With almost 400 poems submitted from different parts of the continent, KAPP Challenge has our largest number of entries yet for a competition on Teambooktu! We were overwhelmed by the sheer number but with the assistance of our able First Screening judges– Jayne Rone and Mature Tanko Okoduwa– as well as the Teambooktu Poetry Panel, we successfully went through all entries, assessed them, and ran them through necessary robust AI and plagiarism checks.
We have arrived at a Broad List of 90 of the best original poems. These will further undergo another round of screening to select a Long List of 40, to be announced on October 21st. This list will then be reviewed by our esteemed Pan African Panel of Judges to determine the Final Short List of 12 (to be announced on November 11th) and the winner of the Kayode Aderinokun Poetry Prize.
The Winner, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Runners-up will be announced on November 15th at the closing ceremony of LABAF (Lagos Book & Art Festival). Try to be there if you can make it, as the winning poem will also be recited! We will be there!
Congratulations to all Broad Listers! You cleared the first hurdle. There were so many great poems, it was difficult for our judging panel! For those who didn’t make it but submitted solid original content in line with our guidelines, keep on writing and stay hooked to Teambooktu for more challenges and great content!
- 911
- A father’s elegy.
- A poem is a witness in a disarrayed country.
- A soul’s voyage.
- A visit to my father’s identity.
- Abiye.
- Aboriginal drift.
- Aduni.
- Africana.
- After the night of the massacre, tollgate 2020.
- Anti.
- Ashes for beauty.
- Atlas.
- Before I knew too much.
- Beyond numbers.
- Bodies exiled.
- Born into the bridal script.
- Built on pattern.
- Caliban, after the sail.
- Charades.
- Collection number A F 1910,0513.1.
- Dancing in ancestral footsteps.
- Dear seeds of tomorrow.
- Dear universe.
- Dedications.
- Drift.
- Echoes of the past.
- Eden
- Forsaken by the custodians.
- Grass and grace.
- Hopes, gone.
- How can I say goodbye?
- How to forgive your father
- I didn’t break, I opened.
- I pledge, but to what.
- If a poet is.
- If the world becomes devoid of luminance.
- Igbo landing.
- I’ll die a poem.
- Inferior.
- Lone thread lost
- Mariposa.
- Maybe one day
- Memoirs from what never happened.
- Men of words and silence.
- Mo
- My pen is pregnant.
- Naked.
- Not all men who dance naked in the streets are mad men.
- Not today
- Not yet devoured.
- Once upon a dream.
- Ori’s appraisal
- Osun, my mother.
- Out of love for you.
- Peace, that tiny fraud in the dark.
- Refined.
- Reincarnation (Denial)
- Roots and wings.
- Seeds and harvest.
- She still smiles.
- Shed me a river.
- Shifting skins, steady spirit.
- Silence, my mirror.
- Six feet apart.
- Soro soke, but the voices stay silent.
- Suicide, not an option.
- Tattoos.
- The art of being broken.
- The body.
- The chicken yard.
- The giant’s predator.
- The muddled stages of grief.
- The ninth and the night
- The parable of Areku, King of the dancers.
- The smallest mark that decides our exile as a cartography of breath
- The stranger’s tranquility
- The threnody of a Nigerian
- The whistleblower.
- Then, there’s me.
- Thorns of wordbeats.
- Tremor
- Turn that mirror over.
- Unbroken.
- We have all lost our senses.
- We lost the drum, and God forgot our name.
- Where sound sleeps.
- After God Breathed
- Babel
- The Oil Well
Jayne Rone
Jayne writes poems but doesn’t consider herself a poet- yet. That's how critical she is of her work and how she respects the art form! She is the 2021 winner of the Tony Tokunbo Fernandez International Online Poetry Competition. She has a Bachelors in law from Igbinedion University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Derby. She rarely lawyers these days as she is currently dipping her toes in the world of finance. She resides in the UK with her husband and when she isn’t reading or writing in her favourite coffee shop, she spends most of her time traveling, cooking and finding the utmost pleasure in the simple things.
Mature Okoduwa
Mature Tanko Okoduwa is a Nigerian poet, playwright, artist, art historian, actor, activist and theoretical scientist. He is a former General Secretary, Association of Nigerian Authors, and a product of the ‘Nsukka School of Art,’ (Umu-Uli), University of Nigeria. He writes about identity, parting, oppression, friendship, relationship, sexuality, equality and loss. Mature Tanko also authored a book Photography for Schools and Colleges (2015) which is being used in schools in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. He has published a few collections of poetry including Island Of Self and Confessions.
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