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Shock-prise as younger poets rule shortlist of $100.000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

Akeem Lasisi The shortlist of the Nigeria Prize for Literature is out

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Nigeria Prize for Literature: Nominees discuss where poetry fits as shortlist emerges on Friday

Akeem Lasisi Most of the 11 poets on the longlist of the

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Hi! Test your grammar power!

GRAMMAR TEST 1. The higher you go, the … it becomes. (a)

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Something is Really Happening: Love poems in Akeem Lasisi’s ADA, ADA

Something is Really Happening Something is really happening When a bluebird begins

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Your blessing I seek before I move into my husband’s house

Òkóńkòkó, daughter of destiny, I lured the moon to Osogbo Dressed in

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Ìyá mi, ìyá mi (Ekun Iyawo)

Òkóńkòkó ni mí o Tí mo kósùpá r’Òṣogbo Tí mo w’ẹ̀wù oyè

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KAKAWA: A poem in celebration of iconic Nigeria’s newspapers arena in Lagos

KAKAWA By Akeem Lasisi To inform is to empower To be informed

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Opebi! (For Lagos @ 55)

OPEBI By Akeem Lasisi Your fame smells sweet Your name rings a

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A SONG FOR LAGOS (For Lagos at 55), by Akeem Lasisi

A Song for Lagos -Akeem Lasisi I have been with Lagos since

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LONDON PEN, a poem by Akeem Lasisi

LONDON PEN (For Ugonnaya) When you offered me the London pen You

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