Author audio clips:
"Imagine a building, as big as a palace, with white pillars..."
Unoma Azuah reads an excerpt from her novel, Sky-High Flames.
Gabeba Baderoon
Gabeba Baderoon reads three poems from her latest book, A hundred silences.
"Old photographs":
A poem about love and history - a woman looks at the photograph of the man she loves, and sees his former loves reflected in it.
click to listen (mp3, 1.4MB)
"Give":
A poem about the friendship between two men. The central image is of them going fishing together, and standing at the edge of the sea.
click to listen (mp3, 3.5MB)
"Learning to love failure":
A contemplation of a photographer filming swallows, how one has to learn to love the failures of attempting to create one's art and, in that failure, one creates art.
Amatoritsero Ede
Ama reads his poem "Not In Love," in three parts
Not In Love, intro (mp3, 1.5MB)>>
Not In Love, part 1 (mp3, 3MB)>>
Not In Love, part 2 (mp3, 6.5MB)>>
Ogaga reads a piece entitled "A Waterscape," a prefatory poem to his book The Oil Lamp.
click to listen (mp3, 1.2MB)>>
Maik Nwosu reads an excerpt from his yet-to-be-published novel A Gecko's Farewell.
click to listen (mp3, 2.7MB)>>
Tolu Ogunlesi reads an excerpt from a forthcoming novel, tentatively titled Conquest and Conviviality.
click to listen (mp3, 3.5MB)>>
Nduka Otiono
Nduka Otiono reads "After the Noose".
click to listen (mp3, 8.5MB)>>
Nduka reads the call-and-response "Rivers Within".
click to listen (mp3, 8.5MB)>>
Remi Raji
Remi Raji reads three of his poems:
Love Song from a Wasteland (mp3, 2.4MB)>>
Experimental way of grappling with the contradictions that befall the collective spirit of a People.
Dream Talk (mp3, 3MB)>>
An imaginary love begins and ends in a dream. For accompaniment with music.
I Will Find You (mp3, 1.8MB)>>
Poem about love, and intimacy in its many forms. Composed in 2005.