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Ochuko Tonukari commented on the post, Empress of the River 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Yes, you are correct. I had wanted to do the correction before anyone reads it, but I had already sent it for publication before then. Well, how I wish it is possible to add some of this suggestions even after […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, Little grown-ups (1) 9 months ago

In those days when I was a youngster living in Warri, there were many things that happened. In fact, there is one I remember now. Back then there were so many young beautiful schoolgirls in our neighbourhood. […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, Little grown-ups (2) 9 months ago

It didn’t take long after Mr. Akume’s tragedy ended when Obaro came. Obaro was a girl of about fifteen years living with her parents in a small face-me-I –face-you apartment. She didn’t make the last JSS 3 exams […]

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the post, Chief Omokomoko Osokpa: the Pioneer of Urhobo contemporary Music 1 year ago

Yeah! It is really long and it has to be so. Thanks for your wonderful comment.

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the post, Chief Omokomoko Osokpa: the Pioneer of Urhobo contemporary Music 1 year ago

Yes i do, no doubt. Thanks a million for taking note of this.

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, Chief Omokomoko Osokpa: the Pioneer of Urhobo contemporary Music 1 year ago

By Ochuko Tonukari

I grew up at a time when significant aspects of Urhobo culture were at the brink of extinction. Even so, there was a burning desire in me to find […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, How to raise the kind of Men we would like to Marry 1 year ago

By Ochuko Tonukari

Not too long ago, an exciting debate came up in our local church. It was such that we heatedly discussed ways in which parents need to re-examine placing gender stereotypes on their […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, Giving the Guy who wants the job a chance 1 year, 1 month ago

By Ochuko Tonukari

One thing I discovered recently is that, there are many girls out there who are hooked up to guys who really do not care a hoot about them. They keep ‘killing’ themselves over a man who, as […]

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the post, Memories of My Heart 1 year, 4 months ago

hahahahahahahahhaha!!! I just dey jolly dey go. I have been a fool all along. I done wisen up!

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the post, Memories of My Heart 1 year, 4 months ago

Waoh!!! I read that too and I was greatly amazed. Many thanks for your wonderful comments. Kind regards!!!

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the post, Why I Disagree with Prof. Ojaide’s labeling of New Poets as Copycats (1) 1 year, 5 months ago

Well, if that was what Ojaide meant, he didn’t make it clear. Though, your point was very clear, but i doubt if that was what Ojaide imply. Every writer decides the setting of his work as he pleases, or as his […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, Why I Disagree with Prof. Ojaide’s labeling of New Poets as Copycats (1) 1 year, 5 months ago

By Ochuko Tonukari

One thing I realized lately is that the future of African writing is in the hands of writers who are not only ardent readers but those who are in touch with their African root. There is […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, The Journey’s End 1 year, 5 months ago

By Ochuko Tonukari

Your memory

Like a ghost

Haunts me endlessly

Tossing dewdrops

And coming down my cheeks

I long for your corporeal presence

I dreamt of the fire and sweetness of […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, Twosome World 1 year, 5 months ago

By Ochuko Tonukari

I lay back staring at my lip-stick stained designer card

Overcome with the sensational feeling of exhilarating memories

Between reading the foregoing lines

My body gave a slight […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, Tears on the Burning Field (2) 1 year, 5 months ago

The Impact of the Inferno

There has not been an incident of such magnitude in Nigeria since 1956 when oil was discovered in Oloibiri in the Central Delta. About half of the cassava farm was completely razed and […]

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the post, Tears on the Burning Field (2) 1 year, 5 months ago

Thanks for your comment. Perhaps, you should have read it from the beginning!

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, Tears on the Burning Field (1) 1 year, 5 months ago

By Ochuko Tonukari

“This is terrible, it is really terrible! I can’t believe these are human beings…” That was how Navy Commander Walter Feghabor, the then military administrator of Delta State gave vent […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, My Everyday heroes 1 year, 7 months ago

Recently, while at Warri, I watched a most exciting and soul-lifting movie titled ‘Pay It Forward’ which helped to shape my understanding, brought a watershed, turning point in my life and gave me a new […]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new post, The Pleasure of meeting Nelson Mandela through his Book 1 year, 7 months ago

By Ochuko Tonukari

One of the men I respect most in my short sojourn on planet earth just celebrated his 93rd birthday and I feel I should try to find out more about what was responsible for his greatness. […]

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post Little grown-ups (2) 1 year, 7 months ago

Hail Mary! Holy Mary! It wasn’t meant to disgust anybody. It was simply an attempt to recapture some of the pranks I got into as a child. It doesn’t make me the most spoilt or bungled human being as you think. It only shows that as a child, perhaps due to the environment I grew [...]

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post Little grown-ups (1) 1 year, 7 months ago

Thanks for your comment. Perhaps, it’s because i don’t have competent people to review and criticize some of my stories before sending them across. I write the way i think and i just send it across after then. Well, many thanks for your writerly comment Myne.

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post Threshold of the gods 1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks for your wonderful comment, Ife. This is really a surprise coincidence. I was just reading through your profile for the first time when i saw that you commented on my work about 1 minute ago!

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new blog post: Threshold of the gods 1 year, 8 months ago

For those who knew, in the small enclave that is Idaza lies untold mysteries only understood or experienced by those who loved adventure. For those who don’t, these mysteries were nothing other than mere stories told for entertainment by the moonlight. Most of these mysteries were left unsolved for ages, and some of them were [...]

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post There is God 1 1 year, 8 months ago

Sometimes, we should learn to look beyond our individual perfectionistic mentality and accept the fact that every writer must have a peculiar style of writing.
Nice work! I can’t wait to read the part two.

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post Memories of River Ethiope 1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks Raymond.

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post Memories of River Ethiope 1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks!!!

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post Memories of River Ethiope 1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks. This is a very wonderful one. I shall look into that aspect of the mammy water. But truly, that was exactly how i felt it then and i decided to put it down poetically. It was real to me just like my friend Ejiro said it was real to him. I don’t know why [...]

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post Memories of River Ethiope 1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks Kaycee, but was it not Achebe who said: “I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there’s no way you can tell that story in one way and say, ‘this is it.’ Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing … this is [...]

Ochuko Tonukari commented on the blog post Memories of River Ethiope 1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks for your very witty and writerly comment. You were right when you noted that i have a languorous writing style that is suited to memoirs, but that is not actually the way i write in other genre. The whole thing lies in trying to recollect many a childhood experiences you once had or shared [...]

Ochuko Tonukari wrote a new blog post: The Sapele Market of my childhood 1 year, 8 months ago

By Ochuko Tonukari When I was very young, way back in the 80s, one of the few places that filled me with a sense of wonder and curiosity was the Sapele market. I love it at all times of the day, in all its moods; crowded and gay in the afternoon, deserted and mysterious [...]

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