Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic and inaugural member of the Rose Choreographic School in Sadlers Wells East, London.

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

I’ve been part of different slam scenes for the past 20 years. I’ve seen a lot of bad slam poetry. I’ve performed a lot of ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

But in Postcolonial Love Poem, the brutality committed in the name of our nation’s founding has not healed. Diaz, an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, refracts our country’s ...

Dacia Petrie, a UI and web designer, has developed an innovative app, Black Nile, to simplify the process of shopping from Black-owned businesses. As Afro Tech reports, Black Nile currently ...

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

NAIROBI, March 20 (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as Upper Nile state governor, according to a decree read on state media. The move appears to breach a peace deal under ...

Residents and fishermen in Njeru Municipality, Buikwe District, have raised alarm over the continuous discharge of untreated industrial waste into the River Nile, a practice they claim is severely ...