Poetry

Contraband Bodies is a debut to be reckoned with. Jide Salawu shines in this personal record of diaspora and a country lost to precarious politics. Mourning home, Salawu deploys gritty language, razor-edge imagery, decolonial poetics, and granular details to highlight the diverse circumstances of...

Wahala first came to life as a fully-scripted work twenty years ago in my student days at the University of Ibadan. It was a bearded and bespectacled young man’s revolt against conformity, a search for meaning, a toast to love, a damnation of increased...

These 267 original poems by 127 poets from 4 continents celebrate Pius Adesanmi, reflect philosophically on existence, mortality, and immortality, and/or offer hope for the living.

Unbound gives voice to a generation that has been culturally, socially and politically underrepresented. But the poets now tell their stories, declaring: “We are here. Our norms and values are valid.” The target audience for this anthology is anyone, regardless of geographical location and...