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Women Who Live On The Margin of Society: A Dialogue With Tshepo Jamillah Moyo

June 7, 2017 africaindialogue 0 Comments Africa in Dialogue, African Issues, Botswana, Botswana Writers, Feminism, Gender Activism, Human Rights, Intersectional Feminism, Interview, Poet, Women Issues, Women Rights, Writer

Sometimes “The Joy” but always a Poet, Writer and Super Hero; Born 1994, Tshepo Jamillah Moyo (TJ) is an unapologetic

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Brunel International African Poetry Prize Shortlist: A Dialogue With Kechi Nomu

June 4, 2017 africaindialogue 3 Comments African Poetry, African Poets, African Storytelling, Author, Brunel International African Poetry Prize, featured, Interviews, Literature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poets, Writers

Kechi Nomu was born in 1987. She grew up in Nigeria under two Nigerian dictatorships. Her poems have appeared in

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The Disappearances of Women: A Dialogue With Titilope Sonuga

May 29, 2017 africaindialogue 5 Comments Africa in Dialogue, African Issues, African Literature, African Poetry, African Storytelling, Chibok Girls, Feminism, Interviews, Nigeria, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Women Issues, Women Stories

Titilope Sonuga is an award-winning poet, writer & performer based in Lagos, Nigeria. She renders, both in verse and in

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Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2017 Winner: A Dialogue With Romeo Oriogun

May 2, 2017 africaindialogue 0 Comments African Poetry, African Poets, Brunel University African Poetry Prize, featured, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poets, Romeo Oriogun

Romeo Oriogun lives and writes in Udi, a little town in Eastern Nigeria. His poems, which mostly deal with what

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Poetry of the Human Body: A Dialogue With Mahtem Shiferraw

April 26, 2017 africaindialogue 3 Comments African Literature, African Poetry, African Storytelling, Author, featured, Mahtem Shiferraw, Poem, Poet, Poetry

Mahtem Shiferraw is a poet and visual artist who grew up in Ethiopia & Eritrea. Her work has been published

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Poetry and the Fullness of Things: A Dialogue With Ejiofor Ugwu

April 5, 2017 africaindialogue 2 Comments Africa Poetry Book Fund, Africa Writers, African Poetry, African Storytelling, Author, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Writers

Ejiọfọr Ugwu  lives and writes in Nsukka, Nigeria. His poetry chapbook The Book of God was selected by African Poetry

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The Art of Unlearning: A Dialogue With Koleka Putuma

January 17, 2017 africaindialogue 4 Comments Africa Writers, African Storytelling, Author, Director, Literature, PEN SA, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Theatre, Writers

Koleka Putuma is an award winning Theatre Director, Writer, and Performance Poet based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her plays

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On Womanhood and Belonging: A Dialogue With Ijeoma Umebinyuo

November 20, 2016September 30, 2018 africaindialogue 4 Comments African Literature, Author, Chapbook, Literature, Mental Illness, Nigeria, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Questions for Ada, Writers

Ijeoma Umebinyuo was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. She is the author of Questions for Ada, her first published

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