Categoriesblogs curiouser n curiouser Essay Public Commentary society By Nwokolo Chuma6 Comments on A Short History of a Brief Rebellion in the Alphabet A Short History of a Brief Rebellion in the Alphabet Posted on17/02/201723/03/2017 By Nwokolo Chuma it started as an uprising against capital letters. the very idea that a class of letters should be larger-than-life contradicted … Continue ReadingA Short History of a Brief Rebellion in the Alphabet
Categoriescuriouser n curiouser Flash humour Public Commentary society By Nwokolo ChumaLeave a comment on Ifyoulikedie Bassey Ifyoulikedie Bassey Posted on20/10/201416/08/2023 By Nwokolo Chuma What my friends call me for short? Die. … Continue Reading >Ifyoulikedie Bassey
Categoriescuriosities Environment Literature Poetry By Nwokolo Chuma1 Comment on For Denizens of Hot Makurdi For Denizens of Hot Makurdi Posted on24/03/2014 By Nwokolo Chuma poetic advice for wilting ones … Continue Reading >For Denizens of Hot Makurdi
Categoriescuriouser n curiouser Environment Essay inspirational Literature Performance/Events Review travelogue By Nwokolo Chuma1 Comment on A Traveller's Notebook; Lost in Kampala A Traveller's Notebook; Lost in Kampala Posted on07/01/2014 By Nwokolo Chuma ‘He could easily be my father.’ He told his wife, ‘I won’t want my father stranded without a passport in the middle of a journey…’ … Continue Reading >A Traveller's Notebook; Lost in Kampala
Categoriescuriouser n curiouser humour Literature Memoir Performance/Events Public Commentary travelogue By Nwokolo Chuma1 Comment on The Ake Litfest; A Comic Retrospective The Ake Litfest; A Comic Retrospective Posted on10/12/2013 By Nwokolo Chuma …no authorial egos were damaged in the production of these comics… … Continue Reading >The Ake Litfest; A Comic Retrospective
Categoriescuriosities curiouser n curiouser Essay humour Memoir By Nwokolo Chuma2 Comments on A Day in the Life (8 of 365 – Extending the English with Jisike) A Day in the Life (8 of 365 – Extending the English with Jisike) Posted on06/11/2013 By Nwokolo Chuma …Jisike… a cool word with which to sign off an email … Continue Reading >A Day in the Life (8 of 365 – Extending the English with Jisike)
Categoriescuriouser n curiouser Essay Flash Food humour inspirational Literature Politics Public Commentary By Nwokolo Chuma2 Comments on A (Heavy-Handed) Parable on Corruption A (Heavy-Handed) Parable on Corruption Posted on28/10/2013 By Nwokolo Chuma there was something not quite hibiscus about it. … Continue Reading >A (Heavy-Handed) Parable on Corruption
Categoriescuriouser n curiouser diary Essay Food humour inspirational Memoir travelogue Uncategorized By Nwokolo Chuma2 Comments on A Traveller's Notebook; That Fortnight in Hargeysa A Traveller's Notebook; That Fortnight in Hargeysa Posted on19/10/2013 By Nwokolo Chuma All this is getting boring, actually: nice Ethiopians, nice Somalis, nice Kenyans… My instincts tell me that the population of the Horn have to be more complicated than this. … Continue Reading >A Traveller's Notebook; That Fortnight in Hargeysa
Categoriescuriouser n curiouser diary fiction humour Literature Memoir travelogue Uncategorized By Nwokolo ChumaLeave a comment on A Day in the Life (319 of 365) Writing at Funerals; An Apologia A Day in the Life (319 of 365) Writing at Funerals; An Apologia Posted on15/09/2013 By Nwokolo Chuma Sometimes I wish I could switch off my brain in church, the way I switch off my mobile phone. … Continue Reading >A Day in the Life (319 of 365) Writing at Funerals; An Apologia
Categoriescuriouser n curiouser fiction Flash Literature By Nwokolo Chuma2 Comments on Daystarter Daystarter Posted on25/06/2013 By Nwokolo Chuma ‘somewhere, for some reason even he could not fathom, someone loved her, selflessly’ … Continue Reading >Daystarter
