This Saturday, 11 April, an online poetry indaba brings together African and African diaspora women writers to read and discuss their work on migration. The event runs from 7pm to 8pm UK time and is organised by the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series in association with the Global Majority Writers WhatsApp Group. Registration is required to attend.

The evening features poets from Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration (CivicLeicester, 2024) and From Here To There (2025), reading alongside members of the Global Majority Writers collective. Taking part are Angel Patricks Amegbe, Ayo DeForge, Yvonne Greaves, and Sheda from GMW, and Philippa Hatendi, Nandi Jola, Rene’ Level, and Epiphanie Mukasano from the anthology series.

The lineup is worth noting. Angel Patricks Amegbe is the Nigerian-Belgian author of The Days of Silence (Masobe, 2021). Ayo DeForge, is the author of Tearless and Grips of Grief, both award-shortlisted, and most recently Under the Rain (2025). South African poet and playwright Nandi Jola holds an MA in Poetry from Queen’s University Belfast and has been a significant presence in the Northern Ireland arts scene. Epiphanie Mukasano, born in Rwanda and now based in Cape Town, has been publishing poetry since 2007.

The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is a volunteer-led initiative by Forced Migration and The Arts, in association with CivicLeicester and the migrants’ rights collective Regularise. The series has open calls for poems and short prose, 40 lines or less for poetry, 100 words or less for prose, exploring African and diasporic migration, the drowning of refugees in the English Channel, and the story of Edward Nkoloso and the 1960s Zambian Space Programme.

Register to attend here. The event will be recorded and made publicly available through the series’ CivicLeicester playlist.