2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • 2007

2021 (5)

• The Dambazau in All of Us
• Ini Umoren & the Wonderful, Terrible, Road
• The Empty Page [videopoem]
• Engineering Ants
• cry waterside

2020 (20)

• Day 14, No-Cow-Zones (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 13, ‘Stelling’ in the Name of the Lord (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 12, The Colour of God (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 11, Burning Down Justice (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 10, The Constant Value of Life (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 9, The Bicycle Repairer (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 8, The Loyalty of Cows (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 7, The Architecture of Loss (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 6, The Oga’s Prayers (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 5: The Lagos. (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 4: Faces on the Open Road. (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 3, Prisoners of Freedom. (31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 2. The Obiaruku Doctrine (#31DaysOfDecember)
• Day 1, Anthill On Oil (#31DaysOfDecember)
• The Husband Interviews
• Guns & Irony (Human Security in the Age of Insecurity)
• 50 Dadiyata Questions
• The Hooker Intellectual
• A Fourth Dimension of Plagiarist
• Chasing the Tail of the African Revolution

2019 (12)

• A Supra Human Love
• ‘DSS’, Court Invasions & The Revolution Next Time
• If I am Plagiarist
• The Jonestown in Everytown
• The Bleeding of the Niger; Justice, Bribecode, and the War Next Time
• Ending the Government of Leaders by Leaders & for Leaders
• Bola Tinubu & the Bribecode
• A Garland for Bob (Gukurahundi) Mugabe
• We Need to Talk about You, South Africa
• Afam Akeh
• An Epitaph for Pius Adesanmi
• My Friend, Francis

2018 (4)

• The Remains of the Clan
• Superstate Africa: Kenya, Somaliland, and the Ghost of Biafra Past.
• A Portrait of the National Hero as Serial Killer
• Journey of the River, Niger

2017 (13)

• The Firdausis do Bloody Benjy
• Quality Education; Removing the ‘Crazy’ in Democracy
• 50 Queries for the Nigerian Godfather
• Flying Pigs and the Restructuring of Nigeria
• A Minute of Silence for a Dead Tongue
• Andrew Yakubu and the Real Cornbeef
• Television Strike
• A Short History of a Brief Rebellion in the Alphabet
• A Cashew Dies
• Dear Uwachommadu,
• Is Your Country a Glorified Colony? (A Ten-Point Test)
• Qualification Quiz for the Zombie Society
• “I will make you Slavers of Men”

2016 (12)

• Thank you for your business
• An Open Letter to the President on the Death of Citizen Augustine
• Achebe was wrong:
• blog
• Dear Storyteller, We Need New Folktales
• polytheistic nostalgia
• The Second-Best Reason for Our Lives
• 40 Years After; Chinua Achebe in the Global Imagination.
• An Open Letter to the President on the Death of Citizen Augustine
• An Obituary for Footwear
• Why Bola Flung her Daughter’s Novel through the Window

2015 (43)

• Strictly No Standing (Pixels & Poetry)
• Okada for Donkeys (Pixels & Poetry)
• The Cattle 'Express' (Pixels & Poetry)
• Death as a Four-Poster Bed
• The Man of God and the Mango Tree
• Do we think to end history with our victory song?
• How does a Writer Retire
• Greatness is first of all, Personal
• Advice of Achebean Eagle, in Mentor Mode, to Eaglet
• Saudi Arabia’s Pornographic Diplomacy
• How to Write Poetry
• Death and the King's Bank Account
• Revisiting Hargeisa (8)
• Taxation vs. Corruption; Nigeria's Heavyweight Battle
• Bribecode Conversation, Abuja, 18th July
• Does Man own Country, or does Country own Man?
• How does a Writer Retire
• Chumagination… The Endgame
• Ali & the Promise of May
• "Dinner's on Me" – R. Niger
• Road Robberies and the Road Trip
• The 11 Missing Wages of a Kogi Man
• One More State, Anyone?
• Is There a Connection between Corruption and Xenophobia?
• Welcome to Buharia
• Like a Tree Grips her Planted Earth
• New Bangui
• Insert Smiley Here
• The Late Buka’s Last Customer
• A Writer Acquires Inspiration…
• cityscape six
• Abubakar Gimba, 1952-2015
• How #96 came before #55 in the Chuma Universe
• He did not Suffer Depression
• If Words Were Food, Would You Eat Yours?
• 'Stomach Infrastructural' Politics
• How to Spell Naija, Volume 2. the Journey so Far
• Ancestral Voices (2)
• Ancestral Voices
• Memento Mori
• Goodnight
• On Friendship
• How to Receive News of Yet another Civil Bomb

2014 (47)

• Upon finishing 'The End of the Beginning'
• 1966
• from The Corpse's Complaint
• Picturespeak
• Ifyoulikedie Bassey
• The Saga of the Ninja Gecko
• Picturespeak
• The Lonely Box
• PIcture Speak
• The Nairobi Dispatches (3 – The Shidas Strike)
• The Nairobi Dispatches (2) (The Love Stories of Ladan Osman)
• The Nairobi Dispatches (1)
• Poetry, a Definition
• Cowboy Flicks and the Myth of Badman’s Goodwoman
• Revisiting Hargeisa (7)
• Revisiting Hargeisa (6)
• Revisiting Hargeisa (5)
• Revisiting Hargeisa (4)
• Revisiting Hargeisa (3)
• Revisiting Hargeisa (2)
• Revisiting Hargeisa (1)
• Chief Victor Umeh & the Order of the Machete
• To a Parent, Bereaved
• Upon Looking into my 6-Year-Old Eyes
• If you missed London, there's still Oxford…
• Great Dark Stories of the World
• Justice v. Amnesty; [Day 1 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']
• The River Writes You a Memo; [Day 2 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']
• Population? Zero. [Day 3 Countdown to the Final testament of a minor god]
• The Iroko Mafia [Day 4 Countdown to the Final testament of a minor god]
• Anniversary of the Firstborn; [Day 5 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']
• Prayer before Flight; [Day 6 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']
• The Courting of Adieleuwa
• The final testament of a minor god
• Loving and Dining in the Coal City
• For Denizens of Hot Makurdi
• The Institute of African Political Education (I.APE) C.E. Series: Dividing the People
• Ode to the Shooting Star
• A Small Footnote on Nigeria's Centenary Awards
• Midnight's Revelation
• For the Mamudu 42, the Buni Yadi 43…
• We are no Longer at Ease
• Lagos-Accra… A Tale of Two Cities
• Meeting a Pacesetter
• A Traveller's Notebook; Lost in Kampala
• The Folly of the Laka Nation
• The Old Ways

2013 (38)

• The Presidential Correspondence Series…(1)
• The Ake Litfest; A Comic Retrospective
• How to Spell Naija (in 100 Short Stories)
• A Day in the Life (8 of 365 – Extending the English with Jisike)
• A (Heavy-Handed) Parable on Corruption
• A Traveller's Notebook; That Fortnight in Hargeysa
• A Traveller’s Notebook: Layover in Addis Abeba
• Kofi Awoonor
• A Day in the Life (319 of 365) Writing at Funerals; An Apologia
• In Memory of my Dead Typewriter (Circa 1978-1983)
• The Arithmetic of Life and Death
• Afi & Killjoy
• The Children of Laas Geel
• A Sartorial Hargeisa
• Afam Akeh & the Poetics of Nostalgia
• The King Has Never Done It
• An Oga at the Top says his Morning Prayers
• The British Pub; (a brief guide for the thirsty tourist)
• Nyama Choma & the Urban Smile
• Daystarter
• A Short Memo to An Endangered Bee
• The Orjian Definition of Nigerian Democracy
• Winner Takes All
• Democratizing Autocracy; A Very English Example
• A Moratorium on Holy Enterprise
• The Hungry Road
• The New Asymptote
• The Mongrelisation of Nigerian English
• Gari on Trial
• The OPB Specialist
• Chinua Achebe [ 16 November 1930 – 22 March 2013]
• The Seductive Yellowness of Yams
• How to Write Real Stories.
• Let Me Tell You About the Sweet Fish, Assia.
• Saturday Reading @ Goethe, Lagos
• Lessons They Didn't Teach Me in Tourism School
• Condoling the Twins
• Cat v. Tale

2012 (43)

• A Day in the Life (12 of 365 – Phone Etiquette)
• Day in the Life (10 of 365 – The Fear of Growing Things 2)
• Day in the Life (9 of 365 – The Fear of Growing Things 1)
• A Day in the Life (7 of 365 – The Memory of Parents Past)
• A Day in the Life (6 of 365 — Brothers and Books)
• A Day in the Life (5 of 365 – Chukwu ma)
• A Day in the Life (4 of 365 – Emotional Geography)
• A Day in the Life (3 of 365 – Bye-bye Bikers)
• A Day in the Life (2 of 365 – The Metaphor of the Flying Bonnet)
• A Day in the Life (1 of 365)
• Book party for The Ghost @ Quintessence, Lagos.
• Quarterback & Co
• Woman minus Man
• The Fine Art of Eating Fishhead Peppersoup
• Privatising the Anti-Corruption Drive
• A Portrait of The Funeral as Feast
• The Pregnant & The Dead
• Remembering Remilekun
• Of Snakes & Slippers
• Readers, Writers, Lend Me 5 Minutes
• The Pilgrim's Address
• The Tranquil Life of Sukosu and Wife
• The Mourning After
• The Funerals this Time
• A God Resigns
• Phonesurfing
• Chicken Soup for Starving Chicks
• Rendezvous at Abuja
• The Beckoning Hills of Ibadan…
• Friendly Friends and the Facebook Sick
• My Name is Chuma, What's Yours?
• Upon Writing into my Father's Notebook
• Reading @ Debonair's; 31st March 2012.
• The Jesus Lie
• Spared Child
• The End of Failure
• Last Flight to Biafra (2)
• Last Flight to Biafra (1)
• How to Haunt a 'Dozen' Cities with the Ghost of Sani Abacha
• Return to Brunei: The London Launch of The Ghost of Sani Abacha.
• This Land is Mine
• The Ghost of Sani Abacha haunts Nigeria's General Strike
• Dear President Jonathan

2011 (49)

• Maryam, on Magnus
• Letter to a Young Wife, from an Old
• The Ramselling Truthangel of Zambaputu
• Infusion 20 & The Mystery of the Good Reading
• Reading in Abuja
• Sacrificing the Next Generation; Lessons from Abraham
• The Tragic Life and Death of a Short Story
• What's for Lunch?
• Ancestral Stone
• The Secret Diary of the Witchdoctor's Writer-in-Residence (7)
• On hearing Screams from Abuja
• A Formal Notice of Burials to Come
• An Email Affair (15 of 15)
• An Email Affair (14 of 15)
• An Email Affair (13 of 15)
• An Email Affair (12 of 15)
• An Email Affair (11 of 15)
• An Email Affair (10 of 15)
• An Email Affair (9 of 15)
• An Email Affair (8 of 15)
• An Email Affair (7 of 15)
• An Email Affair (6 of 15)
• An Email Affair (5 of 15)
• An Email Affair (4 of 15)
• An Email Affair (3 of 15)
• An Email Affair (2 of 15)
• An Email Affair (1 of 15)
• A Library in Asaba
• Seer & Sons
• Diary Girl
• Urban Architecture
• The Fundamental Human Right to Wee-Free
• Natural Mystic Terrorist
• The Seven Deadly Sins (1)
• The Secret Diary of the Witchdoctor's Writer in Residence (6)
• The Obama Patriotic Theory on the Acceptable Slaughter of Humans
• Swaziland's (Politico-Economic) Revolution
• Revolutionary Notes: Moral Clarity
• The Secret Diary of the Witchdoctor's Writer-in-Residence (5)
• How to get a Ph.D from the London School of Economics
• This Revolution will not be Franchised
• The Secret Diary of the Witchdoctor's Writer-in-Residence (4)
• The Secret Diary of the Witchdoctor's Writer-in-Residence (3)
• The Secret Diary of the Witchdoctor's Writer-in-Residence (2)
• The Secret Diary of the Witchdoctor's Writer-in-Residence (1)
• Launching African Writing, print
• Why Yesterday?
• Ben Ali's Bloodied Nose
• Okey Ndibe & The Ghost of Sani Abacha

2010 (50)

• Not so, Adaobi…
• The Mo Ibrahim Prize vs. The Spoilt Brat Prize for African Leadership
• Dear Laurent Gbagbo
• MaCharlie at Yahoo (Part 5 of 5)
• MaCharlie at Yahoo (Part 4 of 5)
• MaCharlie at Yahoo (Part 3 of 5)
• Ma Charlie at Yahoo (Part 2 of 5)
• MaCharlie at Yahoo (Part 1 of 5)
• The Ransom Letters (Part 6 of 6)
• The Ransom Letters (Part 5 of 6)
• The Ransom Letters (Part 4 of 6)
• The Ransom Letters (Part 3 of 6)
• The Vennyans are Coming
• The Ransom Letters (Part 2 of 6)
• The Ransom Letters (Part 1 of 6)
• The Falling Value of Human Life
• 'Slovo' is Slovak for 'Word'
• Buck-Passing in the Gulf of Mexico
• Happy Birthday, DoaDA
• Funding the Ministry of Attack
• Something strange happened to my Teacup yesterday.
• How to Recognise a Third World Country… attn: Office of the Pope
• Condolences, condolences.
• Banning Glasses from British Pubs
• Sentencing for Six (or a portrait of the persona as a… woman)
• Why South Africa is not really a Country
• The Art of War vs. The War of Art
• A September Eleven Poem
• Upon finally learning 'How to Euthanise a Cactus'
• The Colonist Fights Back…(Cambridge finally trumps Harvard)
• Jamming with Books in Lagos
• Labour on the Ropes
• The New Corruption Tax
• A Magic Bullet for Corporate Corruption
• Tugging at the Ancestral Cord.
• Joining the British National Party
• Why President Goodluck should have Rejected his Appointment
• Balancing the Narrative
• The Ten Commandments of Nigerian Politics
• Ngugi v. Young African Writers
• The Rumble in London (II)
• The Rumble in London (I)
• America's Finest Moment (No. …?)
• So Why are we having a Nigerian Winter in London?
• Why we are no Longer at Ease
• Prayer before Flight
• An Ugly Day in Cabinda
• The Greatest Shame of the 21st Century is…
• The Mutallab Factor
• Blair's War against his Conscience

2009 (23)

• Making (& unmaking) a State in the Name of Art
• Hitting Trees with Sticks
• Obama and The Surge
• Yar'Adua's Broken Heart.
• The Sexiness of War
• Sudan on YouTube
• Phèdre, Sanford and Love Stories from Athens to Argentina
• Moazzam Begg and the Case of the Suicide Bombing Donkey.
• Jersey's Film Festival '09
• Ethnic Engineering & Human Cloning
• Money, Memory and Peru-Bolivian Gold
• Lessons I am Learning; No. 2. Titling Stuff
• Finding Thinkstone
• The Mirror Test of Identity Relations
• Mwai Kibaki and the case of the Phantom Wife
• Books for Hire in Lagos
• Lessons I am Learning; No. 1. Simmering Poems.
• Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the Stars
• Sub-Atlantic Accidents
• Companion Dreams
• The Human Stain
• The Audacity of Hope
• The Silver Express

2008 (13)

• George (Mungo Park) Bush
• A Toast to Chris Mlalazi, Raisedon Baya and Co.
• Writing the Dreamnovel
• Rogue Bankers and the case of the Stolen Beans
• Revisiting Capital Punishment for Corporate Felons
• Heart Warming News from Dublin.
• The Eyes have It
• Raging Bulls and Empty Pages
• Grandfather Clock
• On Kenya
• To Write or to Tell; a Story's Dilemma
• Cannabis at Customs; all in a Day's Handshake
• Smiling to the Bank

2007 (3)

• The Appalling Things Fall Apart
• Capital Punishment and the Multinational; the case for Corporate Executions
• Sudan! Sudan!