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NOSAKHARE COLLINS is a Nigerian writer, poet, publisher, editor, literary critic, documentary photographer, entrepreneur, and web developer. A graduate of Accounting from Ambrose Alli University, Nosakhare has authored four books, A Pilgrim of Songs (2018), A Song of Endless Flames (2021), When Ravens Become Flowers (2023), A Mouthful of Rivers (2023), and the forthcoming Symphony of Existential Profundity. He is a fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency and the current content editor of Mexodus Magazine. As an accomplished writer of international repute, Nosakhare’s works have been featured both in print and online. His works have been translated to French, Italian, Spanish, Hindu, and numerous other languages. Winner of the Hiasfest Golden Award, 2024.

DHEE SYLVESTER is a recluse living in a part of Lagos only few Lagosians have heard about. He’s the author of From Man To God, the co-author of Two Shades Of Crazy, and has been a part of numerous literary anthologies. He was a columnist at SynCityNG and worked as a football writer at SoccerNationNG. His poetry and short stories have been published in print and online, and he wrote the screenplay for the short film, Camel Dancing.

UBAJI ISIAKA ABUBAKAR EAZY is a poet, short story writer, editor, and essayist. He has written myriad critical essays on literature and has most of them published on www.memorila.com. His poems have also found their way onto various literary platforms. His hobby is discussing the literary arts.

EZIAFAKAEGO BRENDA NWAFOR is a Nigerian writer and has authored two poetry collections, “Ode to a Dancing Pen” and “Eyes Wide Shut”. Her works have been featured in some anthologies including “Of Shadows and Rainbows: Musings in Times of COVID”. She is the immediate past Vice Chairman of The Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos Chapter. She loves traveling, editing and sewing.

BEN IGE was born and raised in Nigeria. He has well over thirty literary works to his credit. His works have appeared in various journals and anthologies around the world including ANA Review, African Writers, Deep Underground Poetry. He is the author of ‘Ben and Rose’, a children’s literature; ‘The Teacher’s Blood’, a satirical play; ‘We Shall Get There’ a collection of poems; ‘Beyond the Classroom’; prose, a recommended literature text for BECE in some states in Nigeria. Some of his books are: The Role Model, Wisdom is Gold, The Great Treasure, The Great Wisdom, and The Golden Opportunity. He currently lives in Ibadan where he is at work on a new novel.

JOHN CHIZOBA VINCENT (JC Vincent) is a Film Maker, Screenwriter,  Cinematographer and film Director. He’s From Nkporo, Abia state. Between 2017 and 2019 he was nominated by EGC magazine as one of the poets to watch out from Nigeria and in 2018, BN magazine Shortlisted him as one of their Top Ten Poets. He is five times Black Pride Magazine top ten Indie Film Makers to watch out from Nigeria and Two times Profiling-NG top ten Cinematographers making an impact among the youth with his Docu-Series: LIVES & PERSONALITIES. His Short Documentary about the Biafra war, co-directed By David Odaise was screened at the 2022 AFRIFF film Festival and His Short film: DISTRACTION  co- directed by Olams was Shortlisted and screened in a film festival in SAO PAULO, BRAZIL In 2021. He appeared  on Cultural Custodians Top Ten Indie Film makers of 2024. In 2023, he wrote and directed eight Episodes of Haunting Realities which were shown on his YouTube Page: The Philm Republic. Some of his films (Written and Directed) include: Resident 38, A Quiet Storm, Language Of Door, Beyond Dreams, Touch my Pain, Cold Thing,  Happiness Does Not Live Here. He has written a number of scripts for some directors among them are To Lost In Love, Pride and Seduction, Love In The Strangest Place, and others. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.

AJENIFUJA ADETOKUNBO is a Nigerian-born sculptor, painter and a writer. Adetokunbo draws his artistic inspiration from his cultural heritage and the world around him. His art often explores themes of identity, community, and the human experience. He has participated in several group exhibitions. He is a full-time studio Artist in IbejuLekki Lagos, Nigeria.

CHISOM OKAFOR, Nigerian poet and clinical nutritionist, lives in Alabama, where he is studying for an MFA in Creative Writing as a Graduate Council Fellow. He has received nominations for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, Gerald Kraak Prize, the CAAPP Book Prize and Pushcart Prize. He has also received support from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Commonwealth Foundation. His debut full-length poetry collection is set to be published in Fall 2025 (APBF and University of Nebraska Press). He tweets @chisomokafor16.

FRANCIS ANNAGU is a curatorial researcher, poet, and journalist. Past fellow of the Tiger Eye Foundation, 2022, and the Code for Africa 2021 Fellowship. His long-time documentary, Stone Brothers, was exhibited 2022 in the New Now Festival, virtually in Essen, Germany. His creative pieces can be found in London Grip New Poetry, Zeche Zollverein, Crannog Magazine, Galway Review, Ann Arbor Review, and elsewhere. He writes for the collective, the Curatorial Research LAB.

TENDAI. R. MWANAKA is a multi-disciplinary artist from Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. His Oeuvre of works touches on non-fictions, essays, poetry, plays, fictions, music, sound art, photography, drawings, paintings, video, collage, mixed media, inter-genres and inter-disciplines. His work has been published in over 300 journals, anthologies and magazines in over 27 countries. His works has been translated into Spanish, Serbian, Macedonian, Albanian, Bengali, Turkish, Hungarian, French and German.

JIDE BADMUS is an engineer, a poet inspired by beauty and destruction; he believes that things in ruins were once beautiful.Author of several books including Obaluaye (FlowerSong Press, 2022) and What Do I Call My Love for Your Body (Roaring Lion Newcastle, 2022).Badmus has curated/edited several anthologies. His poems have appeared in Agbowo, Maroko, Jalada Africa, Black Bough Poetry and elsewhere. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee.He is founder of INKspiredng, Poetry Editor for Con-scio Magazine, mentor in the SprinNG Fellowship, and member, board of advisors for Libretto Magazine.Jide writes from Lagos and tweets @bardmus

D.M. ADERIBIGBE is from the Ikorodu district of Lagos, Nigeria. His first book, How the End First Showed, was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the 2018 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in fall 2018. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The Poetry Review, jubilat, New American Writing, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from the James Merrill House, Banff, OMI International Arts Center, Ucross Foundation, Jentel Foundation, and Boston University where he received his MFA in creative writing as a BU fellow and also received a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. This fall he will begin a PhD at Florida State University, Tallahassee.