Sane people don’t engage with lunatics, period.

When we walk through a marketplace and a mad man insults our mothers, we do not glance at them, how much more invest the emotion of anger.
nwokolo.com/y/heating-up-t… Occasionally, we may be seduced into a conversation by a man’s dapper clothes, but after a few sentences we hear the rattling bolts in his head, & recognise a mad man yet to strip naked. At that point, we cease to be provoked by his lunatic views, right? We smile, nod, & move on.

A few days ago, my young friend, Chekwube Nwa-Abugu Peter brought the movie, 'If I am President', to my attention. He had spoken glowingly of the film on his Facebook timeline. Then he noticed disturbing similarities between the film and my short story, nwokolo.com/y/if-i-am-plag… 'Ten Commandments of Nigerian Politics'. He feared (he is also a lawyer/writer) that my copyright might have been infringed. I was at the time visiting Accra for @writersPG 's Pa Gya Literary Festival. I am back now, and have taken the time to watch the two-hour film.

On 10/3/19, Ethiopian flight ET 302 made an unscheduled stop on its way from Addis to Nairobi and the ancestors rose to receive my old friend, Pius. In the announcement that broke the news, his home university at Carleton identified him as a Canadian.
nwokolo.com/y/an-epitaph-f… Indeed Professor Pius Adesanmi was not one of those citizens whose host country could hold at arm’s length with a hyphenated nationality or an exculpatory reference to his birth country.

Payo was one of our best...

In 2010, I posted an #OpenLetter (WHY WE ARE NO LONGER AT EASE nwokolo.com/y/why-we-are-n…) which was signed by dozens of Nigerian writers. Much of it is still relevant today: #Nigeria #Politics
"An Open Letter from Nigerian Writers "Nigeria’s failure to make the progress commensurate with 50 years of nation-building is not just a failure of leadership. It is first and most catastrophically, a failure of followership.