Inkuru Series: THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT OF AFRICAN LITERATURE with Jakky Bankong-Obi

Jakky Bankong-Obi is a media consultant and poet living and writing in Abuja, Nigeria.  Her chapbook What Still Yields was chosen by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for publication in the New-Generation African Poets box sets, by Akashic Books and APBF (Spring/Summer 2022).

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A.B. Godfreed photo by Nipah Dennis

Inkuru Series: THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT OF AFRICAN LITERATURE with A.B. Godfreed

As the creative persona of A.B. Godfreed, I am determined to embody what I describe as “the art of unthinking”. For me, this is about my ability to exist as an artist-scientist who consciously manifests work that is not only non-binary but also (self)transformative.

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ENITAYANFE

Inkuru Series: THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT OF AFRICAN LITERATURE with Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya

Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya is a Nigerian writer and storyteller. His internationally acclaimed debut collection of short stories, How to Catch a Story That Doesn’t Exist, an audacious social commentary on same-sex relationships in Nigeria, was published in 2021 by IfeAdigo.

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Frances-Ogamba

Inkuru Series: THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT OF AFRICAN LITERATURE with Frances Ogamba

Frances Ogamba is a 2022 CLA fellow at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has won the 2022 Diana Woods Award in Creative Nonfiction, the 2020 Kalahari Short Story Competition and the 2019 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction.

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LANTERNS – Naomi Waweru

Naomi Waweru (she/her), a Kenyan, is inspired by love, vulnerability, the yearning of bodies to be free in their connection, and she has an eye for tradition and culture. Her writings present an adoration for the body. She portrays it as your first sanctuary. She has been published and is forthcoming in Lolwe, Ta Adesa, Clerestory, Delicate Friend, Neurological , Overheard, Kalahari Review, Poems for the Start of the World Anthology, Ampleremains, Peppercoast, Afroliterary, Overheardlit and elsewhere. Reach her on Twitter @ndutapoems and Instagram @_ndutapoems.

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