Tag: poetry
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Announcing our 2026 LOATAD Black Atlantic residents
We are delighted to announce the recipients of our third and final LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency, supported by Hawthornden Foundation. Nine exceptional writers and thinkers from Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, the USA, and the UK will be in residence at LOATAD in Accra, Ghana, in 2026 to work individually and in…
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Announcing the 2025 LOATAD Black Atlantic Residents!
We are thrilled to announce the 10 writers from across Africa and the Diaspora who have been selected for the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2025: African Solidarities supported by Hawthornden Foundation: First row, left to right: Roger Robinson, a globally recognised writer and performer, boasts an impressive array of accolades, including the T.S. Eliot Prize…
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Ghana and Nigeria Join Forces for Poetry Showcase at LOATAD
Join us on Saturday, 7 October at LOATAD at 3pm for an exciting afternoon of poetry and conversation at the Poet to Poet event, hosted by LOATAD as part of the Here and Now Writers Residency. This event will feature six writers from Ghana and Nigeria: They will share their insights on the craft and…
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“On Doing Undoing”: A Workshop and Screening with Dr Barby Asante at LOATAD, 29 July at 1pm
Dr Barby Asante, Artist-in-Residence at LOATAD, will lead a workshop that will invite participants into the ways in which she uses writing as a collective and conversational practice in developing her film and performance works. She will also be screening her recent films The Queen and the Black-Eyed Squint- Glasgow, The Arrival, The Tour and…
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Estella Apenuvor for Odo Nnyew Fie Kwan
Kaya – noun. meaning – load, luggage, burden. language – Hausa (Ghana) When we are bored, we count mother’s ribs and argue about who got it right. I always win. My cracked heels sing lullabies. I never fall asleep. These homeless truck pushers give us 10 cedis after they rape us. When we get to…
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Jonathan Tetteh Kwao for in a Twistocratic Republic
the wheel will also be safe in the hands of an astrologer: he’ll pray the galaxy on our sixth presidential podium- & tell us our fate. my friend wept a “Haircut” he did not give his head for/ would’ve espied this before his Titanic sank the iceberg. he sure will tell us myriad ill monkeys…
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Kwame Brenya for Gye Nyame
What the judges said Gye Nyame makes use of all the nuances one can eke out of the apparently simple, very much in the way that proverbs work, covering environmental abuses, a complicit government and the social struggles of a religion-muted people, in less than a minute. Meet the Poet Kwame Brenya is a Ghanaian…
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Ananse Ntentan by Akotowaa (Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023 Runner-Up)
One day, the trickster will tire of being a cautionary tale. He will drop his disguises and wear his face so well that villagers see it and quail. Woe unto those who rewrote the lore to declare conformity king. Cleverness is not punished by its offspring, and the trickster tires of being called a sin. …
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Aya: She Defies Difficulties by Beah Batakou-Meynisse (Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023 Runner-Up)
dust motes dance in the stream of sunlight seeping through the narrow openings beyond the wooden planks, exposed wiring, and mice. here is heaven scattering; we harvested water from these crevices. before petrichor would filter down the dingy openings, A’maa would be there, cradling her basin and my bowl. drip drop tick tock water falls…
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Announcing the finalists for the inaugural Adinkra Poetry Prize
Congratulations to the talented finalists of the inaugural Adinkra Poetry Prize! Your words have moved us and left us in awe. Keep shining and inspiring others with your powerful poetry. Look out for the announcement of winners and runner-ups next week!
Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora 