ArtisansQuill

A literary platform for writing artisans and artisan-writers. Where craft meets defiance.

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On Beginnings — A Note from the Founder ✍️

Some silences aren’t peaceful. Some aren’t resigned either. I’ve seen many silenced artisans fight against it all. The price of writing is steep. The price of not writing is steep. Between them, there’s only one path to relief. #Writing

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#AfricanPoetry
#NigerianPoetry
#YorubaPoetry
#Ibadan
#ContemporaryPoetry
#LiteraryTwitter
#PoetsOfAfrica
#PoetryCommunity
#LanguageAndPlace
#TranslationMatters
#ỌmọNaija
#StreetPoetry

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In the hands of Káyọ̀dé Ayọ̀bámi, the ordinary becomes unforgettable.

He writes of ponmo-water in crowded cabs, bicep-flexing mites in chicken coops, & hypnotic queues at buka spots—with unflinching imagery and wide-open senses.
#Poetry #AfricanPoetry #Ibadan

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✨Read his work here:
🔗 https://t.co/I54d3zahtl

And return to your own world with sharpened senses.

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This is not just a story of leaving. It is a story of carrying grief, memory, legacy, and self.

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#JapaChronicles #ArtisansQuill #MigrationMemoirs #NigerianWriters

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New on ArtisansQuill 🔹
“Prague, Before It Happened” — A Japa Memoir by Ndubuisi Aniemeka

What does it mean to want out and hold on? To love a country that chokes and still dare to hope?
#LeavingNigeria #NdubuisiAniemeka #EssaysOfDeparture #JapaDiaries #AfricanMemoir

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From Ibusa to Prague, through failed applications, lost loved ones, and bureaucratic obstacles, Ndubuisi invites us into a story of longing and becoming. A story of Nigeria’s brain drain, but also of the bright, resilient minds who survive it.

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Dig into the breath-prints of the ancestors and invoke memories to create something new and undying.
Submit to: [email protected]
#submissions #artisansquill #oralliterature #poetofinstagram

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ArtisansQuill Call for Submissions:
Send us your new words in old bottles. Let us have Ijapa in Canada. Pitch us your new spins on folktales, fables, riddles, folklores. Serenade a beautiful woman. Create oriki. Create incantatory verses. Dirges. Elegies. Hunters’ songs.

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Sit with these words.
Let them stir what they must.

🪶 Read more at: https://t.co/SGrM60TuaB

#poetry #ArtisansQuill #Heartwork #AfricanPoetry

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“I know this path like the story beneath my name,
I know it much like the pulse within my body—
a dance with destiny in a shapeless room full of men.”
🖋️ — Daniel Aôndona, “Archaeology of the Heart”
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In “Archaeology of the Heart,” Daniel Aôndona quietly reckons with love, loss, and the soft futility of pride.

Each line feels like a whispered confession from the ruins we carry within.

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Today, we are on Nigerian magicians. First on the list, as visited by Abdulbasit Yusuff, are the space shifters;load benders; lord of bus parks; first of their names.

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There's a woman with a huge mattress, hard to say if it's King or Queens size but no royal would complain on it....”
#creativenonfiction #humour #humor #artisansquill
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