At the 2019 Lagos International Poetry Festival, the Ghanaian-British poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley screened her film, Mother Tongues, “a poetry, translation and film series celebrating acclaimed poets of colour alongside the cultures, languages and women that have nurtured them.” Bulley’s poetry has been shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, featured on BBC Radio […]
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Editor’s Note | 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Issue II | Ebenezer Agu
In producing this anthology, there were challenges we had not foreseen, mostly because the individuals involved lived in different continents and time zones. Wile it has been exhausting, we have also experienced that rewarding joy of pulling off a difficult task. This year, we worked with 30 contributors, Yasmin Belkhyr and Kayo Chigonyi as guest […]
#PoetryTalk | Making an Archive of Private Memory: Interview with Kechi Nomu
Kechi Nomu is a Brunel International African Poetry Prize finalist. Her poetry has been accepted for publication in The Railto, Inter|rupture, Bangalore Review, Enkare Review, Expound magazine, Brittle Paper, and elsewhere. Between 2017 and 2018, she co-curated the Poets Talk Series for African poets. Her poetry chapbook Acts of Crucifixion (Akashic Books, 2018), was chosen by […]
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