Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Maryam Gatawa
Maryam Gatawa Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Maryam Gatawa: It has never been […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Ahmed Maiwada
Ahmed Maiwada Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Ahmed Maiwada: The first step […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Khadija Isse
Khadija Ciise Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you:? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Khadija Isse: To me, it depends […]
Meeting of the Bards: Umar Sidi and Dami Ajayi
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN POETS UMAR ABUBAKAR SIDI AND DAMI AJAYI Disenfranchising the Poet UMAR SIDI: Throughout history, across cultures, the poet is held with a certain esteemed reverence. He is […]
Dami Ajayi and Umar Sidi go head-to-head at Konya Shamsrumi
#MeetingOfBards is a free-ranging discussion between two talented poets on their craft, exploring the landscape of ideas and inspiration in Africa Lit, as well as laying emphasis on the tricky issue of the future of poetry. With very different ideas, we find here the very best of two young writers pitted against each other, standing head to head. The conversation is divided into five segments—Disenfranchising the Poet; Poetry and the Question of Utility; The Aesthetics of Listening; Women as the Cornerstone of the Material World and The Mechanics of Craft.
Heart of Poetry: Alhaji Mudi Sipikin’s Wasiyya Sipikiyya by Ismail Bala
Wasiyya Sipikiyya (Sipikin’s Will) O Lord! I request that the day I should pass away, Let me die in my room. Before my family members, children, and siblings. I beg […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Chika Jones
Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Chika Jones: Sometimes it’s hard, other times it’s easy. […]
Al-Arshad by Umar Sidi (audio) #WorldPoetryDay
On #WorldPoetryDay, we are pleased to share a recording of a sequence on Al-Arshad, from Nigerian poet Umar Sidi’s collection, The Poet of Dust. This sequence is from the poem, […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Nyachiro Lydia Kasese
I think that there are no new stories to be told, we have heard them all in one variation or the other, but it is how we tell those stories that makes us keep reading.
Heart of Poetry: Tsenongu Moses Terhemba’s On His Neglect of Prose by Ismail Bala
From whatever perspective one seeks to see it, one thing is certain though: On His Neglect of Prose is indeed a beautiful poem that is not to be neglected.