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Ụmụnnanwezuoakụ

1 year

For @afrocritik I wrote a piece on the direction that African literary magazines are taking and the challenges facing them.

Are African Literary Magazines Moving in the Right Direction? - Afrocritik

The Horn was little more than a ragtag publication. Robert Fraser wrote in West African Poetry that it was “skimpy in presentation.” It was a collection of

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

People who tell other people that the secret to being a writer is writing every day make me laugh.

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@NwokikeClub

7 months

What unpopular opinion about writing will have you like this?

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

The ideas that come when you're brushing your teeth, taking a bath, or doing the dishes should not be underrated. We should write an ode to these things.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

Love this!

Anambra 1st son

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1 year

What’s happening here?😂😂😂 I’m loving this new trend😂

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@ChimezieChika1

3 months

Some overwhelming news here! Happy to announce that I have been selected as a 2024 fellow of the @suyidavies ' The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors. This opportunity will give me space to finish the first draft of my novel-in-progress.

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

Rereading is the real deal. Everything you missed in the first reading comes to fore on second reading. It's like an epiphany. You don't know how much you love or hate a book until you've reread it. You begin to see hidden meanings. The icing on the cake is in the rereading!

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

Let's do this. Reading 101:

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@ChimezieChika1

3 months

Happy to announce that my story, "The Penitent", made Honorable Mention in the 2023 J. F Powers Prize for Fiction. May the light on this side never dim.

Our 2023 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction Winners! — Dappled Things

Dappled Things is pleased to name the winners of our 2023 J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. Our editors have chosen these four stories from hundreds of submissions, and look forward to sharing...

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@ChimezieChika1

6 months

Buchi Emecheta is the best Nigerian female writer of the twentieth century. Not Flora Nwapa, or anybody else.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

This is the most personal thing I've ever written. I am uneasy. In the four days I spent writing this, I kept Omah Lay's 'Soso' playing in the background. If you understand Igbo, I will share the link to Theresa Ojialo's song. Some might recognise it.

Spirit Wife, Spirit Life

To appease my spirit wife, I must first follow a process of knowing my chi, the guardian spirit of every Igbo person, and then head to a river.

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

I always tell people that my opinions are not set in stone. My opinions may change tomorrow. That's a sign that I'm seeing and reading and learning and growing. I have never been stiff with what I express; I always leave room for dialogue & understanding & illumination.

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@ChimezieChika1

3 months

Ukamaka is not "church is good". Replace that "church" with "dialogue". It comes from the Igbo belief that dialoguing is the first way to solve a problem, not plunging head-on into a fight. Ukamaka - "Dialogue is beautiful".

Ólú ndị Igbo

@VoiceOfTheEast

3 months

Chimamanda Adichie chooses really unique Igbo names for the characters in her books 😍♥️ Love it!

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

It feels good to see @ChinuaEzenwa teaching my essay, "The Wonder of Childhood," at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

Here's my flash story, "Who Will Pay the Workers?", out today in @fahmidanjournal Issue 18. As usual, I am always exploring the mind and its possibilities in the structure of fiction.

Who Will Pay the Workers? | Fahmidan Journal

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

Reading is not a competition. At some point in my life, I became a slow reader and that has been even more eye-opening.

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

Let's do this. Reading 101:

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

I have a short story out from @Lolwe_ today. I want to use this opportunity to thank @TroyOnyango and the team at Lolwe for the invaluable work they are doing for African Literature.

A Small Unit - Chimezie Chika | Lolwe

A short story by Chimezie Chika

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

That fiction is 'escapist' does not mean it must be 'happy.' Some of these light-hearted stories are what they are: light-hearted. If you want to understand humanity better, there's a type of fiction that goes deep into the human mind, motivations, and conditions of living.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

@Football__Tweet Forget stats, Drogba was everything you wanted in a player. The best African player ever in the Premier League. The power, the technique, the thunderbolt shots. Most of all, he trademarked the 'turn and shoot'. If, as a defender, you have Drogba's back turn to you, you're dead.

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@ChimezieChika1

10 months

In this essay I did a quick reevaluation of Cyprian Ekwensi's work and its significance in the canon of Nigerian Literature. Do read and share your opinions.

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@ChimezieChika1

11 months

@MarkOsuchukwu This is what you see in Awada. Five- and six-storey buildings everywhere but na staircase you go climb.

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@ChimezieChika1

10 months

Today I will be teaching a class on "Writing Literary Nonfiction and Art Essays" at the American Center in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Below are some of the essays I am using.

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@ChimezieChika1

4 months

Experience is invaluable to a writer. Try to gain experience. Go seek out experience, fight for it, scramble for it, do many things, in fact, for experience. The raw ravishes of experience will enrich the quality of your perception.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

My essay, "The Hanging Lake," appeared in the 50th anniversary edition of The Muse journal based at the University of Nigeria. This year's edition was edited by the lavishly talented @IheomaUzomba . Guest editor: @unomaazuah . Congratulations all round.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

We need more trees in the world! We need more trees in Africa! Let us think green, not concrete! At this rate, we'll soon turn this world into the world of Maze Runner and scorch ourselves to death! Nobody should tell you that the intensity of the sun these days is abnormal!

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@ChimezieChika1

3 months

@VoiceOfTheEast Ukamaka is not "church is good". Replace that "church" with "dialogue". It comes from the Igbo belief that dialoguing is the first way to solve a problem, not plunging head-on into a fight. Ukamaka - "Dialogue is beautiful".

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@ChimezieChika1

4 months

A literary culture that dislikes honest criticism will die. I am sorry.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

I reviewed @Abbakar_himself 's When We Were Fireflies, published by @masobebooks . Apart from what I said yesterday about the book, there are one or two things I said here.

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s “When We Were Fireflies” Examines the Primal Questions of Life and the...

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s When We Were Fireflies is arguably the greatest novel to come out of Northern Nigeria so far, indeed a worthy addition to the pantheon

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

You can't make anyone forget this by enacting silence. To remember is for us an act of self-preservation. It's the cry of our identity, crying for the things and people that were lost, crying the cry of unburied ghosts. There is no greater tragedy than erasure. So we remember.

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

You simply can't write if you don't read. All the secrets of the craft are in what came before you. Maturity comes from experience.

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@adedayo_agarau

9 months

Creative Writing 101:

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

Been terribly sick this last week, so this is a welcome news. Thanks to @sevhage , @afrocritik , my mother, and all who have been here and continues to be here.

Afrocritik

@afrocritik

9 months

Afrocritik staff writer, @ChimezieChika1 , has been longlisted for the inaugural Sevhage Literary Prize for Africans The prize, administered by Sevhage Publishing, celebrates African diversity in literature. More details ⬇️:

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

Earlier in the year I wrote an essay arguing for the need for nonfiction prizes in Africa. This seconds @Otosirieze 's tweet yesterday about the need for more nonfiction in Nigeria. -- Also find Otosirieze's tweet below.

Where Are the African Nonfiction Prizes? - Afrocritik

Never has there been a time when creative nonfiction and the memoir have exploded with all the delightful possibilities of truth, dialogue, confession,

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@ChimezieChika1

11 months

At eleven I found an old copy of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not Child in my parents' room and I never remained the same again.

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@adedayo_agarau

11 months

Quote this tweet with that book, novel or story that changed your life. CHANGED IT FOREVER! Mine: Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose.

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@ChimezieChika1

11 months

I've a deeply pessimistic view of the world. This is why the only sci-fi that interests me (whether I'm reading or writing it) is dystopia. I dream & have these trances, and I can tell you there's only doom. The only thing worth fighting for is love; enjoy it while it lasts.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 years

The NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature will be announced today. Read my essay on the way forward for the prize, published on @afrocritik .

The Architecture of Literary Prizes: What Does the Future Hold for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for...

Why is the NLNG Prize not actively involved in the promotion of literary culture in Nigeria? The only way to increase the cultural capital of the prize is through a conscious effort to draw out the...

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

@ObiiOutLoud Better advice? I don't know about that. But the more honest thing to say is to discover what works for you. Some people force themselves to write everyday and the writing increasingly becomes insipid. There's a life out there; living it enriches your writing.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

I have an essay in the @republicjournal 's latest print issue, 'Nigeria Imaginary', which, amongst other things, reflects on Nigeria's outing at the Venice Biennale.

The Republic

@republicjournal

2 months

Our latest issue celebrates Nigeria’s pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale with a repository of the ideas, people and stories shaping Nigerian art and identity. Our 20th edition, Nigeria Imaginary, is now available! Order here: Cover by Sarah N. Kanu

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent." --- James Baldwin. This here is an everyday battle, a struggle against the dark. Baldwin's level of insight into life is second to none.

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@ChimezieChika1

3 months

Cousins. One old and exhausted; the other young and full of optimism. Saved.

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

Co-curated @afrocritik 's 33 remarkable stories of 2023. You'll find great recs here. Takeaways: African writers are amazing with the short story form. African literary magazines deserve accolades! Speculative fiction is OP. One particular story in @OmenanaMag thrilled me.

Afrocritik

@afrocritik

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🚨Afrocritik sets out 33 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2023 ✨ Click the link below for more ⬇️

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

Alongside other writers/editors, I gave writing advice to debut writers.

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@farafinabooks

7 months

Embarking on the writing journey requires courage, especially for new writers facing the challenge of submitting their drafts to literary magazines.

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@ChimezieChika1

6 months

I wrote this exactly one year ago. The matter will hardly change any time soon.

Are Creative Writing MFAs the New Reality for Contemporary African Writing? - Afrocritik

MFA programmes are already incredibly powerful as it is; it can be argued that, while it is not exactly clear whether writing can be taught at a very basic

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

William Faulkner once said that you should read everything, both the good and the bad. Only then will you be able to tell what is good and what isn't. So read everything. Everything. 1/2

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

Let's do this. Reading 101:

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@ChimezieChika1

6 months

In the last seven years, I have ghostwritten many writing projects (creative, biographical, and research-based writing). I have also actively edited since 2018. Send work my way. My DM is open.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

"Idolatry" is a problematic word and only suits the user. If you want to sound objective, then using the word "idolatry" in any discourse doesn't do you any favours.

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@ChimezieChika1

6 months

One day we will talk about this tactful exclusion of home-based African writers from certain spaces and opportunities.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

Weary and tired. Some kindness, some love, that's what this rough head needs.

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@ChimezieChika1

13 days

A good time to share this craft essay published in @Efikomag 's latest issue. In it, I reflect on how suffering is connected to creativity. In my life thus far, I have come to the sober realisation that the artist cannot escape from suffering.

Suffering Is Literature’s Big Game

Visit the post for more.

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

2023 was really an incredible year for essay writing in Nigeria, partly buoyed by that @Catchoris essay. Glad to be in this list alongside some of my favorite essays of the year. I've read 15 out of the 18 listed here. This is a good place to get some good recs.

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@afrocritik

8 months

🚨Afrocritik sets out 18 Notable Essays from Nigeria in 2023✨ Click the link below for more⬇️:

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

How do you look at the future of literature in Nigeria & tell me there's no problem? It is willful blindness to claim its all robust and all when erstwhile strong orgs like Okadabooks are shutting shop and it's not just them.

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

Yesterday I was stuck in the middle of an essay and, not knowing what to do with my hands, I wrote this for you. You're a writer, so you will understand.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

In Oct. 2021, during a month-long writing residency in Iseyin, Oyo State, I visited this amazing place. The next year, 2022, feeling a strong sense of nostalgia, I wrote about the journey. The resulting essay was published in the 50th edition of UNN's The Muse. Link in the quotes

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

And then there's me, here in the spirit. Kam gwa gị: Aja Ani chooses whom She wants. These kinds of talents come from somewhere, they do not spring serendipitously. You should know this as onye Odinani. You neither know this girl nor her background. Biko, gaa nọrọ ala.

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@enyinnayaibeka

9 months

It’s absolutely disrespectful to our IGBO culture for a woman with Ọjà {flute}. It is known as the only instrument that speaks to Gods, calms down an angry spirit. It’s not made for a woman in our culture. This organizers should apologize Ndi IGBO #DadaNwaMmiri

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

I considered what the "No Gree for Anybody" trend might mean to Nigerians here.

Afrocritik

@afrocritik

7 months

“Human striving is unending; thus ‘No gree for anybody’ is the will of Nigerians to live and exist by all means in any situation.” @ChimezieChika1 writes on “No Gree for Anybody”, the New Nigerian Catchphrase for Tenacity in 2024 ⬇️

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

Early last year I allowed myself to publish this short story. It's part of a collection of linked stories set in and around Onitsha, which I have slowly worked on for a decade (it will be exactly ten years in December). Let's see how it goes.

Rhoda Beside the Road - The Shallow Tales Review

“Oh these? They are hundred naira each,” she said, watching the customer’s expression, the slight furrowing of his forehead as he debated which fruit to buy. Finally, he said, “First,…

theshallowtalesreview.com.ng

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@adedayo_agarau

1 year

Writers don't give their work enough visibility. Use this tweet to announce/promote your book, your new story, your new poems, and your forthcoming book.

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

Music is integral to my writing in the same way that reading is. Though they exist on different planes, they have a similar effect on me.

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

Materially and emotionally, this was a most difficult year for me. I also learnt a lot about how cunning human beings can be. I did a few good work too. I pray that whatever I have to say this time next year, it will be far far better than this.

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8 months

Writing is not a walk in the moonlight; many times it is getting stranded in Tibesti at high noon.

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

My titles come from metaphors. Metaphors that capture the central idea or principle... . Such metaphors may come from within or outside the story (while still being able to establish a link to it). Sometimes, I change the title of a piece of work multiple times before the end.

Breather of Seas

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7 months

I recently read somewhere that Flora Nwapa's Efuru influenced Buchi Emecheta's title, The Joys of Motherhood. I know that Chinua Achebe's title for his book, Things Fall Apart was inspired by W.B. Yeats's Second Coming . Dear Writers, how do you pick your titles?

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@ChimezieChika1

1 month

The greatest truth you'll realise is that we're essentially alone in this world. Keep your circle close or be aware of your closest circle. It will be a tragedy to go about thinking you have dozens around you, you don't. Sadly, social media tends to enhance that illusion.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

My story, "The Origin of Trees," now published by Iskanchi Mag, indirectly follows the history of a group of five trees over millennia. It is a criticism of religious fanaticism, and the disregard for history and environmental preservation in Africa.

Iskanchi Press & Mag 🇺🇸

@Iskanchipress

1 year

Read Chimezie Chika’s ( @ChimezieChika1 ) exuberant and adventurous short story, “The Origin of Trees,”

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

I have a flash story in this issue of Fahmidan Journal. Stay tuned.

Fahmidan Journal- Journal SUBS OPEN

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2 months

Issue 18 Contributor Spotlight! Out June 10th!

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4 months

Part of the reason why I'm still here doing this is because of the overwhelming amount of feedback I get. Perhaps without them I wouldn't be here. Sometimes you will look for motivation, yearn for something like it, and you won't find it. Such is the pain, and such the burden.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

Writers, which is more reasonable? To have a story trajectory first and place characters on it? Or To have characters first and, out of their unique compositions, extract a story trajectory? "Story trajectory" as I used it here is coherent plot/story.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 years

@The_Africanist No. That's not it. This is a female chieftaincy. Like Omu in Ọnịcha, Anioma, etc, and other similar titles in Oguta and elsewhere. She will not break kola in the midst on men, and especially not titled men, not to talk of "ọzọ." Go back to the village and ask proper questions

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@ChimezieChika1

5 months

There is a certain exuberance to Emmanuel's writing. The range and perceptive observations in this essay... Always grateful to read.

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5 months

I have a new essay out. it’s published on @afapinen and considers the myth of Lagos from the perspective of four great artists from different generations. read & let me know what you think

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8 months

I had to share this.

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8 months

The story of our lives. We move on.

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11 months

My short story, "The Staff," a slightly magic-realist tale of a strange event that happened in a family is live on @afapinen today.

The Staff

by Chimezie Chika

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@ChimezieChika1

6 months

It was a Friday like this. Moderating a book talk with @IkennaOkeh and @famous_dewriter at @UmuofiaBookFest last year.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

Learnt it's International Day of the Boy Child today. You won't hear all these platitudes from me, but I want to celebrate one man. @ChukwuderaEdozi is that guy: smart, hardworking, resourceful, never-say-never go-getter. You won't find a better human being. De eme, brother. 🤍

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@ChimezieChika1

5 months

In Nigeria, to be a writer is an extreme spot. You're battling too many life-threatening things. But on top of all those buffeting, you are also battling the crappiest set of networks that ever existed like every other Nigerian who needs access to the internet.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

@Abbakar_himself 's When We Were Fireflies is the kind of novel that will delight academics to no end. There is so much to dissect.

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@ChimezieChika1

10 months

Ekwensi wrote riveting fiction. I read at least six of his novels in adolescence. I read Jagua Nana for the first time in 2017. Yet, the great Ekwensi was just very mediocre at the level of craft. The poor sentences in Jagua Nana nearly drive me insane, and it's not only that.

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@J_Chiemeke

10 months

Of all the OGs, Ekwensi was, by far, the better fiction writer. Descriptive ability, sense of place, sucking you into the story, emotional investment in the characters, everything. But of course he didn't write "essays & plays addressing national issues", so dem no rate am.

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

With the adorable Ezioma.

Bookish Ezioma

@EziomaKalu

9 months

I met the brilliant @ChimezieChika1 at #umuofiaartsandbooksfestival and he's so full of wisdom. A great philosopher, that one. 🥰

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

Spec fiction is a form of protest--a response to the environment. It has always been. At the same time, a writer can write whatever they choose to write. There is meaning in conscious decision. When some people say that they're writing art for art's sake, that's also serious.

Oris Aigbokhaevbolo

@Catchoris

7 months

This fascination many Nigerian writers have for speculative fiction: Is it truly what they want to write and read? Or is it semi-dictated from the West? Has the latter quietly informed the former? Nigeria is kicking our ass but you are writing about malformed aliens in Onitsha.

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@ChimezieChika1

3 months

Before my eyes, all the money in my account is gone. Two debit alerts from an unknown source and it's all gone. I don't understand. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME? HOW IS SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME IN POSSESSION OF MY DETAILS?!! My debit card is in my pocket. Everything is with me, yet!

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

Most times, writers tend to tell their writer-friends a lot of lies regarding their manuscripts. There's a lot of dishonesty and white lies flying about simply because you want to keep a friendship.

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@ChimezieChika1

4 months

Once again, I will be reaching a class at the Eagle Nest Book Club/ @UmuofiaBookFest writers' retreat. If you are in Awka or around Anambra, come join. It's free.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

"In the body of the African women he drew, he espoused a love for the black race ... what he saw in Africa was a renascent race, filled with brio and optimism, in charge of its own starling destiny." Read my profile of the great artist, Ben Enwonwu.

Ben Enwonwu’s Indelible Mark on African Art

Ben Enwonwu’s impact on post-colonial African Art was nothing short of revolutionary. His life and work were a bridge between traditional conceptions of African art, and contemporary interpretations...

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

Delighted to be on the longlist of ( @iselemagazine ) The Isele Nonfiction Prize with many other great works. Kudos to other longlistees.

Isele Magazine

@IseleMagazine

1 year

We are delighted to announce the longlists for the 2023 edition of The Isele Prizes! See the longlists according to their categories and in no particular order:

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@ChimezieChika1

6 months

These are the recurrent issues that came up in this essay. African lit mags are having a hard time with funding. If you can, please support @Lolwe_

Are African Literary Magazines Moving in the Right Direction? - Afrocritik

The Horn was little more than a ragtag publication. Robert Fraser wrote in West African Poetry that it was “skimpy in presentation.” It was a collection of

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

As a matter of urgency, Nollywood should find quality child and teenage actors, or invest in their training. This situation where you have 30-year old looking women playing 16 year olds is less than ideal, to say the least.

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@ChimezieChika1

10 months

I have to post this big head or he won't.

TACHA.ETH🔱🇳🇬🇬🇭

@Symply_Tacha

10 months

you think you’re a fine boy?? Oya post your pictures!!

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@ChimezieChika1

2 months

Happy Children's Day to my unborn kids (lol) and to all kids world over. Let me share this personal essay I wrote on the vivid, wondrous, adrenaline-filled phenomenon we call childhood. The bottomline is that I enjoyed my childhood mgbe elu wụ ala ụsa.

The Wonder of Childhood | Chimezie Chika

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory—Loiuse Gluck When I was perhaps five or six years old, my twin brother and I created a game we called ‘Chopi’. It was a game of paper fig…

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

"I think a writer's duty is to be a writer, and if he can be a good writer, he is doing his duty." - Jorge Lius Borges "I want to be an honest man and a good writer." - James Baldwin

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@ChimezieChika1

10 months

Without doubt the Irish are in a class of their own. They are the demographic I have the most reverence for in literature. From Flann O' Brien, James Joyce, William Trevor, Edna O. Brien, James Plunkett, Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, Colum McCann, Roddy Doyle, Kevin Barry, (1)

The Ernest Ògúnyẹmí

@ErnestOgunyemi

10 months

Also. Please find any anthology of Irish stories. I believe Ireland has some of the best short story writes in contemporary literature. Thank you. No more.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

Yesterday was Ben Enwonwu's birthday. Here's to celebrating a master artist, a pioneer of African modernism.🍻 Watch out for my forthcoming essay on him.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

For @afrocritik I reviewed Emmanuel Iduma's I am Still with You, published by @masobebooks . It is one of best books to come of Nigeria in the past decade.

Emmanuel Iduma's “I am Still With You” Contemplates War, Loss, and the Burden of Memory - Afrocritik

Like many memoirs of the Biafran War, I am Still with You contains enough depressing, sometimes bitter-sweet, details of the war that would shock and elicit

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@ChimezieChika1

14 days

Let me add my own shot to these fine images of my city. Took this picture in mid-June. Guess the location.

janet meziem.

@meziemjanet

15 days

onitsha, 2024.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 years

Kindness is everything. Last Sunday, my friend @MarkOsuchukwu left us in the lonely halls of bachelorhood for the warmth of a beautiful married life.

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@ChimezieChika1

10 months

Please don't fall in love with people on some shallow whim. Be accountable to yourself and try to find out who they really are at a very deep level, so you don't wonder tomorrow who the hell is this new person, this evil character, you thought you knew all along.

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@ChimezieChika1

4 months

This plagiarism thing, man, it's crazy. We need look at it, and then look at it again.

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@ChimezieChika1

10 months

@oyibo_ugbo @Connectonitsha @UchePOkoye @Jack_ng01 @chude__ @S_mattahorn I was born and raised in Onitsha. Together with Aba, it has has the highest agglomeration of businesses and trades. But no Nigerian city comes close to Onitsha in the sheer amount of storey buildings on display. All built by private enterprise.

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@ChimezieChika1

2 years

I talked on TV last two Sundays.

Obumneme Anyafulugo

@_Anyafulugo

2 years

Here we discussed Odinala.

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@ChimezieChika1

7 months

It is ridiculous to judge a literary prize by any other criteria other than literary quality. Utterly ridiculous.

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@ChimezieChika1

16 days

One of the greatest books ever written.

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@ChimezieChika1

9 months

I have been thinking about it for some time now. This has been a very difficult year for me. This is the year I deeply understood writers like Hemingway, Plath, Woolf, Wallace, Pavese and others. It has been very very difficult. And I really don't know anything now.

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@ChimezieChika1

11 months

@MarkOsuchukwu Nwanne, i will not compare. They are both great in their own niches and styles. Let me also tell you: Fela's music is not just about the activism and all. That man understood music.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 month

Happy Birthday, ụmụ ejima. May it be well with us and may good fortune come to us.

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@ChimezieChika1

1 year

To friends of writers who think they recognise a certain character or their manner of speaking: we're sorry, it cannot be helped.

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@ChimezieChika1

8 months

So on the topic of African Literature, I wrote about books that should be considered classics.

Afrocritik

@afrocritik

8 months

“But as far as classics go, only a few attain that level of accomplishment. This however does not mean that some of those literary works are not good; not at all.” @ChimezieChika1 examines Africa's literary masterpieces, highlighting modern classics ⬇️

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