WARS, WARS EVERYWHERE AND NO PEACE It is said that if there is no war, there is no peace. But unfortunately, even if there was peace, it never lasts. It can take towards the end [...]
Jan 302012
Emmanuella Nduonofit
Jan 232012
Moon look… I looked upon the moon, struggling to see its tortured face through its brightness, a face that observes mother earth, hears all though earless, a messenger for the Leal – its land of [...]
Jan 132012
There was a time Jerry Agada flagged off his new project to promote reading and literary activities in Benue State tagged Reading tour and lecture circuit. This project was intended to promote reading in the [...]
Jan 112012
Minerva Press is a typical example of vanity publishing. A report says that it was Britain’s largest vanity publishing company, but now it has ceased trading. Its phones at its Leicester office have been cut [...]
Jan 102012
There comes a time in a person’s life when one wishes to express himself in writing. Most people at some point in their lives have this desire, this dream to write a book, whether a [...]
Jan 022012
The Theme of Social & Political Injustice in Zulu Sofola’s ‘King Emene’ & Esiaba Irobi’s ‘Nwokedi’ It has been said that injustice is a wrongful action, a situation where people are treated unfairly. This research [...]
Dec 122011
The legendary English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth defined poetry as “an outburst of powerful emotions recollected in tranquillity”. I wish to accept Wordsworth’s definition in this case. In an interview conducted by Obu Udeozo, a [...]
Nov 122011
CHARACTERS:- PETER, a legislator’s son CHARLIE, a senator’s son SAM, a civil servant’s son MONICA, a politician’s daughter ANGELA, a judge’s daughter ASSUMPTA, a farmer’s daughter (In a small but expensively furnished room, there is [...]
Nov 092011
CHARACTERS:- MRS. VOLTA SMADA NEERI DANGE DOCTOR POLICEMAN (The setting of this short play is the normal arrangement of a rich-looking parlour. MRS. VOLTA, a woman of middle age, is seen sitting on an expensive [...]
Oct 142011
Oracle Books and Orange Academy with the support of CORA, Committee For Relevant Arts, present EDIBLE BONES, a classic and exciting coming-of-age story by the multiple award winning writer, Unoma Azuah. Time: Saturday, December 17 [...]
Sep 282011
With a mix of self-disgust and self-anger I write this. I am so ill-prepared. If I write about me, would it change anything? Would it fulfil the dream I ‘built’ to dream? In an unsure [...]
Jul 312011
Scene Four (Back at the dining room in Frank’s house. Anong barges in with a small travelling bag. He drops it on the floor and sits down on one of the chairs dejectedly. Afterwards, Choba [...]
Jul 302011
Scene Three (A hotel room: a single bed, a table and armchair and a telephone on top, three beautiful portraits hung on the wall along with a decorative clock. Frank is seen speaking on the [...]
Jul 282011
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:- Mr. Frank Ozioko Mrs. Julia Ozioko Nkechi Aishatu Grace Hamza Anong Choba Maduka Mr. Ulu Sherry POLICEMAN PRIEST Scene One (An old couple’s bedroom; it has a wardrobe, a table and its chair, [...]
Jul 132011
Act Two (The same as before, only this time there is a chair situated at the very back of the stage. Ben is seen sitting on the bare floor, eating food in a forlorn and [...]
Jul 122011
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:- BEN MYLES BEGGAR THREE POLICEMEN WOMAN IN WRAPPER FEMALE PASSER-BY A DRIVER A PASTOR Act One (There is nothing on stage except a bus-stop signpost. MYLES, dressed in an expensive three-piece suit, saunters [...]
Jun 212011
Work resumed for me after those five days I asked for. My boss called me to his office as soon as I registered for work this morning. He was in a pensive mood when I [...]
Jun 182011
We’re here… Shht! We’re here, on tiptoe to completely extract that semen of conceit and deceit, that semen of no weight, that common water from them who solely depend on it, white-hearted in disguise – [...]
Jun 162011
In our obodo Nigeria, there are definitely great women. Presently, there is Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Federal Minister of Finance, who secured our debt relief from the Paris Club. I am sure we [...]
Jun 152011
Akachi Ezeigbo talks about the constraints and challenges of the woman writer (“Constraints and challenges of the woman glass ceiling crasher: The woman writer’s perspective”, Sunday Vanguard, November 21, continued November 28, 2004): “Men controlled [...]
Jun 142011
How does one begin to define a woman? Maybe because of the kind of power a woman has, a woman could be defined as “woe” to man. A woman is also termed to be a [...]
Jun 122011
CHARACTERS:- ALHAJI HALIMA SHEPHERD (A room in a hotel. The room is in total disarray: an unmade single bed, some items of clothing all about the place, a box of clothes kept open on the [...]
Jun 102011
The day of the wedding came. I was Christie’s maid of honour and Paul was Aaron’s best man. There was heavy hustling and bustling during that feast. Bunmi was the leader of the flower girls. [...]
May 192011
TWENTY-FIVE Nick heaved a sigh longer than a sigh. Yes! Those memories maimed him in fact. The injection slowly had effect on him. He slowly fluttered his eyes and sleep carried him. His head was [...]
May 172011
NOTE: Gosh, why won’t my fingers stop ‘itching’, hm? It’s sad sha, really. Well, formerly titled SHOULD I MARRY MY FATHER’S KILLER?, this story was first published in a local state-owned newspaper for fourteen weeks [...]
May 102011
Please note that this is officially my second novel I’ve written in my lifetime, and I had quite a young tender mind when I scribbled this particular book on paper. So, enjoy this slice I’m [...]
May 042011
Act Four, Scene One (The stage is now divided into two, signifying a restaurant, FALLON FAMILY RESTAURANT, and its kitchen. MR. & MRS. FALLON enter, exhausted. MR. FALLON goes to the bar.) MR. FALLON: I [...]
May 032011
‘E-Entrance’… He entered her, “Do you know this world?” “No!” “I’ll introduce you”, submerged into the parched sweetness. _*_*_*_
Apr 302011
CHARACTERS:- A YOUNG WOMAN A YOUNG MAN (In an empty department of a higher institution. A bench is placed beside a wall riddled with papers stuck to it. These papers contain a variety of departmental [...]
Apr 252011
Act Three, Scene One (Back in the room at the backyard of a cathedral. MRS. FALLON is packing up the flowers into a tromp-box when MR. FALLON enters.) MRS. FALLON: Did you talk with him? [...]
Apr 242011
Lying to my late father in order to extract more money than usual was a necessary act because I needed the money to sustain myself in school. Deliberately misdirecting a mad man from his victim [...]
Apr 212011
-Scene Two- (At a wide balcony of a storey building. AJOKE, dressed in a light black swimsuit, is preparing a small picnic. She has spread out the mat, opened the basket of food and is [...]