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To Hell with
Creative Writing; or, Politics:
an Alternative
Amusement
by
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
“To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds
we
carry inside us.” – Orhan
Pamuk
They will feel shocked. They’ll feel saddened. It is
for the good of the literati, you hope to convince
them. The general community as well. YOU ARE
QUITTING. Not because creativity has turned into an
exhausted oil-well. You just can no longer live
among the ghostly legion that yanks the imagination
in all directions or the riot of phrases – phrases
that strive to outwit each other. You. Are. Fed up.
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Friendship and Love in a Strange
Land:
A
Review of
Chike Momah’s
The Stream Never Dries Up
by
Terri Ochiagha
That Chike Momah should be celebrated as a relevant
Nigerian writer is indubitable. A member of the
Ibadan golden generation of authors, which includes
such literary heavyweights as his fellow Umuahians
Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Chukwuemeka Ike
and Elechi Amadi, and others like Wole Soyinka, John
Munonye and Flora Nwapa, his peculiarity resides in
that quite unlike the rest of authors mentioned,
Momah began writing a few years before his
retirement from the United Nations in 1990. Since
then, he has written five novels, all of which
showcase the literary quality and unique African
sensibility that made the works of his
contemporaries famous.
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