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Hello everyone,

Alongside one of my lecturers , Dr. Toyin Shittu , I have a new paper on Necropolitical Reading of Selected Poems from prof Gbemisola Adeoti 's Stoning the Wind and baba Odia Ofeimun's The Poet Lied.

It's featured in the new issue of Vol. 5 (2015): AWIYE JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES (AJOLLCS), page 157.

Many thanks to Dr for his support in making sure this comes to fruition.

Link to download & read
ujws.uniosun.edu.ng/ajllcs

I also have three translated works in The New Anthology of Young African and African American Poetry, published by Olongo Africa. Edited by Abdukareem Abdul Kareem and Prosper Ifeanyi .

Many thanks to the editors for this amazing project.

Download and read press release here:
olongoafrica.com/press-relea... by @kayodeayobamii

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2 months ago

In our latest publication, review editor @kayodeayobamii critically reads Unbound, an anthology of Nigerian poets under 40, edited by Chibueze Darlington Anuonye & Nduka Otiono (@narrativelscape, 2025).

Káyọ̀dé traces Nigerian digital poetry from private utterance to public inheritance while questioning its generational boundaries. “The anthology’s four-part structure, moving from Reflection through Confession and Writing the Nation to Performance Poetry, quietly enacts the same argument,” Káyọ̀dé notes. “It is a movement from private interior utterance toward embodied, public voice, mirroring the poets’ own passage from timeline to page.”

Visit the link in bio to read the full review.

#unbound #nigerianpoetry #poetryanthology #bookreview #poetrycommunity by @kayodeayobamii

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A news

longlisted for the Arole Agarawu African Poetry Prize. A tough list here. Best wishes to everyone on this amazing list.

https://www.aroleagarawufoundation.com/about-prize/longlist by @kayodeayobamii

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Some old works and moments...

Cus

I left Instagram in 2020.
5 years later, I returned! by @kayodeayobamii

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We're thrilled to INVITE the general writer-readers community to a special BOOK CONVERSATION with our authors.

It's a moment to discuss their books & ask questions

Moderator: Ayobami Kayode

🗓️ Aug 08
🕛 11:00am–01:00pm
📍 Google Meet
🎟️ Link: https://meet.google.com/iqo-vpii-hby

Cheers 🥂 by @kayodeayobamii

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3 months ago

happy to share this poem recently published in @porterhousereview (Texas State university)

the poem has been accepted for almost two years now. given up on its publication for a long time. but here we are.

Thanks to Otikor Nemi!

read here:

https://porterhousereview.org/?articles=soja by @kayodeayobamii

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5 months ago

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6 months ago

This is the shortest of all the poems I've ever written. And it's written after W.S Merwin. Many thanks to Grey Sparrow for including it in their 47th issue.

https://grey-sparrow-press.com/january-issue-47-elegy-ayobami-kayode/ by @kayodeayobamii

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9 months ago

In this conversation between @kayodeayobamii and @michael_imossan, they discuss Imossan’s APBF chapbook “The Smell of Absence,” writing communities, and the possible outcomes of embracing writing as self-expression.

“The most difficult thing to do as a writer is to strip oneself naked before the world, to lay bare one’s fears, origin, desires and aches,” Imossan reflects but goes on to say that it is in confronting the self does he “examine where the wound bleeds to put a balm on it — thus arriving at healing, empathy and beauty.”

Read the full conversation here: https://bookoclock.medium.com/interrogating-the-smell-of-absence-with-michael-imossan-557c0b01fd32 (link in bio)

#kuminamoja #michaelimossan #africanpoetry #interview #thesmellofabsence by @kayodeayobamii

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For our first post this year, we are excited to share the recently published conversation between @kayodeayobamii and Leana Debra Ranko. They discuss Leano's chapbook, Little Bird Say Your Prayers—a collection she describes as “a lament and a ledger — of absence, hunger, violence, and reckoning” — her writing journey, the literary scene in southern Africa, African poetry as a whole, and the weight of representation.

“This [writing], what we are doing, can never be undone“, she says, inviting fellow African writers to carry honesty in the stories they tell of themselves and of their places.

This conversation is part of the Book O’Clock x APBF interview series featuring dialogues with the ten poets in the 2025 #KumiNaMoja chapbook boxset. Check out previous conversations on @booko_clock.

Read this here: https://bookoclock.medium.com/little-bird-say-your-prayers-a-conversation-with-leano-debra-ranko-5ea86fac926b (link in bio).

#apbf #literaryjournalism #bookoclock #africanpoetry by @kayodeayobamii

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9 months ago

Nigerian poets @kayodeayobamii x @panini_500bc discuss artistic visibility, grief (its language and intersections), and Abdulkareem’s Loss Is A Door in this instalment of the Book O’Clock x African Poetry Book Fund interview series.

“Grief is a damned thing; it’s like a wound from a claw that never leaves the lushness of the mind. The pain pulls you back each time,” Abdulkhareem reflects.

Read the whole conversation here: https://bookoclock.medium.com/walking-through-loss-as-a-door-with-abdulkareem-abdulkareem-1ba9e72494be. (link in bio)

#africanpoetry #literaryjournalism #abdulkahreemabdulkahreem #poetrycommunity #bookoclock by @kayodeayobamii

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10 months ago

In this instalment of the Book O’Clock x @africanpoetrybookfund interview series, Nigerian poets @timixsanni and @kayodeayobamii discuss rejection, African poetry and Sanni's debut chapbook, The Ordinary Affair Of Being Human.

“Modern African poetry, currently, is strongly represented by Nigeria, and there is a need for a wider representation that captures the full spectrum of African cultures, histories, and social realities”, Sanni argues.

Read the full conversation here: https://bookoclock.medium.com/poking-the-ordinary-affair-of-being-human-a-conversation-with-timi-sanni-bc6600029315 (link in bio).

#africanpoetry #literaryjournalism #timisanni #poetrycommunity #bookoclock by @kayodeayobamii

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