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.
Places
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The Ramselling Truthangel of Zambaputu
Posted on November 7, 2011 | 5 CommentsWherefore this travesty, this hypocrisy, whereby the big thief sentences the small thief while other thieves applaud? -
Infusion 20 & The Mystery of the Good Reading
Posted on September 30, 2011 | 7 CommentsThe secret of a reading is that it is NOT about the reading. The reader can read a writer's work more effectively in private. More cheaply too. -
Reading in Abuja
Posted on September 29, 2011 | No CommentsDiaries of a Dead African, at Abuja tonight... -
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. -
What’s for Lunch?
Posted on September 8, 2011 | 2 CommentsOkada may refer to: ...commercial motorcycles in Nigeria;.... Wikipedia -
Ancestral Stone
Posted on September 3, 2011 | 1 CommentAmong that tribe of broken folk who never saw their kin again, he was Mister Broken Leg himself, for his mother was the village ace with a grindstone. -
The Secret Diary of the Witchdoctor’s Writer-in-Residence (7)
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 3 CommentsHe cleared his throat. 'It was a very sad case. Unfortunately my grandfather didn't teach me anything about curing homosexuality.' He cleared his throat again and glared at me, 'Make sure you don't write anything about this, you hear?' -
On hearing Screams from Abuja
Posted on August 26, 2011 | 8 CommentsCondolences, one and all... -
A Formal Notice of Burials to Come
Posted on August 22, 2011 | 4 CommentsDo you enter public buildings? Prepare for your own funeral.