Tag: Nigerian poetry

Poetry

Tonite I Am Complete With All the Deaths My Country Has Gifted Me

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Jun 27, 2022

Head of the Golden King Fish by Umar Abubakar Sidi

by CARL TERVER

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Essays

Samuel A. Adeyemi’s Confession of Unbelief

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Jun 11, 2022

The poet Samuel A. Adeyemi

by Ancci

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Poetry

Now That I Sing God into Stones

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Jun 6, 2022

Book cover, We Will Sing Water (Sevhage, 2022) / Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by OKO OWI OCHO

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Poetry

Tares Oburumu: someday i will be the shape of my story

Post author By Afapinen
Post date May 27, 2022

The poet Tares Oburumu in the illustration / Orndir Fanen

Poetry Chapbook by Tares Oburumu

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Poetry

Two Poems by Ismail Bala

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Sep 28, 2021

Photo: Adoka Adaji

by ISMAIL BALA

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Reviews

Amatoritsero Ede’s Eulogy in Teardrops on the Weser

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Aug 13, 2021

PHOTO: Author, Amatoritsero Ede

by Carl Terver

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Essays

Non-Romanticisation of Suicide in Nome Emeka Patrick’s Sylvia Plath Poem

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Jul 29, 2021

PHOTO: Sylvia Plath / Original: Warren Kay/College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

by Carl Terver

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Reviews

The Pan-African Teenager in Kayinsola Olorunnisola’s In My Country We’re All Crossdressers

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Jul 26, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

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