Chuma Nwokolo (born 1963) is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and publisher.

Early life and education

Chuma Nwokolo was born in

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, Nigeria, in 1963. He graduated from the

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in 1983 and was called to the bar of the

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in 1984.

Career

He worked for the Legal Aid Council and was managing partner of the C&G Chambers, practising mainly in Lagos Nigeria. He was also writer-in-residence at the

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, England. He is

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of the literary magazine ''African Writing'', which he founded with Afem Akem. Nwokolo's first novels, ''The Extortionist'' (1983) and ''Dangerous Inheritance'' (1988), were published by Macmillan in the Pacesetter Novels. His other books include ''African Tales at Jailpoint'' (1999), ''Diaries of a Dead African'' (2003) ''One More Tale for the Road'' (2003), ''Memories of Stone'' (poetry, 2006), ''The Ghost of Sani Abacha'' (2012), ''How to Spell Naija in 100 Short Stories'' (2013), ''The Final Testament of a Minor God'' (poetry, 2014), His novel ''The Extinction of Menai'' is due in 2015. His short stories and poetry have been published in the ''

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'', ''La Internazionale'', ''AGNI'',"Chuma Nwokolo, Jr."
AGNI ''MTLS'', ''Arzenal'', and ''Sentinel'', among other places. Nwokolo is a highly itinerant writer and travels extensively across the African continent to deliver lectures on African writing and culture. He is a member of the

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, the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, the

Association of Nigerian Authors The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) is a non-profit organization that promotes Nigerian literature. It represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe as its president. The ...

(ANA), and PEN. Nwokolo is a founder of the BribeCode, a nationwide campaign to eradicate corporate corruption by adopting the bill the Corporate Corruption Act, which he devised and presented to the National Assembly in 2015.

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