Want to understand just how much trouble Nigeria is in? A sitting Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has ...
Poetry can be likened to spades, whose ability to dig deep and unearth largely depends on who is handling it. ...
When I first discovered Yakeeb’s poetry chapbook ‘Numb Tantrums’, I was particularly moved by how it was able to capture ...
Yesterday we debuted two new poems from Esther Edoho’s fantastic new chapbook, Moonflower, a poetry collection that explores love, displacement, migration and ...
As part of YNaija’s dedication to the arts and especially literature from Nigeria and the continent, we have opened our ...
by Reginald C. Ofodile Valentine Onyeka Ogunaka, the author of Dreams Wake Me, a collection comprising of both conventional poetry ...
by Soyombo Ayomikun Let us burn Nigeria down 1. So the ethnic deceptions Can end, So we can greedily ...
by Cyril James Awake, you dying eagle. Awake to your long lost pride; To the tide of foreign waters. ...
by Adekunle Adewunmi Evil eviscerates under the sun Common commune among men There is a virtue I know about ...
by Oreoluwa Fakorede People, dreams, fleeting joys and repressed sorrows Cars owned, cars leased and cars borrowed Traffic, the runners ...
by Eyiamoni Apeji This is the beginning of a terrible joke so, brace yourselves. Relax, it’s not a knock ...
by Soyombo Ayomikun 1.That we screamed Sai Baba Doesn’t mean we Won’t ask ‘Where Baba?’ That we ask Where ...
by Rachel Ogbu// Zimbabwean-British playwright Zodwa Nyoni has been hailed by the BBC for making her voice heard with her new play Ode ...
by Odimegwu Onwumere We heard he sent a letter to the Senate On January Nineteen Two Thousand and Seventeen. ...
by Soyombo Ayomikun 1.Of Nneka I once heard Whose rich husband Always rages Like a demon let loose From hell. ...
by Ebenezar Wikina This is poetry This is the good old boring poetry But before you shut your eyes ...
by Isoken Aruede Why do we hold a grudge? Perhaps you and I are ignorant In the stench of ...
by Ezinne Ukoha Make the hole bigger and circle it with the evidence of ignorance that is rife for naught. ...
by Ore Fakorede I met someone. She has kind eyes and a soft heart, an easy smile and a ...
by Boluwatife Afolabi To love is to die every night hoping to wake up in a dream where love is ...
by Eyiamoni Ipeji This one goes out to the monsters who wear their pants when they sit at home. To ...
by Oreoluwa Fakorede When your natural example is a disaster, how long before your feet find their way off the ...
by Simon Kolawole Mario Matthew Cuomo, former three-time governor of the American state of New York, was known for his ...
What could Spokenword and Soul Music have in common? You can ask REZthaPoet and Isaac Geralds, or you could just ...
“The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the ...
by Ogunleke Adekunle Emmanuel Although this story’s resolution or black out might have to be written later, I am optimistic ...
by Elizabeth Edirin Enajeroh you see her in blinding white emotions explode in your chest you start to cry you ...
by Adedoyin Olumodeji ERSATZ Rivers flowing with glee, Buried beneath souls, so deep, Sun shining with glee, Hidden within, hearts so ...
by ‘Káyọ̀dé Oyèró And Kpeti’s great household is no more, Only the broken fence stands; And those who dared not ...
by Henry Emenike Anumudu I. On that dark and moonless night I saw them… Trample noiseless into cascades of derelict ...