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Agbowó
Agbowó is an African literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, essays, drama and visual art. The journal has published several works of literary and visual art since its launch in 2017 as well as three issues—X, Limits, Memory—of an annual, themed magazine. History Founded by Habeeb Kolade and Dolapo Amusat in 2017, the journal began as an expansion on the ''UItes WRITE Anthology'' (2015–2019), a literary anthology seeking to publish prose, poetry and fiction by University of Ibadan students and alumni. The magazine bears the name of the street opposite the University of Ibadan, the alma mater of the founders, symbolizing their move out of the ivory tower but Oredola Ibrahim, a founding editor, offered a different exegesis - "collectors of things of value". The first publication of the new literary magazine was award-winning Nigerian poet, Tade Ipadeola's ''On Desire''. The magazine has since gone on to publish the literary works of both prominent and emerging Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan (born 1992) is a Nigerian poet and essayist. With Ọ̀rẹ́dọlá Ibrahim, Malik is the co-founder of ''Àtẹ́lẹwọ́'', the first digital journal devoted to publishing works written in the Yorùbá language. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of ''Agbowó''. Education Malik earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English Language at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2013 and 2017, respectively. Works Malik is the author of two poetry chapbooks: ''No Home In This Land'', which was selected for a chapbook box edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani in 2018, and ''The Other Names of Grief'', published in 2021 by Konya Shamsrumi, an African poetry press which he formed with four other Nigerian poets in November 2017. His poems, which often come off as dirges, threnodies, elegies and such other melancholic typologies of poetry, have attracted wide reviews on different literary platforms, including ''Open Country Mag'', ''Olongo Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adedayo Agarau
Adedayo Agarau is Nigerian poet, essayist and art administrator. Agarau is a member of the UnSerious Collective. He is the editor-in-chief of '' Agbowo'', an African literary magazine. He was a founding editor at IceFloe Press, Canada as the New International Voices editor and African Chapbook Acquisition manager. Agarau curated and edited ''Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry.'' Adedayo is a Cave Canem Fellow and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University '25. Work Agarau is the author of three poetry chapbooks: ''For Boys Who Went'', 2016, ''The Origin of Name'' which was selected for a chapbook box edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani in 2020, and ''The Arrival of Rain'', published in 2020 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. His writing is leading conversations on the possibilities of a wave of the new generation Nigerian writers and have attracted wide review from magazines like ''Open Country'', ''YesPoetry'', and ''AfroCritik''. Agarau's poems have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan February
Logan February (born April 23, 1999) is a Nigerian poet, essayist, music reviewer, singer, songwriter, and LGBTQ activist. Biography Logan February was born in Anambra state of Nigeria on 23 April 1999, and grew up in Ibadan. Logan studied psychology at the University of Ibadan, and Creative Writing at Purdue University. They are non-binary and use they/them pronouns. Works Logan is the author of ''In the Nude'', published in Nigeria by Ouida Poetry, 2019, and as ''Mannequin in the Nude'' by PANK Books in the USA. They are also the author of the chapbooks ''Painted Blue with Saltwater'' (Indolent Books, 2018). ''How to Cook a Ghost'' (Glass Poetry Press, 2017). Logan is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee and their poetry collection, ''Mannequin in the Nude'' was a finalist for in the 2018 African Poetry Book Fund and was also listed in one of the top fifteen debut book in Nigeria by '' Brittle Paper''. Logan reviews music for online magazines. In 2017 they were featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |