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Widely regarded as one of Nigeria's leading performance poets, Efe has been a headline performer at many of the nation's premier performance poetry venues. He is the director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival, director of poetry at the annual Lagos Book and Art Festival, and coordinator of spoken word poetry at the Open Door Series' International Cultural Exchange and the Lagos Black Heritage Festival. Efe Paul is the producer of Nigeria鈥檚 first spoken word poetry theatre production, Finding 蜜芽传媒, and has performed at Johannesburg Arts Alive Festival, Ake Book and Arts Festival, Lagos Book and Arts Festival, Lights Camera Africa Film Festival, and聽聽amongst others. He is an Osiwa Poetry Residency Fellow.聽, published by Farafina Books, is his first collection.

Titilope Sonuga is an award winning poet, writer & performer based in Lagos, Nigeria. She is the author of two poetry collections, Down To Earth (2011) and Abscess (2014), and a spoken word album, Mother Tongue (2013). She performed at the first spoken word showcase at the Chinua Achebe Colloquium on Africa at Brown University alongside world renowned poets and was selected from over 200 poets to meet the iconic American poet and activist, Maya Angelou. Titilope performed a stirring inauguration poem at the swearing-in of President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2015; a historic moment for the country and the first time a poet had ever been invited to perform at a Nigerian presidential inauguration ceremony. She is currently the ambassador for the Intel庐 She Will Connect initiative in Nigeria; a program that aims to close the online gender gap by empowering and training women and girls across the world. Her undeniably visceral and compelling style of poetry and her work as a performer and facilitator on the local and global stage makes her one of Nigeria's leading performance poets.

Dike Chukwumerije has a Law degree from the University of Abuja and a Masters degree from SOAS, University of London. He is a member of the Abuja Literary Society (ALS), a vibrant Abuja-based literary group that holds meetings every week, and the winner of the 2013 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Prose Fiction for his novel, Urichindere. An award-winning performance poet, he has won several slam competitions in Nigeria, including the ALS Grand Slam and the maiden edition of The African Poet (Nigeria) National Slam Competition. He鈥檚 an active blogger and posts his performance poetry online.

Photo shows Wana Udogang with poets Titilope Sonuga and Efe Paul Azino (c) 蜜芽传媒聽