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Homage in verse
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu pays homage to his
hometown in verse.
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The coming post-slavery
economics of right-is-might
In this essay, Peter Alexander (Ashikiwe)
Egom, remarks on the imminent end of
post-
slavery economics and ponders its
replacement.
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I must marry
A short story by Henry Chukwuemeka
Onyema.
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Memories and lines
Isidore Emeka Uzoatu pens poems to love,
politics and war.
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Communist America or the
real end of history?
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu examines how the defender
of the free market became the apostle of state
intervention....
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Pius Waritimi: Art in search of
meaning
Sculptor who deploys every part of a tree in
symbolic expression.
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Our Credulous Grammarian
Wole Soyinka's You Must Set Forth at Dawn
reviewed by Adewale Maja-Pearce.
Poetry: Language of the Gods
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu interviewed.
Lady
A short story by Jane Bryce
Conversation with Wole Soyinka
Nobel winner speaks with Dulue Mbachu on
the role of the writer, his political activism, Sea
Dogs and more.
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
shortlisted for Caine Prize
The New Gong writer, Uzoatu, is on the 2008
Caine Prize shortlist...
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In the Shadow of Mount Pelee
Interview with Aime Cesaire.
The New Gong at ALA 2007
Adewale Maja-Pearce recalls the atmosphere
at Morgantown, West Virginia.
Tribute to Fela
Excerpt from You Must set Forth at Dawn by
Wole Soyinka.
OLDER POSTINGS
From Onitsha Market Literature
to Home
Movies
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu revisits the spot where
Onitsha market literature first sprouted.
Remembering Beko - A Regular
Kuti
Isidore Emeka Uzoatu recalls an encounter
with Beko Ransome-Kuti.
Mungo Park: In Praise of African
Women
Adewale Maja-Pearce revisits the journals of
Mungo Park, the 18th century Scottish
explorer.
New Generator: 'I pass my
neighbour'
A short story by Eghosa Imasuen.
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Interview with Chinua Achebe
17 years after a telling conversation with
Chinua Achebe, Dulue Mbachu shares it
with one and all for the first time.
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Chants
Previously unpublished poems by Dulue
Mbachu.
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Under the Coconut Tree
Faction on the Niger Delta situation by John
Owubokiri
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Review of Wole Soyinka's You Must Set
Forth at Dawn
By Adewale Maja-Pearce
The Essential Fela!
The very things tha made Fela
Anikulapo-Kuti
an unusual artiste.
The Dog
A short story by
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Selling Africa
By Adewale
Maja-Pearce
Interview with Sharifa Johka
Viewing Obudu
through the lens of
George Osodi
The painting of Juliet Ezenwa
Maja-Pearce
Random songs by
Azubike Ufelle