TVOTRIBE’s Poet Laureate started in December 2018 by Victoria Olajide as a means of sustaining creative energy within the collective creative space. Read the entries that made it to the shortlist for Poet Laureate 2021.
Shortlisted Entries – POET LAUREATE 2021 Read More »
Inkuru Series Interview: In this interview with Victoria Olajide, Hafsat Sani Sami shares responses to questions asked only to create thoughts and ignite conversations in “Storytelling” across the theme; “The African Story.
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Inkuru Series Interview: Zukiswa Wanner gave insights on researching and writing in this interview with Victoria Olajide. This interview cuts across the African story, Literature, and research.
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Inkuru Series Interview: In this interview with Victoria Olajide, Gcina Mholpe shares responses to questions asked only to create thoughts and ignite conversations in “Storytelling” across the theme; “The African Story.
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Inkuru Series Interview: In this interview with Victoria Olajide, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún shares responses to questions asked only to create thoughts and ignite conversations across the theme; “The African Story.”
Inkuru Series Interview: The African Story- with Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Read More »
Moh:
sway with me before this altar,
left leg first… and then the right,
as we sink into this abyssthe ònàkakañfò facade.
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.”
POET LAUREATE INTERVIEW WITH DAMILOLA OJIKUTU Read More »
Do you have reservations about the African Identity? Why do you think African History matters? Who should be the custodian of our stories and how do our identity shape our thoughts? We want you to create timeless pieces by making a blend of history and the African Identity.
AUGUST 2021 CONTRIBUTION HISTORY AND THE AFRICAN IDENTITY Read More »
A generation of misunderstood youths
who dared not even dream,
it is therefore little wonder
how far beneath
had we been relegated…
Footprints of Our Ancestors Read More »
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