Jalada Mobile Festival
This is the year for literary breakthroughs in Africa. The year for Praxisness. Yesterday, Jalada Africa, a Pan-African collective sent…
“The Musicality of Hope” by Michael Akuchie
The pioneer installment of the anthology, “Through the Eye of a Needle: Art in the Time of Coronavirus”, was received…
Sidi's The Poet of Dust is an Ancient Labour Room of Stars
Photo: The Hindu On Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of Dust * * * What is life? What is the…
An Apology of the Clergy: Response to Samuel A. Adeyemi's To the Clergy
Samuel A. Adeyemi An Apology of the Clergy Carl Terver Samuel A. Adeyemi’s language in “To the Clergy” is constructed…
Conversations with BRUNEL POETRY PRIZE SHORTLIST
Introduction The idea to interview the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize shortlists, and to package the interviews in one…
2016 Writivism Creative Writing Workshops
IMPORTANT: Get published here! The 2015 Writivism Festival was as successful as it was exciting. The festival was preceded with…
An African writer and Brighton scholar in Makurdi with Carl Terver
After the Benue Book and Arts festival in June 2019 I knew I had to talk to the organisers for…
“The Day After Forever” by Gloria Chimelu
Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay The Day After Forever We spoke of eternity, Of bliss and…
Reshaping Obliterated Faces: Ten Female Nigerian Poets.
Featured Image Credit: Nonyelum Ekwempu Reshaping Obliterated Faces: Ten Female Nigerian Poets. Nigerian literature has always flourished. It has produced…
“in case you stay away too long” by Nkateko Masinga
Image by Anita S. from Pixabay in case you stay away too long i’ll forget the chorus of our song,…