streetspokenword 2.0

Are you a spokenword poet?
Then let's get creative

Send in a 15seconds
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Video of your spoken word
With the Hashtag
#Greatpathcommunity

Winners will be decided based on 50% likes
And 50% panel decision. The most creative video win.

Let's go!

Dreams from slum

Do you have passion for education?
Would you like to make a difference in the life of an African child?
Then apply to be a volunteer with  Dream from slum initiative. So you can make a difference in the life of a child from where you are.

ROWE FEBRUARY EDITION WITH PRESTIGE

 February edition of rocking on with Edaoto will happen live at freedom park Lagos.  4th Feb., 2016. Featuring 'The truthman' Prestige Ifeanyi.

Spokenword poetry and live music at its peak!

NIGERIAN STUDENTS POETRY PRIZE

Nigerian Students Poetry Prize

An initiative of 

Poets in Nigeria (PIN)

Supported by 

Association of faculty of Art students, University of Ibadan

PRIZES

First prize: 100,000.00

Second prize: 50,000.00

Third prize: 30,000.00

Submission guidelines 

*Only undergraduate students of Nigerian tertiary institutions are eligible to enter for the contest.

*There are no fixed theme for the contest. Participants are allowed to freely explore themes relevant to contemporary times.

*All entrant are entitled to a single entry of limitless word count.

*Submission should be accompanied by biography, comprising full name, level, department and Faculty. 

*Name of tertiary institution should also be distinctively mentioned alongside contact details (email address and phone number)

*All submissions should be forwarded to nspp2016@gmail.com

*Submission deadline: 15th March 2016.

All entrants should subscribe to

www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng

What if? A poem by Osigwe Benjamin

WHAT IF?

What if I left

In the middle of a sucking night

And leave no foot prints

To be retraced?

Will my crafted pictures

Still be in your heart?

What If doors after doors

Are shut at my face

And at every turn

A hand waves (farewell)

Will I be that same man

You promised a part of your heart?

What If I got lost

In the battle field

Of forgotten memories

Where men embrace the unseen

And their souls are kissed by flying bullets

Will you wish to own me back again?

What if am an illusion

But, well illustrated in your mind

Will you wish

To be forever drowned in illusion?

Or what if

I bake you sweet words

From the depth of an insane mind

Will you wish for more words of mine?

But what if the world decides

To feast on my skull

Will you freely will me to them?

And what if these questions

Are all rhetorics?

Will you want them answered

So you can be forever planted

In my heart?

Osigwe Benjamin

2016

  

Osigwe Benjamin is one of the youngest Poetry Promoters in Nigeria. He is a written and performance poet. He was featured in the 16th
LAGOS BOOK AND ART FESTIVAL "LABAF" 2014, GreatPath media concert, Freedom Spoke Words, Be Blessed, and Fist (Feast) Of Words, and many other notable poetry events in Nigeria.

Some of his poems were featured
in BLACK COMMUNION POETRY ANTHOLOGY, and he was also on the EGC TOP 50Poets who rocked Nigeria in 2015.

Benjamin is the manager of "The Poetry Court" (thepoetrycourt.blogspot.com).
An online community of writers. A platform to support and promote written, spoken and performance poetry across the world.

Benjamin is also a poet who believes in poetry
for consciousness and social change, and thus advocate that poetry should move, speak and take actions through the pen.

#Antsrace vs #Humanrace

The much anticipated #Antsrace video is out.

What are the qualities found among Ants
That among human are quite scant?

Do you know the unique traits, traced to the small #Antsrace that makes the #Humanrace a very big disgrace?

Find out in this powerful #spokenwordvideo by Poethick samurai
Watch and share  https://youtu.be/cKaY4iUK7uc

Olayinka Samson Aremu popularly known as Poethick samurai  is an outstanding spokenwordpoet in Nigeria. He was nominated as the number(7) poet who rocked Nigeria in 2015 (Egc Top50 contemporary poets who rocked Nigeria 2015). He has been proffered numerous awards, such as the "Pillar Of F.O.S (Figures of Speech) 2015." "Most Outstanding Achiever Of The Year" (F.O.S Awards) 2015.

Samurai was a 1st runner-up at The Abuja Literary Poetry Slam 2015 and a 2nd runner-up at The Eko Poetry Slam, 2015. He was also the 1st runner-up at (War Of Word4) 2014.

ANTS RACE (Spokenwordpoem)

COMING SOON…

A New Video on EGC TV
Title: ANTS RACE
Artist: SAMURAI
Featuring: LIAMZ
Director: Enigmatic Olumide
Post production: EGC Studios
Genre: Spoken Words Poetry
Duration: 4min 37sec
Production: Dec 2015
Date of Release: January 12, 2016

You can subscribe before the video release, follow the link below, the video will hit your e-mail soon as it gets released:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY0opNAnehHFWrpTnk0-AyA

                                                 Poethick Samurai