tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231906545338158202011-12-24T10:59:08.363+01:00Poetry, Reviews, Opinions, Prose etc. Facts and Fiction!Severus Snapehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09328122059605682933noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823190654533815820.post-81955555836771097232011-12-23T16:06:00.002+01:002011-12-23T16:06:46.933+01:00

BIOGRAPHY This multitalented artist has been a familiar face on South African television screens since 2003, with a memorable role on SA’s favorite soapie, Generations. However it was Antonio's break through performance in an episode of Fox's New York Undercover entitled "Toy Soldiers" set the tone for the success's that followed. Since his role on NY Undercover, a successful domino effect

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So there's this sick new joint out! Emcees Barzini and Kid M.A.R.L.E.Y team up to deliver in this song, On My Way. You can download from any of the links below. Meanwhile, follow barzini on Twitter, @iAmBarzini and @330republic 360Nobs: http://bit.ly/nyRVqr Museke: www.museke.com/node/8752 TalkOfNaija: http://bit.ly/pBHWjm TooXclusive: http://p.ost.im/p/E4Nqt AmeyawDebrah.com: http://bit.ly

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Morning, fellas! Over the next few weeks, I will be doing a series with South African writer, Abigail George. Some of her poetry and works will be put up here intermittently. Please follow this blog to keep updated on the series. Here's Part 1: Prose Poetry by Abigail George Introduction It is very hard to fall in love with something and give yourself over to it completely.  Why do I write?

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PRESS RELEASE     BLUES & HILLS Consultancy and Africa Film Academy call for interested aspiring filmmakers to register for the Scriptwriting and Directing Masterclass Workshop, to be facilitated by Indian filmmaker and cinematographer, Naresh Sharma on 25 March, 2011 at Niger Delta Wetland Centre, Ekike, Yenogoa, in Bayelsa State. He will be joined by Nigerian filmmaker, Bond Emeruwa and

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The city of Yenogoa is ready to host the world.  This time, it is happening same time as the AMAA. Occupying an exceptional cultural location, Yenogoa is multilingual and cosmopolitan. It has deep roots of the rich past, with a strong tradition of literature, craft and art. This is reflected in the dress sense of the people. There is colour and total beauty to it. BLUES & HILLS, the arts

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If you were asked what Africa’s contributions to the world are what would come to mind? Ancient Egypt perhaps, maybe Great Zimbabwe? Timbuktu? Mandela?  Or rooibos tea, as the Google search reveals. For the 3rd Issue Made in Africa, we would like to explore the meaningful contributions, inventions, innovations, trends that Africans have made to the world through business, music,

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If you were asked what Africa’s contributions to the world are what would come to mind? Ancient Egypt perhaps, maybe Great Zimbabwe? Timbuktu? Mandela?  Or rooibos tea, as the Google search reveals. For the 3rd Issue Made in Africa, we would like to explore the meaningful contributions, inventions, innovations, trends that Africans have made to the world through business, music, language,

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Mr. President, I remember that sometime in August last year as I sweated out yet another night of power outage, I promised myself I would vote for you when you eventually decided to run for the office of president. You had just launched the roadmap for the power sector and I had, typical Nigerian that I am, begun to hope afresh. At the time, there were declarations of interest and rumours of

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Mr. President, I remember that sometime in August last year as I sweated out yet another night of power outage, I promised myself I would vote for you when you eventually decided to run for the office of president. You had just launched the roadmap for the power sector and I had, typical Nigerian that I am, begun to hope afresh. At the time, there were declarations of interest and rumours of

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Voices Of 2011 is a project coordinated by a group of young Nigerians who want to by any way legally and morally possible, get as many young Nigerians to register, vote and participate in the overall 2011 elections process as explained in the RSVP concept. R- Register to vote S- Select a Credible Candidate V- Vote on the set dates P- Protect your vote Voices Of 2011 is primarily

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Hi. Please check and attend to this as soon as possible. And please spread the news. Voices Of 2011 is a project coordinated by a group of young Nigerians who want to by any way legally and morally possible, get as many young Nigerians to register, vote and participate in the overall 2011 elections process as explained in the RSVP concept. R- Register to vote S- Select a Credible

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By Eromo Egbejule You can be forgiven if at first meeting, you think Onyeka Nwelue is a Rastafarian. He looks like one, no thanks to his dreads and lanky frame. At present though, this 22-year old -who is probably about to make history as the youngest film director in all of Africa- is, like rapper Terry tha Rapman says, is not smiling! Well, why should he? As director of a

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Interview conducted by Eromo Egbejule 22-year old award-winning writer and journalist, Onyeka Nwelue is set to direct his debutant movie, The Distant Light in the coming weeks. To help make the movie a success, he has recruited two big players in the Dutch movie industry, Siad Mahmoud Ali and Marten Kopp to do the magic behind the camera. Siad is the Director of Photography while

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Jack Of All TradesI was born of a thousand mothersFrom fragments of the loins of an adulterous fatherDiverse is the spirit of this carnivalOf me paranormalI am a spectacleFor the cinemaI am the stalk and the receptacleI am Jack of all trades.

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Hi everyone.Its been awhile.Right now, everyone's going agog about The Pilgrimages, an interactive and interesting experience that will be organized by Farafina. Details are given underneath this.Pilgrimages: Thirteen African Writers. Thirteen Cities. Thirteen Books The Pilgrimages Project Pilgrimages is a ground-breaking, pan-African project organised by The Chinua Achebe Center, Bard

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Hey peeps,It's been a long and pretty uneventful while, no thanks to my exams and the extended 2008/2009 session which ended for me some days ago. Last week however, something funny happened. I mean funny, as in worrisome and not funny as in hilarious, so take note.In between hurrying to tidy up a few things, I left my wallet in a taxi cab. My nightmare had just begun. I had a pretty large sum in

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Even though this is coming so late, I still think its better to just say it.Happy New Year, folks.

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As strange as it sounds, the Shepherd's Psalm was a source of worry tome when I was about the tender age of four/five.No, it never gave me nightmares. Instead,what intrigued me was theline 'I shall not want'.To my naive mind, I could not fathom why the silly shepherd would not'want' the same lord he'd just declared subservience to.Was this a typo, I asked myself? Had the printers mistakingly

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It's really hard to write these days but I know I owe myself a duty to do this post. Over the past few days, I've been under really intense pressure and as usual, the main way to offload it is by spitting it out.See, this year has been the worst in all my years on earth. Earlier in the year, I did rebel against God plus I lost my best friend to Uncle Sam. My worst ever academic results came this

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DRUMLINE Media and the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) present the NSUKKA BOOK TREK on 7th November, 2009 at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Faculty of Arts Boardroom, from 11- 3 pm.MC/Compere: Lorenzo 'Sugarboy' Menakaya - 91.1 Lion FMVisiting Author: Eghosa ImasuenEghosa Imasuen, a Nigerian novelist, was born on 19 May 1976 . He has had his short fiction published in online magazines like

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Book: Obsessed: Tom DekkerPublishing: WestBow Press (2005), 382pp.In this 52-chaptered, one-word titled novel, Ted Dekker manages to almost shatter my respect for him, lending credence to the brushed-up axiom: not all that is gold glitters all the time.Set in a surprisingly tranquil Los Angeles and Germany, Dekker delves in and out of the 40s and 70s with commendable dexterity and his usual

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 I could not resist the temptation to blog about the eating habits of villagers in the ‘olden days’ so I had to hurry and write this short/half post. Some days ago, I saw this Nollywood movie, Omaba (which as is usual with them Nollywood movies, was in three parts) about a primitive village where Oge Okoye was the proud daughter of a king who, in a bid to keep his word, sacrifices an innocent man

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I am a weird person. Yes I know.I dream weird dreams. Yes I do.Sometimes when I was younger and in the process of daydreaming (it's one of my hobbies, you know), I would dream that one day when I returned from school, I would see so many people weeping and throwing themselves to the ground right in front of my house. I would -like Zorro, man of the people- go to the rescue. I would get there and

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Hi Blogville,Pardon my over one month AWOL. I am back after exams and all the all and all (ha ha ha!).Meanwhile, enjoy this poem.CAREFREEThis night within the Cellar of Desire, the warmth of Pleasure's Embracewill push Me onwardsto Satisfaction's End, to Memory Loss, thenoncoming Danger; Death of Me.

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EXTENSION OF DEADLINE:In order to afford the voting public adequate time to vote for their favourite authors and books, Drumline Media has deemed it fit to extend the period of voting for the Drumline Media Book Awards (DMBA) to 21st May, 2009.All votes received after this date will automatically be disqualified. Winners will be announced in the week following.At the moment, there are some

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Drumline Media announces the 2009 Drumline Media Book Awards.US:Drumline Media is an organization managed by students and it publishes “drumline”, a bimonthly campus newspaper.THE AWARDS:Drumline Media Book Awards is a yearly award to deserving authors, who against all odds have worked towards humanity, through the use of words to create characters that live within and around us. It is an honest

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A few chapters into Onyeka Nwelue’s The Abyssinian Boy, you will do as I did, put a finger as a wedge on the particular page you’ve halted and quickly turn to the back of this two-act, 15-chapter-ed 260-page-d novel to re-read the synopsis and check whether it really is a debut. It is; and your shrill na-was will bring any one around you to check and see if you’re reading any of the Harry

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Ok. So I broke the rules by lying twice.It happened almost like in the movies (even those in the movies say so too) and before I could say Barrack Obama, I had done the post.#1- I never had a twin so its quite obvious now that no twin died at birth.Y'see, I really wanted a twin so much when I was younger and even though my younger bro and I have successfully done some

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After hoping and wishing it would never get to me, I was finally tagged in this 2 truths and 1 lie stuph.I thought and thought and came up with this:1. My twin died at birth.2. I have never shed a tear for a dead person, no matter how close.3. I was not born in Nigeria.Oya! Tell me which one is the lie.I promise a blank check to the first person to get it right (Ole!)Squeal! You're on the hot

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If this piece had been written by Onyeka Nwelue, there is no doubt in this precious mind of mine, uhuh, that it would have been captioned: “How to Make It This Year in Nigeria”. Absolutely no doubt about that! Aloofaa the blogger tells us to code name any vacation (and any other project, I should rightly add) which explains this title and not Nwelue’s.Poverty stares us in the face unblinking. It

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I was part of history(as an electoral officer) and the proudest Deltan alive when on the 17th January 2009, two females were elected as president and deputy of the students union government of Delta State University, Abraka for the first time in the history of the institution and considering that the last president was suspended for eight semesters for misconduct and alleged assault of a lady,one

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Apy-nu-ye!This month, I clock one year on Blogville and its like being a toddler all over again...There's really nothing to post now because I am so busy writing reports all over the place and working on my first novel. I decided to change my post name, sha and take up another. After all, as Bible talk, old things are passed away and they have become new. So, I decided to take Sirius Black, my

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Waking up angry on Xmas morning is one wish that crosses no one’s mind. It never crossed mine, either. But I still woke up feeling like the world was on top of me. Why, you hurry to ask? Scroll downwards, ok? It all began with Xmas Eve night when I ate dinner and settled to write a story on my laptop but the poor thing was giving me problems and believe me, I was already considering formatting

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If on a Monday evening, about a week at say, 8:30pm, you allow your nine-year old to fetch water, no matter how close the tap is to your house, I daresay you are doing an audition. If five minutes later, the child is declared missing, then lucky you, your part in the drama has begun.I as-a-matter-of-factly always like to travel home from school late so I get home around 8 or 9pm and so my mum

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Well, when saw the posters for the Street dance carnival to be organized by Lion FM here in school, I did not as you would expect, say 'wao!' Instead, I half-expected the stuph to be messed up and hey, this is vacation time and everyone's wishing for a groovy feeling. The crux of the matter sha, is that I got to the venue -Freedom Square- around 7:30 for the 5pm event. Even at that time, the

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You really might not believe this but it did happen. A young lad in good old China survived an arrow accident in which an arrow went through one of his eyes completely...Ok. u no wan believe, abi? Well, read, jare!

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On the 13th December, 2008, Farafina Magazine will be hosting a literary event at Bambuddha Restaurant, Victoria Island, Lagos.SPECIAL GUESTS: Molara Wood, Nnedi Okoroafor, Eghosa Imasuen, Timi Dakolo (of West Africa Idols fame) and others.DATE: 13th December, 2008.VENUE: Bambuddha , Victoria Island, Lagos.ADMISSION IS FREE.Ever heard the names of the special guests? Then be there! You know you'd

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Well, I just want to do this one-line post to apologize for not replying to comments and not posting anything yet at all in this month because assignments and seminars and editorial board meetings and Facebooking and fluctuating internet services here in school have tampered with my blogging time.

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Consider this! You walk into a class -your class- and you see staring at you, yes at you, thirty-one monsters. My pal, wetin you go do? Well, you may decide to do what I did: pretend its a dream and begin to pray and kabash and stall for time. What if these monsters stop staring (thank God) but then do the worst you've been fearing and come closer? Closer. And closer still until they've

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“I wasn’t there when I died.”It is on such a chilling yet interesting note that James Herbert’s 48-chapter-ed 503-page-d book, Nobody True begins. It is the story of an advertising practitioner who grows up rejected by his father and brought up by a secluded mother, gets married to a cheating wife and finally gets killed by a greedy and lying partner. Even after his death, he discovers his

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On Saturday the 8th of November, 2008, the dynamic and vision-seeing Jumoke Verissimo whose poetry I have become an addict of these days, will be doing a reading from her collection of poetry, titled 'I Am Memory'. Jumoke's book is being published by DADA Books, a sub of Dream Arts and Design Agency, Lagos.Venue: DADA Books Stand @ Lagos Book and Arts Festival 2008, Main Exhibition Hall, Entrance

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Indian novelist Aravind Adiga, whose first novel, "The White Tiger" won the Booker Prize recently has "sacked" his agent.

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Social networking was one salient area of the World Wide Web I avoided so much and if anyone saw a vision (like poet Jumoke Verissimo tends to do these days) about my being a member of any of them, I would have sworn and hissed and sulked and ......well let's stop there. But today, the tide has changed and I am a Facebook addict.I attended Writers' Anonymous in Lagos aided of course by Facebook

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Guys, I guess I just have to blare it loud and bare meself. I have caught the disease. the very one. Since e no dey show for face, I thought I would brave it but then water don pass gari. I need a cure and I want some blogger out there to suggest or prescribe one for me. So drop loads and loads of comments please if you don't want the worst to happenWaitin....P.S. Just so that you get the right

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Since I am in the middle of a vacation course, time has not been a friend and i have not been faithful to my blog.Now, sometime last week before the Independence Day celebrations, one of the lecturers involved in the vacation course told us about the infamous Oktoberfest (a beer drinking festival held every year on October 1st in Germany) and how he would have loved to get back to Germany to

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THIS LIFE Humans hollering hasty hellos At all. And annulling again. My mangy moonsongs made mincemeat By bobbies bribed. Various vituperative vendetta Of ocular obstructions Vain vessels victorious Suffering saints Girls going gay Widows wondering why.

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My Desire As the deer pants for water So does my soul for you. Like lions for meat and knife for blood, Like a student for free stuff and a lover for his beloved So do I desire for you: My certificate.

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“Witty, entertaining, riveting and second to none in narration.” With these words, I sum up V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street. After reading this book for the first time, I wished –quite stupidly though- I was his fellow Trinidadian or he, my fellow Nigerian. The book is a chapter-by-chapter narration of the queer, unique yet strangely familiar niche of each of the

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IntroductionI will begin this piece with a personal experience. Early in March 2007, precisely in the same week of my matriculation here in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, I had gone to the market in the town to get some essentials. Well to cut an otherwise long story short, I bought all I needed save the last one. I cannot now remember if it was a pair of sneakers or something else but it was

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It takes but strength and determination for one not to drop out of school these days, especially if it is engineering you are studying and so I do not blame Tuface and his ilk who dropped out to pursue their life ambitions.Exams and lab reports and term papers and programming projects have all conspired to consume my time and so my blog has been stale for two months running. It is shameful but

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Running the relays,Stunting in a sea of sweet smells,Exercising its fleshy structureAnd softening its texture:The meat’s gymIs my pot of soup.Morning, noon and nightfall,The gym opens at these shifts.Up and down and left and right,‘Tis doing its dying rites.

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To an idiotic tribe that I am one of.A breed of warped sense,Peculiarities and a sixth sense.Together with the weird and not-usual in one kittyA pack of crazy sagesAnd gentlemanly heretics.Men of muse and tranquil vibe,Who call a spade by its rightful name.We are the house of Chloe,With words as revealing as Cossy’s cleavageEccentrics and isolationistsWith a tugging depressionAnd an unhappy

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I will die daily,I will become blind,I will move mountainsAnd call CupidIfI do not sing somethingTo you my lady love.For I seek satisfactionIn your adorable arms.

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The wind cooing sweet-nothingsWhisperingAndThe trees sashayingFlattered,Falling in love.

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Dotun edged his way out of the crowd as soon as he glimpsed an usher with an offering bag coming towards the direction he stood. His body made contact with the sweaty bodies of people dancing with frenzy as he did so.“These thieves have come again,” he said to no one in particular, “only this time they will not succeed.” He soon found his way out of the township stadium, venue of an

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Running the relays,Stunting in a sea of sweet smells,Exercising its fleshy structureAnd softening its texture:The meat’s gymIs my pot of soup.Morning, noon and nightfall,The gym opens at these shifts.Up and down and left and right,‘Tis doing its dying rites.

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On the day of my funeral,Will my kith and kinGive me the tributes I thirst to hearOr emit unfit oratoryA calabash of complaints.Will the crowd yellOf my bequeathed everlasting legacies?will touching memories of me outdothe Titanic’s magnitude?Which will supersede the other?The outpouringOr the jeering?I plead earnestly with my spiritto of good cheer beOn that day and smile onlyIf the latter

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Here is the edited form of that poem. It needs your comments.I Will Die This Moment...I will die this momentThis moment of cumulative despair and anguishthe anguish of your tormentthe torment that adds to my failuremy failure in love’s mazes.You will notice not my descent into quasi-quietness.Soon, you will stare speechlessAt me, lifeless.And as you sing the Nunc DimittisAt my requiem mass,you

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I wrote this verse the other day and sent it to a critic who had been commenting anonymously on my blog and below is the poem and the review which he mailed to me. I am posting the amended version next.I Will Die This Moment... I will die this momentThis moment of cumulative despair and anguishthe anguish of your tormentthe torment that adds to my failuremy failure in love’s misty mazes.You will

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I have never understood the Nigerian problem. Until the deadline for something draws near, it is never tackled with the vigour it deserves. That fire-brigade approach is always adopted.There was a call for short stories by my group, Pen Alliance and the deadline was 20th May this year. We got only ten entries before the 18th and almost double that between that day and 20th.Why you ask?Je ne sais

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Here at last is The Soweto Contract below.Happy reading. Do drop a comment!The Soweto ContractEveryone had wished for the marriage to come sooner because no one could safely predict what would happen if, Nkosa did not get married before twenty-seven. Nkosa was already twenty-three. A bad sign it was. Rumours would begin to fly around Soweto, spread by fellow Zulus that there was a spell in the

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day...?Every lover of poetry knows that this line is the beginning of one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, which unfortunately, I do not know the title.This may seem like a command, but it is not.It is an appeal. Hear me:"If there is anyone who can mail me the Shakespearean sonnet that begins with the above line, let him do it as soon as possible. "I am in

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Everyone is wondering why I have not posted anything relating to the TFA @ 50 celebrations. Well, I am going to do a kinda photospeak and then a little article on that.Also, when I get back to school, I will upload one of my short stories in ascent from first to last chapter and then like Osondu Awaraka (on www.osonduawaraka.blogspot.com), I will upload a love poem.Can't do all these now because

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Things do happen.The Yahoo-yahoo - I assume we all know this means internet fraud - boom in the city of Sapele where I live is killing. The wave of scam activities has like steam in a pot of boiling water, captured the entire city and the atmosphere speaks, breathes and smells ill-gotten opulence.I am in the cafe now and there is this young man engaged in a conversation with a white lady."Swami,

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I honestly do not think I can wait till tomorrow before blogging and even though I may or may not blog tomorrow, I just have to blog today. I am back at home for a coupla days to pick up some things that I forgot during my last trip home and steal a little time with my folks albeit second semester has begun in shool and all sorts of courses from fluid mechanics to computer programming and

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Thank God, my exams are over. Had my last paper on Tuesday and then with the present curfew in school and coupled with the fact that I was ill made that Tuesday a memorable one for me.First, the order of events ensured that I did not blog that Tuesday and that immediately I came back to my room, I slept for the next five hours. Unlike me!Well, immediately second semester resumes, I will subscribe

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Watzup, everyone.Sneaked in to the cafe today to see if I can drop something before Tuesday.Thank God, its May Day.Happy Workers' Day, everyone.Till Tuesday!Scamper!

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It is no longer news that the celebration of 50 years of Things Fall Apart made a stop at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka for an international colloquium. What is news however, is the surprising, or not-so-surprising fact that everyone wanted to get on the notice boards during this period by associating with either Achebe or any other famous writer in order to get some share of the fame. Agreed

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Too many things happen these days that one begins to wonder if Earth is still the same planet it was in the preceeeding centuries.I personally have seen so many things that have made my eyes almost plop off and fall in amazement to the ground, but thank God they did not.The other day, I was in a queue that was more of a curl than a line in a bank that I dislike more than faeces: the United Bank

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Below is a poem I wrote and submitted to an email address advertised by ANA for the ANA Review journal to be published in honour of Chinua Achebe. I don't know if they used it. Well, here it is.A Feast of a Thousand LordsA feast of a thousand lords And many more wards For a sagely compatriot, Wordlord and chief of our tribe. For one who has loomed larger than his frame of flesh. The screen by

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#305 Marguerite Cartwright Avenue, University of Nigeria, Nsukka campus to many of the staff and students of the University of Nigeria and others all around planet Earth may just be another house in the staff residential quarters of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka campus and to you probably. The house in question is quite historic. Why you ask? It has at one time or the other housed two

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Nigeria, my dear country has not been the paradise many of us would have wished it to be, a modern-day Canaan “flowing with milk and honey” having none of the hail of problems and wahalas presently plaguing its life (or is it half-life?), that is, virtually an Eldorado, an ideal state without stain or blemish. Thus, Nigeria continues to lose its finest to the firm grips of the West and other

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I joined Wadja today and a couple of months back joined hi5 after first joining a long time ago and eventually abandoning it when the thrill everyone seemed to have about the whole thing had not gotten to me yet. I just joined because for a real long period now, I have not made any new friends. Strange it is and even stranger because after a couple of months I might also lose interest in this

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Forgive me readers. I have not blogged for a very long time , no thanks to my busy schedule as an undergraduate and then as if the Devil and his cohorts had conspired to make it worse, I AM WRITING MY EXAMS. Well, as we say in pidgin parlance, "nothing spoil". I have decided to unfailingly blog every Tuesday.So help me God!!!

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Hi everyone,The sun has to its home gone and the moon is reigning supreme in the sky at the moment.Today, I am writing about names. Since the first day my brown soles (now discarded) stepped on the red dust of Nsukka, my name has been one subject of interesting debate, ridicule and all. A girlfriend made me laugh till my sides shook and my ribs were screaming and pleading for no more the day we

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Once again my overburdened mind and muse is getting another chance to be hyper-productive which is the norm when there is a break in academic activities. Though this one is pretty short, it will have a myriad of pleasant effects on my drained soul. Don't u think so.Bye for now!Scamper!Mayor Whyte,The Barbecue Republiik

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I think its time to steer off today from prose and divert into the crooked paths that poetry offers. My poetry usually is quite longer than an average one and quite humorous and unusual (do pardon the symptoms of pride) but am serving you a plate of a a shorter poem and it was one written in the days called "then".Here is the poem below:“FENCED IN” Between these twin boulders - Discouragement and

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"Finally, we are naming our writing group, Lion Writers' Group."As a member of the supposedly above-named group, I think I frankly know not when, how and why that group name was chosen. In my probably biased opinion because he didn't consult the rest of us(none that I know of, sha!), that name is hereby declared null, unconstitutional and void under sub-section 2899(imagine!) of the 1999

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Today, as I walked the little distance from my Alvan Ikoku Hall of residence to the School of General Studies building for a class,my ever roving eye caught two well-dressed reverend sisters chatting with three fellow females, whom I supposed were classmates of the holy ones.I noticed that they were both very pretty.A third "sister" was in the middle of a telephone conversation using a very

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After years(did I say years, I meant months) of persuasion, intimidation and whatever in the dictionary that belongs to the family of words used to describe influencing someone, I finally succumbed to desires of friends and well-wishers and here is my blog.I am a student with a fairly hectic schedule but I promise to keep this blog alive regularly.

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