Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - (Book) Still Selling; "Poems For A Century: An Anthology On Nigeria"

Chidi, Odia and Obi:

 

Thanks to you all for reviving our interest in poetry. Lamikanra still pursues his annual event in Ilesa; Okediran continues as well.

 

If you are in Lagos, Freedom Park and Bogobiri are great venues to listen to poems. The cast of new talent is too good to be true. Twice at Bogobiri, I did not get a space to even stand. New forms of nationalism have emerged around hybrid identities: Igbo who speak only Yoruba; Yoruba who speak only English; folks from other African countries who congregate in cosmopolitan spaces and imagine new homes. Romantic love, with or without ganja! Pidgin, creole, new words that are not in the dictionary….

 

I am currently initiating a new reading club at Ibadan.

 

I write mediocre poems as well, so mediocre that many will be shared after my death.

TF

 

From: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 11:44 AM
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - (Book) Still Selling; "Poems For A Century: An Anthology On Nigeria"

 

 

Contributors:

Sulaiman Adebowale, Kole Ade-Odutola, Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, Richard Ali, Ifi Amadiume, Afam Akeh, Tade Akin Aina, Peter Akinlabi, Funso Aiyejina, Ismail Bala, John Pepper Clark, Omohan Ebhodaghe, Amatoritsero Ede, Hope Eghagha, Ogaga Ifowodo, Zainabu Jallo, Adebayo Lamikanra, Akeem Lasisi, Okinba Launko, Chidi Anthony Opara, Uche Nduka, Obi Nwakanma, Cyril Obi, Olu Oguibe, Tolu Ogunlesi, Tanure Ojaide, Tope Omoniyi, Femi Oyebode, Jekwu Ozoemene, Remi Raji, E. E. Sule, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Sumaila Umaisha, Olajumoke Verissimo, Molara Wood, and Prince Abiathar Zadok.

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

 

 

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