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May 15th, 2025
A Date in the Rainforest
by Joseph C. Ogbonna
(Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria)
May 15th, 2025
Africa Poetry Contest #4 – First Place
You Told Me
by Justice Joseph Prah
(Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana)
January 15th, 2025
Childhood Africa
by Joseph C. Ogbonna
(Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria)
January 15th, 2025
Africa Poetry Contest #3 – First Place
Queen
by Thato Mokgofa
(Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa)
September 15th, 2024
Africa Poetry Contest #2 – First Place
All Has Gone
by Laylaa Oliver
(Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa)
September 15th, 2024
The Fingerprints of the Unwanted
by Uyanda Mziyako
(Meyerton, Gauteng, South Africa)
May 15th, 2024
Waiting for Harvest
by Blessing Oziama
(Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria)
May 15th, 2024
Africa Poetry Contest #1 – First Place
Don't Remind Me
by Nixon Mateulah
(Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa)
January 15th, 2024
Poetry World Cup 2025 – Finalist for Cameroon
Power Out
by Sarah Namondo
(Mount Cameroon, Buea, Cameroon)
September 1st, 2023
Lamentations
by Faith Wanjiru Gathoni Wanjau
(Kenya)
May 1st, 2023
Ode on Reimagining Eden
by Michael Achile Umameh
(Nigeria)
May 1st, 2023
The City that Never Sleeps
by Amara Nwuneli
(Nigeria)
May 1st, 2023
Fela Kuti
by Uche Chidozie Okorie
(Nigeria)
May 1st, 2023
Footprints
by Tajudeen Muadh Akanbi
(Nigeria)
May 1st, 2023
Mother's Body
by Chukwuma-Eke Pacella
(Nigeria)
May 1st, 2023
Dry Season
by Nkoyo O. Nsa
(Nigeria)
January 1st, 2023
Under the Baobab Tree
by Ladi Mabela
(South Africa)
January 1st, 2023
The Song of the Evening Harvest
by Sola Ajibogere
(Nigeria)
September 1st, 2022
i am SHE
by Senetisiwe Ginindza
(Eswatini)
September 1st, 2022
She Survived
by Elizabeth Anna Hanai
(Tanzania)
May 1st, 2022
A Farmer's Song
by Ritah Tumushabe
(Uganda)
January 1st, 2022
Holacurtine
by Rachel Chitofu
(Zimbabwe)
September 1st, 2021
Nostalgia
by Chigozirim Miracle Nwaosu
(Nigeria)
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