Month: <span>October 2018</span>

NEWS

‘TELLING OUR STORIES’: FEAST OF WORDS 2018 HOLDS DEC 1 IN IBADAN

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 29, 2018November 4, 2018

Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers Ltd. is pleased to invite writers, performers, thinkers, artists, book lovers and lovers of literature to the 4th edition of the annual WRR Literary Festival – ‘FEAST...

ESSAYS

TRANSFORMING NIGERIA AND ITS POLITY: THE LAW AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL, an essay by Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-Hafeez

Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-HafeezOctober 28, 2018August 3, 2020

The major aim of any organized society is the preservation of peace and order. From time immemorial, when anarchy, chaos, confusion and disorder had been the order of the day,...

NEWS

AJPP 2018 SHORTLIST: WHO WILL WIN ALBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE?

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 27, 2018

We are pleased to announce the 10-man shortlist of the 2018 edition of the Albert Jungers Poetry Prize (AJPP), awarded to the best poem from the combined top 10 entries...

POETRY

‘ON A STORMY SHORE’ BY KINSLEY DOMINIC

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 27, 2018

The waves tossed at me, Trying to tear me up into debris, "What will be will be!" Was all that came to mind amid the crisis. How does one go...

POETRY

‘I AM POETRY’ BY ALEXANDER A ODUMAN

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 27, 2018October 27, 2018

I am the voice you hear From your sweet love, dear, Which, like a swift, sharp spear, pierces a young deer. I am the segment you use, The brain behind...

POETRY

‘WHAT I SAW’’ BY EZINNE ONYEKACHI OHA

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 27, 2018

Submerged within my soul are wise words, which my whole craves, Voices whose roaring breath enslaves the caves of sunk slaves. Last night, I dreamed my eyes to death before...

POETRY

‘THIS PLACE I CALL HOME’ BY CHINAZOM OTUBELU

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 27, 2018

I pray thee, father, speak to the cursed clouds that bear thy son’s wish, For this sick dome I know as home has stung lush lungs off my fish. I...

POETRY

‘REWRITING THE STARS’ BY SONEYE ANUOLUWA OLUSEGUN

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 27, 2018

We have journeyed on broken bridges and hovered through flaming caves, On crumbling bricks and through hollows of hell and hades. Our past pricks and the fear of a futile...

POETRY

‘JOURNEYING IN THIS JOURNEY’ BY OLOLADE AKINLABI

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 27, 2018

i This journey starts from the sea-men, Coalition of sea-men to meet the ova; Crumple and trample in the genital's den And at the blink of an eye, it is...

POETRY

‘INTERRED SOLACE OF MY SOLITUDE’ BY KOLADE MALIK ADEMOLA

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 27, 2018

When the sun overtly deserts the day And the beat of my heart springs to gay, My soul, that I know is frail Seeks solace in the solitude of my...

Month: October 2018

‘TELLING OUR STORIES’: FEAST OF WORDS 2018 HOLDS DEC 1 IN IBADAN

TRANSFORMING NIGERIA AND ITS POLITY: THE LAW AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL, an essay by Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-Hafeez

AJPP 2018 SHORTLIST: WHO WILL WIN ALBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE?

‘ON A STORMY SHORE’ BY KINSLEY DOMINIC

‘I AM POETRY’ BY ALEXANDER A ODUMAN

‘WHAT I SAW’’ BY EZINNE ONYEKACHI OHA

‘THIS PLACE I CALL HOME’ BY CHINAZOM OTUBELU

‘REWRITING THE STARS’ BY SONEYE ANUOLUWA OLUSEGUN

‘JOURNEYING IN THIS JOURNEY’ BY OLOLADE AKINLABI

‘INTERRED SOLACE OF MY SOLITUDE’ BY KOLADE MALIK ADEMOLA

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