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.
inspirational 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. -
This Land is Mine
Posted on January 16, 2012 | 5 Comments(and you can take this how you will, but) these double-breasted hills, bronze fields of windblown corn, this scarpland north of Udi Hills, these are my mother’s arms & the... -
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. -
A Formal Notice of Burials to Come
Posted on August 22, 2011 | 4 CommentsDo you enter public buildings? Prepare for your own funeral. -
Why Yesterday?
Posted on January 16, 2011 | 3 CommentsI have an eye on Yesterday, because it is our true homeland. -
Okey Ndibe & The Ghost of Sani Abacha
Posted on January 9, 2011 | 2 CommentsCritical voices are part of the equation of a Renascent Nigeria and the Presidential message of moderation is one that should go, both to the terrorists taking a cue from the Bomber of Dele Giwa, to public servant extremists who constitute the claw ends of the renascent ghost of Sani Abacha. -
Not so, Adaobi…
Posted on December 12, 2010 | 5 Commentswholesale cultural suicide is too high a price to pay for national unity -
The Mo Ibrahim Prize vs. The Spoilt Brat Prize for African Leadership
Posted on December 11, 2010 | 11 CommentsThe Spoilt Brat Prize for African Leadership is awarded annually by prize committees of morally bankrupt armies, sleepy citizens, and timid neighbouring heads of state. Recent winners include Robert (Lose-an-Election-Throw-a-Tantrum) Mugabe. The 2008 prize went to President Mwai (I'm-Going-Nowhere) Kibaki of Kenya. Ex-President Laurent Gbagbo is a front-runner for the 2010 prize. -
Dear Laurent Gbagbo
Posted on December 6, 2010 | 17 CommentsDue to the scarcity of African ex-presidents (your colleagues - for some reason - prefer to retire to mausoleums) you may be in a position to commence a lucrative career on the international circuit as a much fêted public speaker.