Tag: Adeeko Ibukun
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The Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation 2016 poetry prizes
The Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation has announced a call-out for its prizes for 2016. In previous years, the foundation had the Babishai Poetry Award which has been running since 2009. Previous winners of the prize include Adeeko Ibukun (2015), Tom Jalio (2014), Rashida Namulondo (2013), Susan Piwang (2012), Sanyu Kisaka (2011), Sophie Alal Brenda (2010)…
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Babishai Niwe poetry mentorship program for May 2016
We all know the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation which ensures that poetry gets its space at the literature table on the African continent. They have been doing this with first a poetry prize as well as a festival at their Kampala, Uganda base. Now the team at Babishai Niwe is set to launch their pilot…
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Adeeko Ibukun wins the Babishai Niwe Poetry Award 2015
The Babishai Niwe Poetry Award for 2015 where an African poet goes home with $1000 went to Adeeko Ibukun for his poem “A Room With A Drowning Book.” The poetry award which was the highlight of the Babishai Poetry Festival was handed out by the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors Prof Remi Raji…