the hungry road, she sees the madly-burdened biker’
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The New Asymptote
New Asymptote edition
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The Mongrelisation of Nigerian English
The Nigerian accent is a valid, beautiful variation of the spoken English.
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Gari on Trial
The eba steamed lazily. It is not even nutritious, said the beans-eaters, desperately,
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The OPB Specialist
-What does it matter who is paying for the beer? You’re still going to be drunk by midnight!
-On another person’s beer, that’s different. -
Chinua Achebe [ 16 November 1930 – 22 March 2013]
Rest in Peace, Albert Chinualumogo Achebe
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The Seductive Yellowness of Yams
You will ask me how I could tell all this just by the aroma and a tasting, but the nose knows, my dear, the nose and the tongue, they know everything
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How to Write Real Stories.
The beauty of the Real Story betrays no sign of the blood and sweat that went into her creation
Previously,
Places
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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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Environment
A Day in the Life (2 of 365 – The Metaphor of the Flying Bonnet)
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Literature
Prayer before Flight
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Environment
Making (& unmaking) a State in the Name of Art
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Literature
Sudan on YouTube
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travel
Sudan! Sudan!
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