Category: Poetry

Poetry

Kelvin Kellman: The Poet as a Cartographer

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Jul 21, 2022

The poet Kelvin Kellman at the African Studies department, Oxford University.

by Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

Tags A Nigerian Christmas, Kelvin Kellman

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

Tags Carl Terver, deborah samuel, elegy written in may, harira jibril, Nigerian poetry, Tonite I Am Complete With All the Deaths My Country Has Gifted Me

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

Tags benin, crucifix, kwararafa, Nigerian poetry, oko owi ocho, we will sing water

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

Tags afapinen chapbook, finima, heiress, niger delta, Nigerian poetry, someday i will be the shape of my story, tares oburumu

Poetry

The Gangster Poets of Ajegunle

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Nov 3, 2021

Illustration by TJ Benson

by UMAR ABUBAKAR SIDI

Poetry

Playing Avant-Garde or Theory of Dream

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Nov 3, 2021

Illustration by TJ Benson

by UMAR ABUBAKAR SIDI

Poetry

In This Poem Prophecies Come to Pass

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Oct 21, 2021

Illustration by Muhammad Ndamazhi Aliyu

by MINKAIL OLAITAN

Poetry

Two Poems by Ismail Bala

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Sep 28, 2021

Photo: Adoka Adaji

by ISMAIL BALA

Tags ismail bala, Nigerian poetry, the span of something

Poetry

Sonata of Joda

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Sep 4, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by CARL TERVER

Tags Carl Terver, sonata of joda

Poetry

The Flame We Dragged In

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Jul 26, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by AHMED MAIWADA