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.
Politics Archive
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How to Haunt a ‘Dozen’ Cities with the Ghost of Sani Abacha
Posted on March 9, 2012 | 2 CommentsAre you reading anything interesting? -
Return to Brunei: The London Launch of The Ghost of Sani Abacha.
Posted on January 17, 2012 | 7 CommentsWhat continues to excite me is the totally unpredictable consequences of opening up a book in public. -
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?'' -
A Formal Notice of Burials to Come
Posted on August 22, 2011 | 4 CommentsDo you enter public buildings? Prepare for your own funeral. -
The Obama Patriotic Theory on the Acceptable Slaughter of Humans
Posted on March 26, 2011 | 2 CommentsOverheard at a War Crimes Tribunal Satan expects every president to do his duty to his own nation – in the wars that follow, the Devil himself won't have to do a thing -
How to get a Ph.D from the London School of Economics
Posted on March 2, 2011 | No CommentsOught the priest remark the blood on the fingernails of the hand stretching for the collection bowl? -
This Revolution will not be Franchised
Posted on March 2, 2011 | 3 CommentsIn the realm of politics, franchises are also big business. Dictators with options on oil-producing – or otherwise strategic – countries can sign franchises with a superpower or the other. In return for military protection, UN Security Council veto services, Diplomacy PR services, revolution suppression, loot-laundry and similar services, the client dictator-franchisee guarantees military bases for its political franchisor and sweetheart deals for the franchisor's corporations. -
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. -
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.