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.
Essay Archive
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Upon Writing into my Father’s Notebook
Posted on April 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsTo see that humanity is a collaborative work in progress, where everyone writes their lives in a book that no one fully owns. -
Sacrificing the Next Generation; Lessons from Abraham
Posted on September 16, 2011 | 2 CommentsOur youth have both the brains and the brawn. They have the vote, they have the skills, they have the visions. They have all it takes to take control of their societies. Yet, the only nattering we hear? 'Where's the ram, Papa?' 'Where's the ram?'' -
The Tragic Life and Death of a Short Story
Posted on September 15, 2011 | 10 CommentsI raised her with the best of hopes. She seemed a prize winner from the start, the way her sentences flowed, each paragraph tastefully asserted by a scintillating metaphor.