poetry

The Nigerian Students Poetry Prize, an initiative of Poets in Nigeria, has invited entries for its 2022 edition. The competition, which is open to interested Nigerian undergraduates, will close on March 7, 2022. Organisers said that…

Dilaminou Theila, says we find freedom in slam poetry, strides confidently onstage in a working-class neighbourhood in Senegal's seaside capital Dakar to recite free-form verses about love. "Like the prodigal son/I set out to discover…