Tag: POETRY
Eleven poets to join Wole Soyinka at ProvidusBank World Poetry Day...
Eleven poets will join Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka at the 2026 ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café scheduled for March 19 in Lagos.
The event, themed...
Ewi exponent Olanrewaju Adepoju dies in Ibadan
Olanrewaju Adepoju, an exponent of traditional Yoruba poetry known as ewi has died.
The broadcaster and performance poet died around 7 pm on Sunday at...
Dolapo Osinbajo meets Nigerian contributors to Things Fall Apart poetry book
Dolapo Osinbajo, wife of the former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has met five Nigerian poets who contributed to the new poetry book Things Fall...
Akeem Lasisi fuses poetry with visual arts in African Citations
Popular performance poet, Akeem Lasisi, is set to hold an exhibition titled African Citations, as a means of "bringing something new into poetry."
Lasisi said...
Poetics of Maya Angelou nine decades on
By Oluwafunmilayo Iyanda
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States of America on April 4, 1928. She enjoyed...