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.
Environment Archive
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Buck-Passing in the Gulf of Mexico
Posted on October 29, 2010 | No CommentsThe world of the multinational is a rapidly shrinking one - staff and resources circulate incestuously in one mobile industry. When lax standards are accepted in one part of the world they will eventually come to roost in other parts where disasters are neither as easy to ignore, nor as cheap to sort. -
Funding the Ministry of Attack
Posted on October 20, 2010 | 1 CommentWhat happens to a bomb deferred? Does it dry up or fester, et cetera? Actually, it just explodes; like the arsenal that blew up hundreds of innocents in a Lagos munitions dump back in 2002. -
The Art of War vs. The War of Art
Posted on September 12, 2010 | No CommentsAnd yet the Arts face a greater threat than recession: competition from the most unlikely theatre, that of War. Instruments of war have been transmogrified into Art -
America's Finest Moment (No. …?)
Posted on January 15, 2010 | 3 CommentsThere will also be time to reflect on the historical injustices suffered by that island state, and to do something about it. But this is a moment, simply to say 'thank you America'. -
Making (& unmaking) a State in the Name of Art
Posted on December 22, 2009 | 2 CommentsAlex Hartley's Nowhereisland Project has Chuma Nwokolo wishing for a Ministry of Common Sense. -
Finding Thinkstone
Posted on April 2, 2009 | 1 CommentIt may be exiled here in Guernsey but it is still its own self. It still bears a rough facet that will match the cliff from whence it was chipped, whether on the cliffs of Sark or Mauritania. It is craggy and inarticulate. Gruff, dour. Unamenable. Almost obsidian, dense. -
Sub-Atlantic Accidents
Posted on February 18, 2009 | No CommentsQuestion: How do you top a story on a collision of satellites in outer space? Answer: With a story of a collision of submarines in the Atlantic ocean. It was the... -
The Human Stain
Posted on February 12, 2009 | No CommentsThus far, we had kept our contagion earthside. On this epochal day of our outing, we have taken a giant step for the human stain. -
Capital Punishment and the Multinational; the case for Corporate Executions
Posted on December 23, 2007 | 4 CommentsI am going to have to go back quite a few yesterdays to write this post. Right back to the nineteenth century in fact, when on this day, 179 years ago,...