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.
Poetry Archive
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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... -
Diary Girl
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsI remember no yesterdays. They erase as I sleep and all I have on their morrows are a newly-rinsed mind and my many-coloured notebooks with dates on their spines. -
The Vennyans are Coming
Posted on November 16, 2010 | No CommentsIf you are trapped in the lift with your smartphone today and Maintenance doesn’t arrive for an hour, don’t waste that time on games, or Facebook, or in googling yourself.... -
The Falling Value of Human Life
Posted on November 3, 2010 | 2 CommentsIn literature as in life, when death is piled upon death it ceases to 'translate'. 50 Die in Church House Slaughter, 900,000 Die in Eight Month Campaign... we can read these statistics without tears, hear them on the news without cost to appetite... whereas the cat caught in our lawnmower blade may well traumatise us for life -
‘Slovo’ is Slovak for ‘Word’
Posted on November 1, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe whole idea of festive uniforms tends to underline the disconcerting proximity between our seasons of ostentation and those of want...