Generalismo
Moh:
sway with me before this altar,
left leg first… and then the right,
as we sink into this abyssthe ònàkakañfò facade.
Tribesmen
POET LAUREATE INTERVIEW WITH DAMILOLA OJIKUTU
The poet laureate is easily one of our biggest events as a community. Just as the Nobel Prize is bestowed on an individual who has done exceptionally well in a particular field, with the poet laureate, we seek to honour and crown an outstanding creative every year.
We make sure that our themes border on heavy African narratives. For last year, we had “sankofa yenkyi”, a Ghanaian word from the Akan tribe that means “it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”
Meeting God In Zakiyya’s CARVED
“My dad got me a poetry teacher, Paul Liam at the age of 8, to strengthen the meaning of poetry on top of my soul and to help with the foundation. After that coach, I gathered 30 poems suitable for publication. My dad published the book when I was 10 years old.”- Zakiyya Dzukog
Call For Submissions: African futurism!
Nnedi Okorafor defines Africanfuturism as “a sub-category of science fiction that is similar to ‘Afrofuturism’ but more deeply rooted in African culture, history, mythology, and point-of-view as it then branches into the Black diaspora, and it does not privilege or center the West.” Here at TVO TRIBE, We believe Africanfuturism transcends science fiction. We …
Dear Founding Fathers
Like African colonies did for our independence,
we shall repaint the faint images of heroism and
mold a strong victory and liberty fences.
POLITICS OF AGE IN AFRICA: A DIRE NEED FOR A CHANGE IN NARRATIVE
The solution to Africa’s problem, according to Barrack Obama, lies in looking within and not fruitlessly searching outside.
SIX Poems for every Black Woman on Women’s Day
We compiled six beautiful poetry pieces to share with your African Prima-Donna and to make sure you let them know how much you love them. Black Woman by Leopold Sedhar Senghor Naked woman, black woman Clothed with your colour which is life,with your form which is beauty! In your shadow I have grown up; thegentleness …
Sugar Cubes
SUGAR CUBES || Ibiteye Overcomer Ballot boxes are metaphors for sugar cubes: Dazzling, inviting, brides of anthills. Glazed cartons holding frail fragments of truth, justice, sweetness, of anthills. Brazen walls of power that makes their builders vulnerable, or is it the builders that make themselves vulnerable? Could it be that between the petulant layers of …
February: The Realization of Sankofa
For us on the tribe, February means more than a month to love and live. It means restoring family by taking time to revisit the past season and create measures to choose the best way forward.This month the tribe team will take a step back to focus on in-house activities. We would need your help …
Why Literary Organisations Ask For Previously Unpublished Entries
A number of people still view publications from the stand point of what it was some years back when the only thing considered as published are those ones put down in black and white as hard copies. This would still remain the truth in the absence of evolving technology.The evolution of technology has undeniably changed …
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