“What Does the Poem Say About Nigeria?” A Conversation with the Three Finalists for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature 2026: Ogaga Ifowodo, James Ngwu Eze, and Tares Oburumu
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“What Does the Poem Say About Nigeria?” A Conversation with the Three Finalists for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature 2026: Ogaga Ifowodo, James Ngwu Eze, and Tares Oburumu

Sep 9, 2026

What can poetry hold when a country is carrying too much history? For Ogaga Ifowodo, James Ngwu Eze and Tares Oburumu, poetry becomes a way of looking closely at Nigeria: at the violence that has become ordinary, the histories that remain unresolved, and the private disappointments that are often in

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