The Hordes and the Spin Doctors
By Chudi Okoye
Spare a thought for the huddled hordes in our forlorn fatherland
Their muddled minds spooked by relentless spinmeisters
Daily assaulted by fatulent accounts of a fabulous reality
Supposedly their lot instead of a dystopian existence
Created...
The Sod’s Prayer
By Chudi A. Okoye
Our dearly beloved Father
Thou which art in Aso Rock
Hallowed be thy name!
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done in Igbo land –
The land you crush with iron hand –
As it is desired by Fulani bands.
Master,...
Like the transient severity of winter, the blistering storms of ethnic rule in Nigeria will blow over and progressive forces could yet become ascendant
By Chudi Okoye
I woke up from fretful slumber this morning and found there is finally a...
With the current tally of votes in the 2020 US presidential election pointing to a possible defeat for incumbent Donald Trump, former president Barack Obama, a Trump bête noire mercilessly vilified by the sitting president, may have got his...
The Anambra State governor appears to possess the powers to punish the ‘miscreant’ monarchs, but he may have neglected to follow due process in exercising his powers.
By Chudi Okoye
Anambra State is yet again in the news, but this time...
A flock of vultures in flight is called a “Kettle”; when the vultures touch down to ground or perch upon a tree in descent towards their target, they are called a “Committee”; and when the scavenger birds are feeding...
Ineffective political leadership in Igboland is a concomitant of the weakness and inefficacy of Igbo political society.
By Anonymous
THE TIME IS NOW! The fight is for all Igbos, not for the leaders alone.
Let me complicate this a bit. All we...
Speaking in tongue can be abused as fraudulent pantomime, but like jazz scatting it has deep cultural roots as a way to elevate the mind beyond the clutter of temporal existence to commune with the gods.
By Chudi Okoye
I must...
A curious yet highly explainable tension persists between native born African Americans and immigrant Africans in America. At its simplest, the tension manifests as mutual antagonism between the seemingly resentful indigenes and the apparently disdainful immigrants. But the tension...
(Being an adaptation of a prayer offered by the African American, George Lawrence, in New York, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the abolition of slave trade in 1808.)By Chudi OkoyeO! thou father of the universe and disposer of events,...