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Revisiting Hargeisa (6)

Posted on06/09/2014AuthorNwokolo ChumaLeave a comment

a subversive cartoon is no way to repay a generous host… Stick with a formal photograph, don’t put thoughts into Mr. President’s head… don’t stop now… read on!

CategoriesEssay, humour, Memoir, Performance/Events, Politics, Public Commentary, Review, society, travelogue, UncategorizedTagsAhmed Mahamoud Silanyo, hargeisa international book fair, HIBF, Michela Wrong, Nadifa Mohamed

Revisiting Hargeisa (4)

Posted on05/09/2014AuthorNwokolo ChumaLeave a comment

The Road Not Taken: fluent nations invigorated by an acquisition of an international language without the loss of their indigenous. don’t stop now… read on!

CategoriesEducation, Endangered Ethnicities, Essay, humour, Literature, Memoir, Review, society, travelogueTagschuma nwokolo, hargeisa international book fair, Jon Lee Anderson, Somali language literature

Revisiting Hargeisa (3)

Posted on03/09/2014AuthorNwokolo ChumaLeave a comment

‘God created woman from a crooked rib and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it’ . don’t stop now… read on!

CategoriesEssay, humour, Memoir, Performance/Events, Review, society, travelogueTagsAyan Mahamoud, chuma nwokolo, Chumagination, Edna Adan, Hargeisa International Book Fair 2014, John Rule, Nuruddin Farah

Revisiting Hargeisa (2)

Posted on02/09/2014AuthorNwokolo ChumaLeave a comment

Mohammed would probably have saved himself some camels if Nigerian technology had been incorporated into the Somali bridal process… don’t stop now… read on!

Categoriesdiary, Essay, humour, Memoir, Performance/Events, Public Commentary, Review, societyTagsbride price, brideprice app, hargeisa international book fair, Mohammed Elmi, Zahra Ahmed

Revisiting Hargeisa (1)

Posted on02/09/2014AuthorNwokolo ChumaLeave a comment

  And so it was that in August I paid my second visit to Hargeisa, Somaliland, in time to attend the 7th Hargeisa International Book Fair. The theme was ‘Imagination’, don’t stop now… read on!

Categoriesdiary, Essay, humour, Memoir, Review, society, travelogueTagschuma nwokolo, hargeisa, hargeisa international book fair, Michela Wrong, Somaliland

Reading @ Terra Kulture

Justice v. Amnesty; [Day 1 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']

Posted on30/05/2014AuthorNwokolo ChumaLeave a comment

Amnesty is a soup that is odious, without the salt of Justice don’t stop now… read on!

CategoriesLiterature, Performance/Events, Poetry, Politics, Public Commentary, Review, society, UncategorizedTagsBurying the Hatchet, chuma nwokolo, Terra Kulture, The Final Testament of a Minor God

Population? Zero. [Day 3 Countdown to the Final testament of a minor god]

Posted on28/05/2014AuthorNwokolo ChumaLeave a comment

Poem of the Day: Extinction Theme: Mortality When I was through laying out my new collection of poems, The Final Testament of a Minor God, I had cause to look don’t stop now… read on!

CategoriesEducation, inspirational, Literature, Performance/Events, Poetry, Review, UncategorizedTagschuma nwokolo, Extinction, The Final Testament of a Minor God

Reading @ Terra Kulture

The Iroko Mafia [Day 4 Countdown to the Final testament of a minor god]

Posted on27/05/2014AuthorNwokolo Chuma3 Comments

I do not know what he was thinking,
but he planted me in a flower pot don’t stop now… read on!

CategoriesEnvironment, Literature, Performance/Events, Poetry, Public Commentary, ReviewTagsAn Iroko Called Samson, chuma nwokolo, The Final Testament of a Minor God

Reading @ Terra Kulture

Anniversary of the Firstborn; [Day 5 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']

Posted on26/05/2014AuthorNwokolo Chuma

the Igbo word for love, ‘ifunanya’ = the English ‘I see you tenderly with my eyes’.
don’t stop now… read on!

CategoriesLiterature, Performance/Events, Poetry, Review, UncategorizedTagsAnniversary of the Firstborn, chuma nwokolo, The Final Testament of a Minor God

Prayer before Flight; [Day 6 Countdown to 'The Final Testament of a Minor God']

Posted on25/05/2014AuthorNwokolo Chuma6 Comments

bless me with a pilot that has learnt how to take-off
and land, don’t stop now… read on!

CategoriesLiterature, Performance/Events, Poetry, Politics, Review, society, UncategorizedTagschuma nwokolo, Prayer before Flight, The Final Testament of a Minor God

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