Konya Shamsrumi author becomes travel magazine Africa Editor
In a bid to achieve their goal of internationalism, Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel has moved to Regional Editor format. This move saw the announcement of Konya Shamsrumi’s author […]
African Poetry: Cover of Leila Chatti’s debut released
Leila Chatti’s poetry collection, Deluge, is set for release in April 2020 from Copper Canyon Press. Deluge is this African poet’s first full-length collection. It contains fifty-two poems written over […]
Home Is The Story We Are Made Of – #Andrea
Andrea Grieder is a poet and social anthropologist. She is the founder and director of Transpoesis, an organization based in Rwanda with the aim to empower through Poetry. Originally from […]
Richard Ali reads at LABAF ’19
KONYA SHAMSRUMI Collective member and author of The Anguish and Vigilance of Things, Richard Ali, graced the Lagos Books and Arts Festival 2019. On the 4th of November, 2019, Richard […]
The Praxis team begins Praxis Books Tweet Chat
On Friday, the 1st of November 2019, Praxis Books will hangout with Dami Ajayi on Twitter. The themes of the conversation are poetry, mental health and music. Keep a date. […]
Konya Shamsrumi Announces SAI Sabouke as Managing Editor
Abuja, Nigeria. Release: For Immediate Release Nigerian poet, SAI Sabouke, has been appointed Managing Editor of Konya Shamsrumi, effective immediately. This decision was arrived at after extensive consultations within the Konya Shamsrumi […]
Umar Sidi’s The Poet of Dust is on the #LABAF2019 Books List
These are the LABAF 2019 Books. There is a purple book somewhere there. Congratulations to Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of Dust, PEN Nigeria’s 2019 Anthology, Femi Morgan’s Renegade and […]
(Photos) Umar Sidi and Nze Ifedigbo – Port Harcourt
Award-winning poet, Dr. Obari Gomba of the University of Port Harcourt, moderated a reading by our own Umar Sidi (The Poet of Dust) and Nze Sylva Ifedigbo on the 21st […]
Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Yahya Ishaq
Konya Shamsrumi: What is the process of writing a poem like for you? Is it a lot of hard work or easy? Yahya Ishaq: I will say the writing process […]
Dami Ajayi @ Goethe Nairobi: My Love For You is Psychosis
Nigerian poet, Dami Ajayi, teamed up with Kenyan nyatiti player, Makadem, for Dami’s poem, My Love For You is Psychosis in October 2018. The session was moderated by the novelist, […]
