The event takes place online, from 4pm till 5.30pm (UK time), on Thursday, 17 October 2024.
As part of the evening, poets featured in the Africa Migration Report: an Anthology of Poems; Volume 1 (CivicLeicester, forthcoming) will share poetry and reflections on the theme of African migration, the vision they have on the matter, and how we get to a future where freedom of movement is a right that extends to and includes Africans on the continent, in the diaspora, and on the move.
The readings and conversations will be followed by a Q&A with all present.
Attendance and participation are free and open to all.
REGISTRATION
To attend, please register here.
FEATURED POETS
Jo Blackwood is an engaging and establishing street poet, writer, actress, community actress (Derby Theatre); (more recently) a digital online movie reviewer and hosts The Soothing Session (Derby Sound Community Radio Online). She has participated in development programmes, commissions, with Renaissance One London and volunteering programmes within the East Midlands community.
Anayo Dioha is a lawyer and writer from the Igbo tribe of Nigeria. His poems lie on the online and print pages of The New Verse News, Queen's Quarterly, Password: Very Short Poetry and The Literary Cocktail Magazine. He's on course to complete a PhD in law.
Samuel Julius Habakkuk Kargbo was born in Wilberforce village, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and is a poet, preacher and songwriter. He has a BSc in Chemistry from Fourah Bay College, US and an MSc in Environmental Sciences (Hons) from Cyprus International University. He is currently researching Environmental Toxicology at Nagasaki University in Japan, and is the CEO and founder of Poem Makers SL, a poetry brand that motivates and mentors young brilliant minds in Sierra Leone and abroad.
Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, integrating climate change into both. Instagram/Threads/X @ILANKELMAN
Anton Krueger has published plays, memoir, short stories, criticism and arts journalism. Lately, he’s been experimenting with spoken word collaborations with improvising musicians, including Tony Bental, Warrick Sony, Francois le Roux and Paul Hanmer. He lives in Makhanda where he heads the Department of Literary Studies in English at Rhodes University. To sample his work, visit: https://amateurist.weebly.com/writings.html.
Octavia McBride-Ahebee's poetry is informed by the convergence of cultures and the many ways people move throughout the world. She presents relationships within the context of global inequality.
Remind Mugwambani is a young man born in 2001, in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe. He is the third of four children. His published works include "Today is Your Day, Go and Win," "Resilient Driver," and "I Will Be Home to Tell the Story," all of which were featured in the anthology "Wind on My Face: Motorcycle Diaries."
Francis Muzofa (aka@Pope) is Zimbabwean poet. His poems have been published by various Platforms both locally and internationally. He is a philosophical poet, who use humor, allegory and satire to poke into the eyes of those who cause harm. His writings are inspired by nature and the social ills that hurt the innocent and vulnerable. If he was God for a day, he would kill poverty and spread kindness.
J.O. Neill is a freelance writer, producer and funeral celebrant based in Bristol, UK. Born and raised till aged nine in Jamaica, her work is concerned with liminality, history, memory and belonging. She has also written, produced and directed two independent, crowdfunded films exploring her family's story. Find out more on her website - jessicaolivianeill.com - or follow her Instagram @jessolivianeill
Ejime Ijeoma Victory, born in Nigeria, is an multiple award winning essayist, poet, and humanitarian. In 2019, she was the first recipient of the Delta Short Fiction Award prize. Her work includes the novel, where the rivers go, which is due to be published in 2025; short stories, among them, "a song of ashes", and the poetry collection, a burning road. Ejime is also founder of the Anwumilli Foundation, and a book editor. She is currently studying at the College of Nursing Science in the city of Agbor, Nigeria.
NOTES
Organised by Forced Migration and The Arts in collaboration with CivicLeicester and Regularise, the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series draws inspiration from the 2nd Edition of the Africa Migration Report, jointly published by the African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in March 2024. Through poetry, the series explores multifaceted narratives surrounding African migration, capturing personal, familial, community, national and international histories and experiences of African migration. Because every day is Africa Day, our call for submissions is open 365 days a year.
Forced Migration and The Arts is an international network that brings together people with lived experience of forced migration, refugee and non-refugee artists, academics and art spaces for conversation looking at work taking place at the intersection where forced migration and the arts meet. Developed with support from the University of Manchester’s Humanities Global Scholars Fund, the network hosts monthly indabas or discussion forums on the last Thursday of each month and encourages mutual support and collaboration.
Regularise is a migrant-led collective founded in late 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The collective aims to address the years of sustained hardships that undocumented migrants experience in the UK and continues to organise and campaign for justice and for the rights of undocumented migrants.
CivicLeicester is a community publisher that uses print and digital technologies, social media platforms, the arts, and online and in-person events to highlight conversations of transnational interest and significance. Books we have edited and published include Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World (2023), Poetry and Settled Status for All: An Anthology (2022) and Bollocks to Brexit: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction (2019).
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