PROFILE
PROFILE
Over 3+ years of Experience in Curating conscious African stories through poetry, performance art, film, docu-poetry, and experimental art forms, as a medium to promote historical and cultural literacy.
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SELECTED PERFORMANCES
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024 - AMCE African Health Forum (Organized by AFRIMEX Bank and King’s College United Kingdom)
2023 - Open Society Foundations' Global Convening for the Restitution of African Heritage, Accra Ghana.
2023 - Guest at the Live Literature festival (Živa književnost) in Ljubljana, Slovenia (organised in cooperation between ŠKUC, Center for Slovenian Literature and Literature Across Frontiers)
2023 - The Gathering Africa
2023 – 33rd Annual African American Celebration through Poetry (Virtual)
2023 - Ouida Open Mic Lagos
2022- Commissioning of the African Quality Assurance Centre
2022 & 2023 - Lagos International Poetry Festival
2022 - Oceanside Theatre San Diego in the USA (Virtual)
2022 - Industry Night Lagos
2022 – Morelife Concert Port Harcourt.
2019 - Green Economy and Environmental Summit at the Nigerian Climate Innovation Centre.
FILM FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
2023 - ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival
2022 - Make Art Not Fear (Award winner)
2022 - Poetry film Selection at One Earth Awards in India
2022 - Poetry film Selection at Festival del Cinema di Cefalù, Italy
2022 - Poetry film Selection at Panama series festival
2022 - Poetry film Selection at Zimbabwe film festival
2022- Poetry film Selection at Silicon Valley African Film Festival in San Jose California,
2022- Poetry film Selection at Vancouver Black Independent Film Festival.
2022 - Poetry film Selection at Zebra Poetry Festival in Germany.
2022 - Poetry film Selection at African International Film Festival, Lagos Nigeria.
HONOURS & AWARDS
2023 - Emmys' International young creative award (Finalist)
2023 - The Kudo Eresia-Eke Performance Poetry Prize (Winner)
2023 - Poetry Archive Now! Wordview (Winner)
2023 - African Podcast and Voice Award Spoken Word Artist of the Year (Nominee)
2023 - Poem nominated by the Elyssar Press for the Pushcart Prize 2022
2022 - BLACK PRIDE MAGAZINE
(Ranked First among the Top 5 spoken word poets in Nigeria)
2022 - LACASERA NATIONAL POETRY SLAM (Winner)
2022 - Afro street festival Poetry Contest (Winner)
2022 - GO-NIGERIA Q1 POETRY CHALLENGE (1st Runner-up )
2021 EKONKE AFRICAN STORYTELLERS PRIZE (Winner)
2016 NIGERIAN STUDENTS’ POETRY PRIZE (Top 10 entrants)
ACTIVISM/ADVOCACY
in 2023, Participated in the SOUND OF UNITY DIGITAL CAMPAIGN advocating against electoral violence In collaboration with the Canadian High Commission, Truemyvoice literary community and Change.org
Project Manager for the Poetry Infused National Agency for the Great Green Wall's Documentary aimed at inspiring youth participation in combating climate change, land degradation, and deforestation in Nigeria. (WATCH HERE)
As a community manager for Truemyvoice, we empowered young storytellers to create poetry content and Vox pop on the importance of tree planting in tackling desertification and to do so in their local language (WATCH HERE)
Facilitator at the 2022 edition of Slum Party, an initiative using Dance and Performance Art to question people's perception of Slums In Lagos and Nigeria.
Volunteer at the 2022 SpeakupStandOutNG (SUSO) program initiative which sought to use art as a medium for voter sensitization
Partnered with Humanity Nigeria in their attempt to break The Guinness World Record in September 2020 (by Removing 5 million plastic bottles, the largest Number of Plastic waste ever Collected from 36 states across Nigeria) by amplifying their message using spoken word poetry (WATCH HERE)
COLLECTION/ PUBLICATION
2022- Black Rootedness
(collection of poems from the West Oakland - West Africa Poetry Exchange) Purchase Here
2017 – The Sun will rise again
(Top 100 poems from the Nigerian Student Poetry Prize 2016)
BRANDS/AGENCIES/BODIES I HAVE WORKED WITH
Open Society Foundations
(Performed with Ennovated Dance Company in the 2023 edition of the Open Society Foundations' Global Convening for the Restitution of African Heritage, Accra Ghana.)
Goethe-Institut Nigeria
(2023 - Drumming New Worlds Collective/Exhibition)
Canadian High Commission in Nigeria
(Sound of Unity digital campaign and audio-visual compendium, against electoral violence)
Change.org
(Sound of Unity digital campaign and audio-visual compendium, against electoral violence.)
National Agency for the Great Green Wall
(project manager, poetry-infused documentary advocating against deforestation in northern frontline states in Nigeria.)
CIA – Lagos (Cultural Intellectual Association)
(participant in the West-Oakland to West-Africa poetry exchange)
Streeze Afrika
(2023 - Alkebulan Storytelling Workshop, Accra, Ghana)
Muyiwa Babayomi
(Owba Coocoo, Are we mad or can you hear the music?)
Alhanislam Media
(Content writing/directing)
Orange Poetry
(Poetry production to mark the 2023 Africa Day celebration)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION/COMMUNITY
OBSIDIAN FOUNDATION POETRY RETREAT (UK)
(Alumnus)
TRUEMYVOICE LITERARY COMMUNITY
(Community Manager)
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