Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Tinashe Tafirenyika
Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Tinashe Tafirenyika: The process begins with an idea, […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto: To answer this, I think I […]
Black Poets: Atukwei John Okai
Atukwei John Okai was a Ghanian poet and cultural activist. Born in 1941, he taught Russian at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Legon from 1971 on. […]
Shehu Shagari, Nigerian poet, dies at 93
Nigerian poet The death has been announced of the poet, Shehu Shagari, who, from 1979 to 1983, was President of Nigeria. The late political leader was born in Shagari Village […]
Closed for the Holidays
Konya Shamsrumi is closed for the holidays. We will be resuming January 15th, 2009. Meantime you can enjoy the blog atwww.shamsrumi.com.ng , follow us on Twitter @KonyaShamsrumi and on IG @konya.shamsrumi. […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Uche Nduka
Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Uche Nduka: The process is both hard and […]
Black Poets: Keorapetse Kgositsile
Keorapetse Kgositsile, who wrote under the pen name Bra Willie, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1938. An influential member of the African National Conference (ANC), he was South […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Janneth Mornan-Green
Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Janneth Mornan-Green: Someone once said it is better […]
Black Poets: Marion Bethel
Marion Bethel, lawyer and poet, was born in the Bahamas in 1953. Her first collection of poems, Guanahani, My Love, was published in 1995 and won the Casa de las […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike has written extensively under the pen name Uche Peter Umez. Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot […]