Damilola Omotoyinbo is a Nigerian Poet/Writer, a 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency, and a member of the Frontiers Collective. She emerged as Winner of the 2023 Writivism Poetry Prize. She has also won several poetry honors. Notably; Co-Winner of the 2023 Writing Ukraine Prize, 2023 SEVHAGE/Agema-Founders Prize (for Poetry), 2021 SprinNg Annual … Continue reading
The residue of compulsive novelty and fervour still lingers in Makurdi Benue State, weeks after the debut Benue Book and Arts Festival lit up the city with wild energy in June. Predominantly known for its famed River Benue, Benue State is an agrarian state in Nigeria that conjures thoughts of tremendous agricultural food produce, incredible … Continue reading
Do you love listening to stories or would you just want a really cool place to hang out in Makurdi on the first Saturday of December? Whatever it is, you are in good company! In the spirit of the Benue Carnival that runs through the whole of December, Purple Silver and SEVHAGE Literary and Development … Continue reading
by Su’eddie Vershima Agema It was fun as SEVHAGE in collaboration with the Writers’ League of the Benue State University and the poetry group, Purple Silver hosted the poet, Dr. Musa Idris Okpanachi to a reading at the Benue State University, Makurdi on the 29th of May, 2013. The time was 4pm and the audience … Continue reading
Okay, you heard it here first! The second SEVHAGE Guest Reader Session/Democracy Day Reading… Award winning poet, scholar and deep philosopher, Musa Idris Okpanachi, author of the collections The Eaters of the Living (2007) and From the margins of Paradise (2012) is billed to have a reading and guest interactive session in Makurdi by 4pm on the Wednesday 29th … Continue reading
VENUE: Behind NUJ House, Makurdi DATE: Monday 18th June, 2012 The role of literature should be to instruct and entertain – Horace _________________________ PROCEEDINGS ___________________________ The event started at 16:35hrs. Opening Prayer H. O. C. Kochis’s opening prayer was in the form of a … Continue reading
Find the intro to the event here… Su’eddie Vershima Agema: Lots of people in Benue (and beyond I guess) would like to get to know a bit more about you. Can you let us in a bit on childhood, growing up and where you are at the moment? Unoma Nguemo Azuah: I was born … Continue reading
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