Hey, you are up already? 🗣.
Write something. The deadline is almost here🙊.
shamsrumi.org/submissions
#poetrycompetition

Rise and shine for it is competition O'clock📢. Grab a chance to win some Jellof rice money doing what you love. Details in the flier👇.
Good luck.
P.S. peep at our Dr. judge🙈 here Funmi Gaji, PhD
#religion #new #competition

Kwesi Brew, a poet, playwright, and academic was born in 1925. All of his works explored the social and political issues facing Ghana and Africa which includes several plays and essays. Did you know he was a respected professor of English at the University of Ghana?
#poeticcrush

Applications close Sunday 7th April. Make a difference and apply today.
Application link ➡️ bit.ly/49MBQ3N

Hey, its April already and we are still pushing😊.

#April FoolsDay
#April

It's Wednesday suddenly in the last week of March and we make a trip to Kenya with a brilliant tour guard called Frank Njugi
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Every 21st of March, the world comes together to celebrate poetry. Happy World's Poetry Day people📢.
#WorldPoetryDay2024

Dear Aunty,

The Gambia seems to be on a retrogression path surprisingly.

I And the girls are finding it hard to sleep. If the law is passed, do you think the same will be done here too?

It is sad, it really is.
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#SRH4U #FGM #Gambia #religiousrights #Culture

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Akumbu Uche debuts in The Lagos Review with one of our finest gazelle's, 'I am a body of water' by Bisola Bada.

We will be live by 5:00 pm on the dot today on Instagram. Make it a day with us.
#InternationalWomenDay #8thmarch #women #inclusion #accelerate

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We are so sorry for disappointing everyone today. We indeed lolk3d forward to knowing how Erinola E. Daranijo and Joemario Umana thought as regards this gazelle. We really thought the network was much better but it happened again today. We promise to work on it and do this again.

Today is the day📢🤠. Hope you are ready 👾? Come with a truck filled with 'how's' and 'whys' and 'what were you thinking?' For our gazellers🤗. See you at 7:30pm..
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Come Thursday, the 7th of March, at 7:30 pm, Joemario Umana and Erinola E. Daranijo will be up and ready to answer all the questions you might have about the content of their gazelle🤗. If you haven't read it, there is still time😇.
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D4thAllie laments but also uplifts with her words in this gazelle. Is it romance, a lost country, womanhood, or everyday emotions? Her gazelle, Florida Babel Eden does not stray from this task. You can order it here👇
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#gazelles #chapbooks #new

ode odu is a sojourner. In this gazelle, he decides to open his heart up so we see his loss, his trauma, and his lessons through the days. For a 1000 naira, you can pre-order it right here👇.
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#gazelles #preorder #africanpoemsbyafricans

Just look at our newest baby😅.
Access the rest here👇.
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#africanpoems
#WINNER
#Thedistance #poetryprizewinner #poetrycommunity

Its another Tuesday and we are suddenly hot and shaky when we overthink a time when a wheelbarrow filled with money will be the only way to afford bread in a Nigerian market. Looks like this poet wasn't dreaming when he wrote this poem.
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