Open in app

Sign in

Write

Sign in

Ucheoma Onwutuebe
Ucheoma Onwutuebe

327 Followers

Home

About

May 23

TO A NIGERIAN WRITER CONSIDERING THE MFA

Dear X, I always return to Teju Cole’s Eight Letters to a Young Writer, not just to remind myself of the rudiments of the craft, but also to recall who I was ten years ago when I first encountered those words. Naive, starry-eyed, high on the immense possibilities of my…

Nigerian Literature

10 min read

TO A NIGERIAN WRITER CONSIDERING THE MFA
TO A NIGERIAN WRITER CONSIDERING THE MFA
Nigerian Literature

10 min read


Jun 12, 2020

Man, Following.

A friend and I were trading childhood memories and he told me of a time when he and his friends, all little boys, heckled a woman dressed in a tight pair of jeans. They followed her down the streets, hitting on empty cans and tins, chanting Nwanyi-trouser. In those days…

1 min read

1 min read


Apr 20, 2020

Finding God…again

I was seventeen and despondent when I first found God. I had wanted to go to the university but impossible hinderances stood in my way. A suspicious fee my parents could not afford needed to be paid. So I stayed home and languished for an entire year. That year, I…

3 min read

Finding God…again
Finding God…again

3 min read


Oct 10, 2019

A NOTE ON BREAKUPS

We all thought the first would do us in, capsizing our teenage world to a rubble of emotions not even the love of our mothers prepared us for. We were young, too young to know the elasticity of our heart, the vastness of its spread, how staunchly it beats even…

3 min read

3 min read


Sep 22, 2019

Dear Mama, There’s More to Your Daughter than Meets the Male Gaze

Dear Mama Behind the facade of our daily tiffs, beneath the moments we do not see eye to eye, and though I pretend sometimes not to get your points, I have come to recognize your noble intentions: to raise good daughters of stellar character. …

4 min read

4 min read


Published in

Human Parts

·Sep 18, 2019

My Mother Cooked for Her Husband, Now She Cooks for Herself

When my father died, my mom was freed from her life in the kitchen — Ever since my father died, my mother no longer whips up magic in the kitchen. This is not for grief; she has done her time at the school of mourning. These days you will catch her, radiant and beautiful as ever, tending to her life with her infamous pizazz. But…

Cooking

5 min read

My Mother Cooked for Her Husband, Now She Cooks for Herself
My Mother Cooked for Her Husband, Now She Cooks for Herself
Cooking

5 min read


Feb 5, 2019

You are not invited to my father’s funeral

Because it is not a fanfare. Because my village is very far. Because it is an event best suited for those who knew him personally. Because I will cry when they lay him to his grave, when the last gravel is tossed on his coffin... and I do not want you to…

Death

6 min read

You are not invited to my father’s funeral
You are not invited to my father’s funeral
Death

6 min read


Oct 1, 2018

SATAN, A DARK COMEDY:GREAT CAST MEETS IMPRESSIVE WRITING

Sneak peek and word around social media already had us anticipating a wickedly handsome Satan, but no one has yet captured in review how uber-talented Austine Onuoha is, and the vastness of his theatrical forte. …

News

2 min read

SATAN, A DARK COMEDY:GREAT CAST MEETS IMPRESSIVE WRITING
SATAN, A DARK COMEDY:GREAT CAST MEETS IMPRESSIVE WRITING
News

2 min read


Sep 23, 2018

BOOK REVIEW: THE GATHERING OF THE TRIBES BY EVANS UFELI

BOOK REVIEW: THE GATHERING OF THE TRIBES BY EVANS UFELI The Gathering Of The Tribes is the second work of fiction of writer and legal practitioner, Evans Ufeli, who rightly belongs to the school of writers like John Grisham; writers who hold deftly their legal practise and also excel in…

Writing

4 min read

BOOK REVIEW: THE GATHERING OF THE TRIBES BY EVANS UFELI
BOOK REVIEW: THE GATHERING OF THE TRIBES BY EVANS UFELI
Writing

4 min read


Sep 14, 2018

A Talent for Affairs

(or an excuse for your roving eye) — A cord of three strands A man A wife A Mistress A MAN When a man picks a mistress, he seeks an escape. He seeks a slice of enchantment to awaken a part of him that yearns for the carnal. He doesn’t seek warmth; warmth is in the bosom of the wife of his youth. Warmth is…

Fiction

5 min read

A Talent for Affairs
A Talent for Affairs
Fiction

5 min read

Ucheoma Onwutuebe

Ucheoma Onwutuebe

327 Followers

I write

Following
  • Elisabeth Khan

    Elisabeth Khan

  • Erica Verrillo

    Erica Verrillo

  • Jerry Chiemeke

    Jerry Chiemeke

  • Edwin Madu

    Edwin Madu

  • Casey Botticello

    Casey Botticello

See all (29)

Help

Status

About

Careers

Blog

Privacy

Terms

Text to speech

Teams