Arts & Life
African writers salute Soyinka on his 88th birthday
African authors ubder the auspices of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) have congratulated the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature...
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Three female writers named for Ebedi residency for July-August
By New Citizen Three new female writers have been selected for the July/August 2022 residency programme of the Ebedi International...
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PAWA: Literature Since Makerere – Communique
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE PAN AFRICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION AT THE END OF ITS CONFERENCE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON JUNE 24...
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Poem: l Know These Men, by Sumaila Umaisha
BY SUMAILA UMAISHA I Know These Men I know these men I know them all those mighty words you hear...
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Poem: Cacophony of Silence
By Sumaila Umaisha It is the era of empty voices full of forms and nothing the hall of silence loud,...
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Poem: When I Have Fears
By Rukayya Jibril When I have fears that I may cease to be, I bathe in tears, till the eyes...
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Develop your own writing style!
By Sumaila Umaisha The popular jingle, “If it is not Panadol it is not the same thing as Panadol” makes...
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Giving home to the vagrants of the North: Six years of Poetic Wednesdays in promoting poetry
I love to see and approach poetry as a mystical adventure, a metaphysical inquisition that leaves me asking questions, not...
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Untitled – a poem by Jamila Musa
I will pick a chalk of time Tread every path Write on the dark reality Wherein my brothers toil the...
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