Archives Tag: poetry
ELEVATE: A Celebration of Poetry, Music, and Spiritual Awakening
April 19, 2022
‘ELEVATE’ is a Poetry experience with a mission to heal and call out the greatness in humanity through the powerful tool of poetry. At ELEVATE, poetry takes wings and blends with music, dance, and stage adaptation, becoming a powerful vehicle that drives depths of change. Read more about Entertainment In the ‘ELEVATE’ experience, individuals … Continue reading ELEVATE: A Celebration of Poetry, Music, and Spiritual Awakening
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Floruit, An Anthology of Poems By Obiamaka Angela Udevi-Onwuka
April 19, 2022
Obiamaka Angela Udevi-Onwuka’s ‘Floruit’ is a soulful and wholesome collection of poems that tastefully explores broad themes that depict human struggles, life lessons, loss, relationship travails and love expectations. A riveting collection that will awaken or rekindle’s one love for poetry and keep one glued to the pages from start to finish. I find … Continue reading Floruit, An Anthology of Poems By Obiamaka Angela Udevi-Onwuka
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The Lagos International Poetry Festival Is Set To Hold
April 19, 2022
The 2020 Lagos International Poetry Festival (LIPFEST) is set to take place from October 1st to November 1st, 2020. This year’s edition will be the first wholly virtual festival, presenting the opportunity for greater reach and participation. It will centre on the realities that have unfolded before us during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the … Continue reading The Lagos International Poetry Festival Is Set To Hold
The Nigerian Reality In Loving Gladys
April 19, 2022
Nigeria as a subject matter is inexhaustible and forms part of our daily ritual. Loving Gladys is an anthology of poetry and short stories that conveys everyday Nigerian subject matters. It takes the reader on a ride through the streets of the Nigerian reality, and with good use of imagery, it exposes the circumstances that … Continue reading The Nigerian Reality In Loving Gladys
Tribe Fest 2018
April 19, 2022
Alluring works of art, good music and the perfect scenery brought many art lovers from all around Lagos to Tribe Fest 2018, organized by Executive Initiative (EI). EI is a philanthropic organization created by a group of young Nigerians committed to the development of their immediate communities as a first step to making a positive … Continue reading Tribe Fest 2018
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Recap – LIPFEST 2018: Conversations From ‘Finding Home’
April 19, 2022
Many arguments exist and still persist about why there is not the proliferation of poetry in mainstream entertainment in Nigeria, and while some views hold that Nigerians just do not appreciate the form of art, a handful of Nigeria’s finest exports in Performance Poetry gathered to engage the debate by simply practicing their art under … Continue reading Recap – LIPFEST 2018: Conversations From ‘Finding Home’
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CORA Book Trek
April 19, 2022
An evening of rousing book readings, conversations, poems and good music — the CORA Book Trek took center stage at the British Council, Ikoyi Lagos, on Monday, November 5, 2018 and was totally phenomenal. This time of year is the season for art lovers across the country and Africa in general. With events like the Lagos … Continue reading CORA Book Trek
By achem
LIPFEST 2018: Poetry Workshop With Lebo Mashile
April 19, 2022
The fourth edition of the Lagos International Poetry Festival (LIPFEST), began on Wednesday, 31st October 2018, with this year’s week-long event, set to push the boundaries of collective thinking through disruptive conversations, readings, workshops and performances. Since 2015, organizers of LIPFEST, have brought poets, writers and artistes from across the world to Lagos, for an … Continue reading LIPFEST 2018: Poetry Workshop With Lebo Mashile
By achem
SME Spotlight: TheBookDealerNG
April 19, 2022
Mariam Sule-Izuagbe is a writer and aspiring teacher. She was a Writer-in-Residence at the Ebedi International Writers Residency, and her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Ake Review, Brittle Paper, Ebedi Review, Arts and Africa, ITCH Creative Journal, and Litro Magazine UK. Clearly a lover of books, she talks to Connect Nigeria about her … Continue reading SME Spotlight: TheBookDealerNG
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Win 500k In Okadabooks And Union Bank Campus Writing Challenge
April 19, 2022
Are you a good writer? Do you think your stories are good enough to be published by the best publishers in Nigeria? If yes, then the Campus Writing Challenge is the chance you’ve been waiting for. Campus Writing Challenge This initiative by Nigeria’s top e-publishing platform, Okadabooks, sponsored by Union Bank Nigeria, is aimed at discovering … Continue reading Win 500k In Okadabooks And Union Bank Campus Writing Challenge
By achem
Naija Storybuilders Bootcamp By Facebook And Afrinolly
April 19, 2022
Facebook and Afrinolly introduce the Naija Storybuilders Bootcamp, structured for up and coming storytellers who are developing short-form content for digital platforms. Leveraging on the wide success of the Facebook for Creators training programme in Nigeria, the social media giant and Afrinolly announced the week-long intensive workshop in partnership with celebrated writer/producers, Dayna Lynne North … Continue reading Naija Storybuilders Bootcamp By Facebook And Afrinolly
By achem
Social Media Accounts To Follow: 5 Contemporary Nigerian Authors You Should Be Following
April 19, 2022
Right from the days of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, writers have always lent their voices to issues regarding the society. These days, our writers are not holding back as they have taken their fight for social justice beyond the shores of Nigeria. Their brilliant approach to presenting words and plots has earned them various awards and set them … Continue reading Social Media Accounts To Follow: 5 Contemporary Nigerian Authors You Should Be Following
Azino, Sonuga Launch Creative Africa
April 19, 2022
Nigeria’s creative industry has in the past few years grown by leaps and bounds despite the government’s seeming lack of support. Young Nigerians have attempted the impossible, gaining international recognition through their film, music, photography, fashion, literature, theatre, technology, and poetry. Two of such people who are making something beautiful out of almost nothing are Titilope … Continue reading Azino, Sonuga Launch Creative Africa
Poetry as Art and Passion
April 19, 2022
Chamber’s Twentieth Century Dictionary tells us that a poem is “a composition of high beauty of thought or language and artistic form, typically, but not necessarily, in verse: anything supremely harmonious and satisfying”. Harmony and satisfaction are key words here. Poetry isn’t just about writing lengthy descriptions of coconut trees or railing against a military … Continue reading Poetry as Art and Passion
Poem: The Whittled
April 19, 2022
Nothing there was, wasn’t whittled Whether a skill or an ideal or life’s simple things Win or lose, you whittled that Sink or swim, you whittled that too Even God whittled man from the dust of the ground Then, whittled woman from the flesh He’d bound The whittler, not the talker, wins respect For only … Continue reading Poem: The Whittled
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