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Title of poem: A Hidden Message to Her Author: Bello Abdullahi The Podcaster, Bello Abdullahi has his bio in the members’ profile section.
“Fast forward to teenage hood, I loved poetry and began to scribble some words down and here I am.” Ayamba: Thanks for agreeing to speak to me. You are the creative director of ABUFEST, the only campus-based Arts festival in North of Nigeria. Can you talk to me about the day the idea for this...
The Whispering Trees is a collection of stories, each with a unique outlook. There is no single theme that the stories follow, but all have a certain flair for dramatics; a sort of entertaining characterization that brings the stories alive, there is passion and magic, places and people we can relate to. Twilight and Mist...
“Hajiya Binta Zubairu was finally born at fifty-two when a dark-lipped rogue with short, spiky hair, like a field of miniscule anthills, scaled her fence and landed, boots and all, in the puddle that was her heart." Season of Crimson Blossoms.
“She told me that I had softness in me. I should use it to my advantage.” Ayamba: I remember once in Kaduna, after a most electric, amazing literary evening at YELF, Muhammad Gulani (Creative Director, ABUFEST) showed me a clip on his phone. It was of you reciting a poem at the 2018 edition of...
“Writing chooses you, grows on you and then torments you when you do not indulge it” Ayamba: First of all, why did you choose writing? In a world where there is so much ache and injustice, so much suffering both internal and outward, you have taken up the difficult task of being the voice of...
“Don’t sell your world rights to anybody.” Binyavanga Wainana Ayamba: First of all, I like to prick people about their names. How did you arrive at the initials TJ? I initially thought it was one name until I realized the T stood for Tarfa Tj Benson: It’s Tijani lol. It’s Tarfa Jason for show. It...
“The careful mixing of history and fiction is intriguing and not something many are able to pull off without bias, but Richard Ali does a moderately good job of it.” In Richard Ali’s debut novel, City of Memories, love is given a prominent place as the cause of almost all the events that occur throughout...
