“Amu-Nnadi’s achievement is monumental: intimate yet epic, lyrical yet thunderous, local yet universal. Eucalyptus insists on full immersion into its rhythms, names, rivers, and fires. Poetry here is inhabited, performed, lived - a torrent reshaping everything it touches.”
Join us on the 5th and 6th of June 2026 for two Twitter Spaces with the amazing @IkennaOkeh, @ayodeforge, @akazahrab, and @adedayoagarau as we discuss their works and
1) Nigerian Traditions in Diasporic Writing
2) Literary Longevity: Preserving books and Literary Communities
The Brilliant Professor Chigozie Obiọma (@JCObioma) will be joining us in Enugwu for a literary evening on Saturday, the 20th June 2026. Please stay tuned for more announcements!
How much do you know about the foundations our stories are built on and the pillars which hold these walls?
Join the conversations at the fourth edition of #UmuofiaArtsAndBooksFestival, from 9th - 11th July, 2026.
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Umuofia Arts and Books Festival 4.0. 🙏🏽🛖
Come and experience the wonders of a devoted literary community.
Join us discuss the different ways our stories have evolved, been dissected, critiqued, the storytelling methods we have acquired and how they are received and archived. 🛖
You heard the man. 🤷🏽♀️
Tickets to #UmuofiaArtsAndBooksFestival26 are on sale.
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Thank you to everyone who applied. If you have been interviewed, you will receive a final decision email and if you haven't, the team responsible will reach out before the end of next week. 🚀
Do not let anyone (not even yourself) talk you out of attending #UmuofiaArtsAndBooksFestival26. Those three days will be the most transformative five years of your life. 🍃
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#TheArchitectureOfOurStories
“If any critique exists it lies only in the poem's rarefied brilliance; it does not seek accessibility, it seeks immortality. It speaks in a language that demands the reader rise to meet it. And having met it to fly with it as though words become wings and wings become eternal.”