The Tampered Workshop is a series of virtual creative writing workshops, designed to help Ghanaian and African writers harness their writing and become more capable and confident writers.

Poets are invited to submit their work for the poetry video competition. So: use your smartphone or work with a videographer to record your poetry and head over to Refugee Poetry for information on how to apply and submit.

it falls down, this rain which long echoed in heads slowly growing dark like clouds with remembered cruelties, of uniformed animals who grew horns riding our back and becomes the tumult of marchers flowing as flood down the battered roads of lagos, abuja, port harcourt, benin, jos

Most people are wearing cloth made masks they lower to their chins when they want to talk to you – there is something about the need to communicate with the lips visible, moving. Some are wearing matching Ankara and facemask prints, in a fashion statement that even Covid-19 cannot mask.

Chemist and poet Hussani Abdulrahim weighs in on the 2020 Brunel International African Poetry Prize Shortlist

Harry Garuba (1958-2020), internationally acclaimed Nigerian scholar, poet, journalist, editor, anthologist and theorist.

But stripped to bare bones, poetry is an art that dramatizes our every day life. It is in our laughter, our tears and the seemingly senseless babble of a child. In turning 'Rainbow' into a song, I'm simply telling the audience, this is the true colour of poetry.