The Guild: where Africa’s next storytellers find their people.
Abuja, Nigeria
Joined September 2025
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I'm honored to have been given a spotlight by @theACGuild. It was a fun conversation in which I elaborated with detail what it means to be a poet and what poetry means to me. Do have a read. And happy weekends!
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The Book of Memory - Petina Gappah
If you Keep Digging - Keletso Mopai
The Hairdresser of Harare - Tendai Hutchu
Kintu - Jennifa Nansubuga
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The Lazarus Effect - H. J. Golajai
One Day, I Will Write About This Place - Binyavanga Wainaina
TheAprilCentaurGuild retweeted
Read publicly. Read privately. Read long books. Read short stories. Read occasionally. Read constantly. Read quickly. Read slowly. Read romance. Read classics. Read nonfiction. Read to learn. Read for fun!
Read however, whatever and whenever you want! READ UNAPOLOGETICALLY!!!
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The people @theACGuild said “Jyro, we see your work in the theatre, come produce a Holiday play for us”. So I packed my bags because for your entertainment? I’m too active!😭
Go book your tickets jor! January 2&3,2026 Ibadan!!🥳
linktr.ee/SeaofSilence
TheAprilCentaurGuild retweeted
My heart is filled with gratitude. I'm so delighted to share that my eco-poem "All of It" has won the poem of the year of the Bridgette James Poetry Prize 2025. I am so grateful to @BeesPoems for this opportunity. My cheerleader @ClementIfeany07 thank you so much.
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read with hunger. with jealousy. with the itch to know how the master did it. writing isn’t just born from inspiration. it's’s born from craft. and craft is studied, borrowed, stolen, honed. one sentence at a time.
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“The channels through which we experience literature are ever-evolving because humanity wants to make reading even more of an experience.”
@ChimezieChika1 writes: How Should We Read? Akpata Magazine and the Reading Debate⬇️
afrocritik.com/how-should-we…
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Now more than ever, literature needs to be the light in this dark world, and show us a new way to think, beyond ethnocentrism and tribalism. Beyond religious bigotry.
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✍️ Muheez Olawale
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title: in a moment of weakness by st idah hamza.
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I was swept off my feet by reading Jennifer Makumbi’s books some years back, that I wrote this essay five years ago. Just reread it now and I think it’s worth sharing again.
“Jennifer Makumbi and the English Language.”
Read:
chukwuderaedozi.medium.com/j…
TheAprilCentaurGuild retweeted
A writer conceives a whole story in their head, transcribes it in isolation, then comes out of that cave with something for the world to see. What a profession
TheAprilCentaurGuild retweeted
The Fishermen is 10 years this year! 😊😊Thank you @TheBookerPrizes for making it their November 2025 Monthly spotlight.
I will post a thread soon on how I wrote the novel. In the meantime, please read: thebookerprizes.com/the-book…
TheAprilCentaurGuild retweeted
😊Friendly reminder that we are open for submissions till 10th of November
Don't be shy, send us those beautiful poems🫴🫴
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It's almost impossible to critically think as a creative in Nigeria, when your mind is swamped with thoughts of tomorrow, where your next meal would come from, trying to put a roof over your head or pay your rent. At some point, your curiosity would become mired with anxiety.