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... -
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... -
A September Eleven Poem
Posted on September 11, 2010 | 4 Comments'The World Changed forever on September, 11, 2010' 'Really?' -
Upon finally learning ‘How to Euthanise a Cactus’
Posted on September 10, 2010 | 3 CommentsI had been wondering how to Euthanise a Cactus, ever since I first stumbled upon the title of Stephen Derwent Partington's second poetry collection. -
Prayer before Flight
Posted on January 11, 2010 | 5 CommentsWhen the prodding wand comes my way let it beep briefly, and be gone