A Note on the Site
Sometime in May my website was hacked and, offline for more than a month’s worth of weeks, I lost quite a lot in access and
July 20, 2019
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The Coo of a Blue-Plumed Bird
Akachi Was a Remarkable Human Being: On Mental Health, How Not to React, and What Universities Can Do to Help
1. WITH AKACHI I have known Akachi for years, as a poet acquaintance from The Writers’ Community, UNN, but until this year, we hadn’t
May 15, 2019
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Easter Playlist
A boy’s ears should be busy during Easter. Check out my previous lists—for 2017, for 2018, and a playlist & thoughts. “Ratchet (Happy Birthday),” Drake
April 20, 2019
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The Feast of the Goat
I like the word “feast.” The sound of it, the upper teeth touching the lower lip. I like when it is used in titles
April 14, 2019
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Between Short Stories and a Novel, My Creative Shutdown and Transitioning
1. This is only half of the story. 2. My third idea for a novel came in June 2013, one evening as I was
April 11, 2019
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How (Not) to Compare Viola Davis to Meryl Streep
I wrote this as a comment on a Facebook post that, in discussing a tweet comparing Meryl Streep, Angela Basset, and Viola Davis, suggests that
March 25, 2019
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Game of Thrones Better End This Way
Discussing Game of Thrones is one of the few times random people are allowed to publicly wish death on other people and to invent
March 3, 2019
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TWC Prose Workshop in Nsukka
In December, I was at The Writers’ Community (TWC) in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka for a prose workshop. It was where we started:
February 11, 2019
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A Pop Concert by Chance
Sunday nightfall, I’m bored—actually I feel like munching succulent bread and Vita Milk—so Friend and I go to Spar. We are surprised to see
February 10, 2019
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6 Things This Week
Literature I have been touring the 2018 archives of African literary magazines for a Brittle Paper project. I resumed reading Miles Morland’s memoir Cobra
February 1, 2019
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