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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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Beginning and Becoming

Beginning and Becoming By Chudi Okoye I. Primordial ChaosLong before that bold and blazing beginning,Before the One awoke and conceived creationThere had been only chaos and utter darknessA lawless void of...

The New Apostles’ Creed

The New Apostles’ Creed(A Declaration for the Age of Reason) By Chudi Okoye We believe in one God,the Supreme and Almighty Being,consubstantial with all that is,whose will immanates in nature’s laws,as...

A Toast to IBB at Book Launch

A Toast to IBB at Book LaunchBy Chudi Okoye (Second draft: Feb 21, 2025)What an event they made of it!Grand, gilded, and glitteringA blistering reminder of their mighty gainsAnd glistering provenance of our biting pains.

The Risen and the Chosen

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...

20% Population, 1% Political Power

20% Population, 1% Political Power By Chudi Okoye The math is simply mind-bending Bleaker even than in racist America Where once the beleaguered Black, Considered as White man's chattel, Were estimated three-fifths a human In their owners' political calculation. America re-jigged its rusted math After eighty years...

Stooperpower

Stooperpower By Chudi Okoye Anthony Blinken blinks inartfully At the spate of unspeakable horrors Visited upon Gaza by America's vexed ally. Joe Biden, his boss, bends unabashedly To the whims of a wild client state With balls bigger than its budget. Oh, how are the mighty crawling! Amid...

Achebe Mourns Nigeria

Achebe Mourns Nigeria By Chudi Okoye October 27, 2023 It seems that God Himself, like a Vengeful Creditor, would deny this country a respite or Civil Peace. It feels truly like the Beginning of the End. Everywhere in this land, even as you...

And The Voters Went Out To Vote

And The Voters Went Out To Vote (Lament for the 2023 Nigerian election) By Chudi Okoye (First Draft: Feb 27, 2023) Oh hear now all ye here gathered Words akin to ones once rendered By the Lord in his Parable of the Soils Here recast as...

Spit-At-Home Day

By Chudi Okoye December 14, 2022 It is sit-at-home day in the South East One fiercely enforced by local bandits Who have caused a split in our homes And cut a reddened slit in our hopes Today they killed a pregnant woman One among many harmless...

Rise Up and Walk!

By Chudi Okoye November 25, 2022 Apostle Peter looked upon the lame Squatted by the gate called Beautiful Fractured and forlorn, with no name His arm stretched out seeking alms And Peter said: Silver or gold, I've no stock But in the name of...
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Egwu Imoka 2020: Day 1 of Festival Amid Covid-19 Restrictions

By Chudi Okoye, Stella Nzekwe and Ken Chukwudi The 2020 edition of the traditional Awka festival, Egwu Imoka, has commenced. Day 1 of the three-day...

Public Service Announcement On The Closure Of Eke Awka Market

This is to inform the public that effective Monday, 15th June, 2020, Eke Awka Market, in Awka South Local Government will be shut down. This...

Beginning and Becoming

Beginning and Becoming By Chudi Okoye I. Primordial ChaosLong before that bold and blazing beginning,Before the...

The Compelling, Yet Complicated Calculus of a Jonathan Run in 2027

As speculation swirls over his potential return, Goodluck Jonathan must weigh the promise of redemption against the peril of forfeiting the very...