Poems
Where Is Our Government?
“We have a lot of insecurity in Nigeria. By road we are not safe. By train we are not safe”. (From a survivor of the Abuja-Kaduna Train bomb; Mon., March 28, 2022)
Barter
Barter Because it’s 1945 And the Allies put a war horse over a west African infantryman, A boy is traded for a horse.
Introducing the Olongo Talk Series
Our interest at Olongo Africa is to promote the interest of African creative works, artists, writers, curators, and producers of culture, and to collaborate in ways to enhance their vision as it intersects with issues of the moment across African countries today.
Lonely Night the Poet Sells Himself as Lover to Dream
Ernest O. Ògunyemi is a staff writer at Open Country Mag. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Tinderbox, Sierra Nevada Review, Journal Nine, The Indianapolis Review, Down River Road, Capsule Stories, No Tokens, The West Review, The Dark Magazine, Mud Season Review, Agbowó, Isele, and in the anthology 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry III. He is the curator of The Fire That Is Dreamed of: The Young African Poets.
Essex Street
That evening, the prophet singled me out & asked the church to fervently pray for me
Flat-lining and the Buzz
It is not difficult to understand why a volume of poems on the subject of suicide by an African poet can be a difficult thing. The subject is the last taboo, obdurate and stiff as death.
[POETRY] Brocade
How often we find rest in the place for longing, fame in the space of hiding, the truth in the face of the neonates.
Instead of Silence
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo is a Nigerian poet with works published in Button Poetry, Glass Poetry, and elsewhere.
Embodied is an Intertextual and Intersectional Masterpiece.
One of the most exciting and stimulating examples of cross-genre amplification...exhilarating.
