Professor Tanure Ojaide will be a guest at this month's reading hosted by the Lagos State Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors, holding today. His latest collection, Adult Love: In the Childhood Garden, published by Konya Shamsrumi, has been longlisted for the 2026 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature.
I would go on to discover that the opportunity to read poems in Morocco liberated the silenced voice within me: the empathic pain I had carried in my body, shaped by the violence of the world, by barbarity that tears away people's dignity and lives.
