‘SUICIDE’ & ‘THE NIGHT IS NOT DARK’ (POEMS BY YUSUFF UTHMAN ADEKOLA)
Suicide First, the mind dies, leaves life, but returns as a zombie covered in festering wounds of thoughts. Then, so the world does not weep before their time to weep,...
CHUKWUEMEKA AKACHI: AN AFRICAN KNOWS NO DEPRESSION – (COMMENTARY BY OPPONG CLIFFORD BENJAMIN)
So the brilliant and successful Nigerian writer, Chukwuemeka Akachi died in suicide and I am not moaning. Akachi had nothing in life to trade for life. He was only waiting...
ADENIYI’S ‘THE EFFECTUAL, FERVENT PRAYER’ IS PURPOSEFUL, NOT PATRONISING & FOR THOSE WILLING TO TREAD THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
While reading this text, you don’t get the feeling of a patronising, self-absorbed preacher talking down at his congregation but of a forgiving preacher who realizes he is as vulnerable to weakness as a human as much as the reader.
REVIEW: THE ILLUMINANT’S LESSONS LEAVE LASTING IMPRESSIONS & REMIND OF THE SURREALISM OF EXISTENCE
The Illuminant has moral and didactic lessons. The poet is almost like a seer who is trying to align mankind with morality.
DARKEST HOUR by Anyanwu Sixtus
I met love just like the cloud couldHold the glittering stars so dearWill my love for her go clandestineAfter ages upon ages do I waitJust to have her been cuddled...
LOSING UNSPOKEN LOVE by El Sane Ken Silencer
The star that glisten the night, if gone, darkness eschew' the eyes light, leaving the soul restless; love built unspoken, kills when lost and of it is the most brutal...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST [MAY 2019] ‘EXPRESS YOUR RAGE’
All (Nigerian) poets are invited to enter their poems for the May 2019 edition of the monthly BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST themed: ‘‘EXPRESS YOUR RAGE (IN POETIC VERSE)’.
EFE-KHAESE RINSE DESMOND WINS BPPC APRIL 2019
Poet, essayist and story-teller Efe-khaese Rinse Desmond has won the April 2019 edition of the monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) which was themed ‘HUMAN HERITAGE – THE COMMONWEALTH OF...
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ENTER FOR THE 2019 SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA PRIZE [PRESS RELEASE]
Short Story Day Africa has announced the 2019 theme of the annual SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA PRIZE. The theme is 'disruption' and the Prize welcomes short fiction of between 3000...
7 RECOMMENDED NIGERIAN POETRY EVENTS IN 2019 (AS COMPILED BY PRECIOUS OKEKE)
If you are a lover of poetry (and literature) like me, and want to have a great time with fellow Nigerian literary enthusiasts in 2019, I recommended these 7 events for you…