Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Aisha K. Mohammed

It’s usually something that flows easily from me. I don't write poetry the way you'd expect, on a writing table with a cup of with coffee by the side. I could be on a cramped bus...

It’s usually something that flows easily from me. I don't write poetry the way you'd expect, on a writing table with a cup of with coffee by the side. I could be on a cramped bus...

Aisha is a law student in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, her home by day and a poet and writer always. She is the 2019 winner of the Andrew Nok poetry prize and has been published in Syncity.ng and in the Creative Writers Club’s anthology “my name is sorrow” themed on sexual violence. She is a youth activist who hopes to use her law degree to fight for women and children’s freedoms. She spends her timez when not buried under Law textbooks and handoutsz enjoying food, poetry, Egyptian mythology and stroking cats.

Richard Ali
Richard Ali is a Nigerian writer whose poems were first published in 2008. He has served in the National EXCO of the Association of Nigerian Authors and sits on the board of Uganda’s Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation. A member of the Jalada Writers Cooperative based in Nairobi, his work has been published in African Writing, Jalada, Saraba Magazine and elsewhere. The Anguish and Vigilance of Things is his debut collection, was published in 2020. He practices Law in Abuja, Nigeria.