Year: 2022
Iyanu Adebiyi creates poetry as a tool for personal and interpersonal healing
As opposed to finding poetry, Nigerian poet and spoken word artist Iyanu Adebiyi would argue that poetry found her. Poetry…
Martins Deep reads Tell Grief on The Poetry Experience Podcast
Martins Deep is a poet and photographer/artist. His works have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Lolwe, FIYAH, Rough Cut Press,…
Creativity is a lifestyle for multi-disciplinary artist Bertha Onyekachi
For Bertha Onyekachi, creativity is a lifestyle. She has always been very crafty and artsy. As a kid, her dad…
Martins Deep finds purpose in confessional poetry and visual arts
While the majority of boys his age were mindlessly flying paper kites and choosing ‘sets’ for their street football team,…
How Abena Appiah switched from biomedical science to photography
It's not always easy to choose the appropriate path in life. Abena Appiah, a London native, has always been fascinated…
Genius Grant winning artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby expresses cultural collision in her works
The paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a Los Angeles-based artist, are simple at first glance, featuring home and commonplace situations…
Yen Yen Yen: you’ll enjoy this old Guiness advert made by film-maker Kibwe Tavares
With the support of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and Nexus Productions, film director Kibwe Tavares developed an advert for Guinness to coincide with…
Throwback to when Andrew Esiebo documented West African barbershops in photos
Barber culture is something of a phenomena in West Africa. Andrew Esiebo, whose images focus on social and cultural transformations…
Ikeorah Chisom Chi-Fada uses his paintings to honor and “revere” his fellow Nigerians
Ikeorah Chisom Chi-Fada sets his characters in "an atmosphere that respects them" and "a space that reveres them in and…
