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Words and Inspirations

  So we celebrated International women’s day over the weekend, sure you can only imagine all the activities that happened. A couple of weeks ago though, i decided to record a few of my poems in the form of a series of web videos titled Words and Inspirations. I just wanted to give some context […]

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Not for sale

So here is one of the poems off my spoken word audio project ‘Dirty Laundry‘. The poem is called Not for sale.  I tell everyone that i am super ’emosh’  so the poem happens to be an ode to someone i fell in love with and with whom i shared remarkable experiences. By the way […]

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From Page To Stage

For some reason I have always been a bit insecure about my poetry and fiction. Maybe it is because I wasn’t one of those people who read and wrote ferociously as a child. When I read about writers, I feel a bit like a fraud calling myself one as I’m still trying to play catch […]

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ON ART,MOTHERHOOD AND BIPOLAR DISORDER

By Wana Udobang The year was 2007 and I was a final year student inEnglandliving in a predominantly white town called Farnham when I discovered Bassey Ikpi . It occurred during one of my long night stretches of illegally downloading movies off the internet and watching hours of Russel Simmon’s Def Poetry Jam footage on […]