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Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets

Poetry

Spotlighting Pan-African Poetry

Location:

United States

Description:

Spotlighting Pan-African Poetry

Language:

English

Contact:

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Episodes

Deanna Rodger

10/23/2014
Deanna Rodger is an actor and spoken word poet. She is the youngest UK Poetry Slam Champion (2007/8) and completed vocational acting training in The National Youth Theatres (NYT) REP Company 2012. She has written and performed as a poet and actor in 2012 Olympic Team Welcome Ceremonies (NYT commission), Buckingham Palace (NYT commission), Speakers… Continue reading → The post Deanna Rodger first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Duration:00:07:57

Titilope

8/28/2014
When Titilope first stepped to the microphone in 2007 at a local open mic, to gracing stages from Lagos to Cape Town, New York to California, Edmonton to Toronto and places in between, her goal has been to remind people that the ties that bind us transcend all of the borders we have created. She… Continue reading → The post Titilope first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Duration:00:09:20

Dawn Garisch

8/28/2014
Dawn Garisch has had five novels, a collection of poetry Difficult Gifts and a memoir/popular science work Eloquent Body published. Both short stories and poetry have been published in anthologies, journals and magazines. She has had a short play and short film produced, and has written for television and newspapers. Three of her novels have… Continue reading → The post Dawn Garisch first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Marce Underwood

7/25/2014
Marce is a poet and classically trained singer from Cape Town, South Africa. Some of her poetry has been published in Sugar and Spice, a South African Anthology. She is aslo a member of a trio called Project Escape, which fuses poetry and music. The post Marce Underwood first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Nina Femme

7/24/2014
Nina Femme is a poet-feminist who is trying to master writing, protesting and finding balance in the pursuit of love and justice. Flowers and Feminism, a personally inspired poem, earned her second place in the national Drama for Life Lover and Another poetry competition in 2013. “I wrote my first piece ten years ago, but… Continue reading → The post Nina Femme first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Nduta Kariuki

7/24/2014
Nduta Kariuki is an artist working and studying in Nairobi, Kenya. She paints primarily, in a personal style that is derived from pop art, but dabbles extensively and has working knowledge of most art forms. Nduta is currently a fourth year Fine Arts student at Kenyatta University. She is a freelance artist and has worked… Continue reading → The post Nduta Kariuki first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Nana Nyarko Boateng

7/24/2014
Ghana based Nana Nyarko Boateng feels gratifyingly functional when she writes. Essentially, she doesn’t know any other way to live. The greatest influence on her poetry and writing career is her heartbeat. She admires and feels indebted to many more poets than five but if she has to name five; Kamaria Muntu, Jacqui Johnson, Kofi… Continue reading → The post Nana Nyarko Boateng first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

7/24/2014
Drawing from her musical background and her work as an actress, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo is acclaimed as “a priest of the art of performed poetry.” She has performed in venues in East Africa, Europe and North America, recently performing at the 2009 13th Stockholm Poetry Festival. An undisputed young master of the written word, Ngwatilo’s first… Continue reading → The post Ngwatilo Mawiyoo first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Kobus Moolman

7/24/2014
Kobus Moolman was born in 1964 in Pietermaritzburg. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing in the Department of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. He holds a PhD in English Studies from UKZN. In 2013 he received the 2013 Sol Plaatje European Union poetry award. In the same year, he was the… Continue reading → The post Kobus Moolman first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Duration:00:11:28

Kwame Dawes

7/24/2014
Ghanaian-born Jamaican poet, Kwame Dawes is the award-winning author of sixteen books of poetry (most recently, Wheels, 2011) and numerous books of fiction, non-fiction, criticism and drama. He is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, and a Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. Kwame Dawes also teaches in the Pacific MFA… Continue reading → The post Kwame Dawes first appeared on Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets.

Duration:00:04:36