Join us for a conversation with our author, Sandra Hitarh, poet and officer, author of Voice of Your Village, with SEVHAGE lead, S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema. Graphics courtesy of Stephen Adakole. What’s your writing history? When did you start writing, what were your influences and what’s your earliest memory of your writing?Like a typical artist, … Continue reading
What is your full name and what is the meaning of your Igbo name? Where are you from and has your native background any leanings on your writing? My full name is Ifeanacho MaryAnn Uchechukwu. There’s more sha but this is what the government knows. Uchechukwu means the will of God. My complete version of my surname … Continue reading
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
In this interview, SEVHAGE author, Amaka Felly Obioji, development enthusiast and author of Mother, Did You Call My Name? is in conversation with Jola Ademola on her writing and much more. Enjoy: JOLA: What inspired you to compile and publish “Mother, did you call my name?” AMAKA: I have always been writing short-form poetry that I usually … Continue reading
Catherine Omirigbe is the author of the poetry collection, I Spoke with mother. In this interview with Su’eddie Vershima Agema, the fourteen year old SEVHAGE author talks a bit on her background as well as the book which is scheduled for release in the last week of September, 2013. Excerpts: Briefly, can you … 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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