The Risen and the ChosenBy Chudi Okoye(First draft: Jan 13, 2025)The tone of the Tanakh tells it allAs do the texts of its varied scrollsThat many had in fact been createdBut the Jews were the truly...
To grow and consolidate, the early Christian Church vehemently suppressed any deviations from proto-orthodox theology, with Gnosticism a prime target. Despite centuries of imposed obscurity, however, Gnostic thought still resonates and, if nurtured, may yet find fertile...
What St. Paul had been to Jesus, JD Vance could be to Donald Trump: a linchpin to transform Trumpism into a governing ideology transcending even Trump’s presidency.
By Chudi Okoye
He went from childhood poverty and abuse, having a thrice-married mother...
By Chudi Okoye
We are at this moment more than midway through the Holy Week in Christendom, a period requiring of observant Christians that they engage in fasting and abstinence, along with meditation and prayer, as we re-enact the passion...
After much delay, President Bola Tinubu has sent a partial list of ministerial nominations for Senate confirmation. There are issues being raised about the nominations.
By Chudi Okoye
It is perhaps inevitable that in a complex and chaotic democracy like ours,...
By Chudi Okoye
(Tribute to Maya Angelou: “Still I Rise”)
You may slight us with your mockeries
Or spite us with your hateful forgeries
You may grind us into the very muck
And even bind us to the rueful murk
In which you and your...
A recent meeting of Igbo Elders with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja during which they pleaded for an ‘unconditional’ release of Nnamdi Kanu, the incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has sparked differing reactions across the...
The IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, elicits resentment and dread across the Nigerian polity, even among his own people. Many Igbos acknowledge the validity of Kanu’s critique of Nigeria, but there is significant apprehension about his adversarial approach which many...
Worn Nigeria
By Chudi Okoye
How great it was to be Born Nigerian!
Long long ago, in our mass hysteria
We felt elated, as with keen mysteria
Simply to be citizens of One Nigeria
We grew up knowing a Fun Nigeria
We had our fill of...
By Kenneth Udeoka Esq. (London, U.K.)
I would be angry now if I weren’t already so numb. These are not normal moments! Things are not the way they used to be. What kind of life and world are we...
To grow and consolidate, the early Christian Church vehemently suppressed any deviations from proto-orthodox theology, with Gnosticism a prime target. Despite centuries...
The final installment in a trilogy on existence, God, and religion, this essay examines the prospects for reviving African spirituality—long overshadowed on the continent...
A philosophical meditation on existence.
By Chudi Okoye
The question of why our universe (and possibly other universes) came into existence, specifically why there is something...