Tag: poetry

Design Indaba partners with Google, showcasing African creatives through Colours of...

Today, Design Indaba in partnership with Google Arts & Culture launched an online project called ‘Colours of Africa’. The project brings online and showcases...

The Lagos International Poetry Festival Is Here Again!!!

The 4th Lagos International Poetry Festival returns from Oct. 31st - Nov 4th with the theme Wide Awake, an emphasis on the growing importance...

Beeta Universal Arts Foundation Announces 2nd BEETA PLAYWRIGHT COMPETITION

Beeta Universal Arts Foundation (BUAF) led by the award winning actress and producer Bikiya Graham-Douglas created the Beeta Playwright Competition (BPC) to discover new...

Romeo Oriogun wins 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize

Romeo Oriogun from Nigeria has won 2017's £3,000 Brunel International African Poetry Prize for his "complex and ultimately beautiful" writing on masculinity, sexuality and desire in the face of LGBT criminalisation...

(VIDEO) Cry Of Her Unborn Child ~ By Othmanbee

Othman Banioh, aka Othmanbee is a spoken word poetry music artiste (a unique kind of art). He just released a video titled “Cry of...

Poetry: Almost A Bride

  Dressed in all white coming out to a crowd of people with happy faces, relishing in your joy as they hold their gazes. Taking a...

Poetry: When We First Met +18

For some it is an easy job to relay emotions, for others it is hard, for this character it is just poetic.   It all  started with the...

Poetry: She’s Not A Trophy by Nifemi Brown (@Brown_Mzz)

She's not a trophy Not similar to a metal Of whatever kind of precious stone Be it gold, sapphire, diamond She's not a trophy.   She's not a trophy Not for...

Poetry: I Am The One

  I am the one who is cut and bleeding out, The one that is never treated. You know that silent voice in the room? The voice that...

Life: In African Proverbs

Life oh Life. It is a distant place that is near to some, A place where the fish drowns or even dies of thirst, Where the dog...