Tares Oburumu is a poet, essayist, and playwright whose work explores history, identity, religion, migration, and the effects of colonialism on the African experience. He won the 2022 Sillerman Prize for African Poetry for his book Origins of the Syma Species. He is also a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a recipient of the GAP...
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Ogaga Ifowodo
Ogaga Ifowodo is a lawyer, poet, writer, activist, and columnist. He is the author of six poetry collections, including Homeland and Other Poems, which won the 1993 ANA Poetry Prize; Madiba, winner of the 2003 ANA/Cadbury Poetry Prize; and The Oil Lamp, winner of the 2005 ANA/Gabriel Okara Poetry Prize. His collections A Good Mourning...
James Ngwu Eze
James Ngwu Eze is a poet, journalist, cultural organiser, and communications strategist. His debut poetry collection, dis-possessed, won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Poetry Prize in 2020 and was longlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2022. As a solo artist, he released two extended plays, Open Secret and Exhale, exploring themes of...
Oyin Olugbile
Oyin Olugbile is a Nigerian-born author and cultural storyteller whose work boldly reimagines African myths, matriarchal power, and spiritual memory.
Nikki May
Born in Bristol and raised in Lagos (Corona School, Queens College, University of Lagos), Nikki May is Anglo-Nigerian and loves both her homes fiercely.
Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two previous novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, were both finalists for the Booker Prize.
Oyin Olugbile
Oyin Olugbile is a Nigerian-born author and cultural storyteller whose work boldly reimagines African myths, matriarchal power, and spiritual memory.
Professsor Meihong Wang
Professor Wang leads Process and Energy Systems Engineering Research Group at University of Sheffield (since 2016), UK with expertise in modelling, optimization and control for power plants, carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), energy storage and bio-energy.






