All Africa Poetry Symposium in Celebration of 100 Thousand Poets for Change 10-Year Anniversary

JERUSHA KANANU- Kenya

Smile Again Katrina Poem by Jerusha Kananu — **Kenyan Writer JERUSHA KANANU MARETE** , is the author of power-parked -package anthology of poems titled **Echoes of Military Souls** that promise to keep you at the edge of your seat. She has her heart in narrative poems. Her touch on the military theme in her anthology is splendid. She graduate from University Of Nairobi with a degree in Education (English &Literature) and currently a MA student at Kenyatta University (Literature/Theatre departments). Jerusha is a teacher, a performing artist & a film and theatre enthusiast .She is also a full time mother to Emmanuel. Her poems have been published in Best New African Poets 2019 anthology. Her work was also featured in the annual military magazine Reconnoiter,

Jerusha Kananu <jerushakananu@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/kananuh.jerusha

ADESINA AJALA- Nigeria

Adesina Ajala | THE WILD WORD — A sprouting physician and writer, Adesina Ajala, desires to grow roots in the loam of the pen and the stethoscope. He does not know how he would fare, but he believes in journeying, in chances, possibilities and the divine. His works have found home in *Writers Space Africa, EBOquills, Libretto, Featiler Rays, Brave Voices Poetry Journal* and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the 2018 League Of Wordsmiths contest in the flash fiction/short story category, and was the co-winner of the first place of 2018 TSWF Writers Prize.

Adesina Ajala <talktoadesina@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/adesina.ajala

MICHAEL MWANGI MACHARIA- KENYA

MICHAEL MWANGI MACHARIA, AFRICAN POET PATRIOT – TIME OF THE POET REPUBLIC

MICHAEL MWANGI MACHARIA is a prolific poet who was born and raised in Nakuru county of the expansive Rift Valley in Kenya.He is a graduate of Moi University .He was anthologized in Echoes Across the Valley and has published in online journals.He also contributes articles in Saturday Nation.He also has interest in photography, fine arts,music,drama and dance.He is associated with a private publisher and has edited a few manuscripts. He finds poetry a worthwhile and great pastime as well as form of expression.He feels the information technology revolution has been a great opportunity for poets to link up and create positive change in the world today.

michael macharia<machariamichael@yahoo.com>

https://web.facebook.com/michael.macharia1

NANCY NDEKE-Kenya

INSIDE # Candid Talk Studio with African Poetic Tigress Nancy Ndeke. – WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS — **Nancy Ndeke** is a multi-genre writer. She writes poetry, hybrid essays, reviews, commentary and memoir. Ndeke is widely published with four collection of her full writings *Soliama Legacy, Lola- Logue , Musical Poesy and May the Force be With you.* She has recently collaborated with a Scotland-based Writer and Musical Artist, Dr. Gameli Tordzro of Glasgow University on the Poetry Collection *Mazungumzo ya Shairi*, and also co-authored the poetry anthology , *I was lost but now am found* with USA Poet Renee Drummond -Brown . She contributes her writings to the Atunis Galaxy Poetry ( Belgium), TUJIPANGE AFRICA( Kenya, USA), Ramingo Porch, Africa Writers Caravan , WOMAWORD Literary Press, BeZine for Arts and Humanities( USA), Andinkra Links 5, Wild Fire Publication, Williwash Press, The poet by day webzine, Writers Escape at Poetry, Different Truths, ARCS PROSE POETRY. **Nancy Ndeke** also works as a literary arts consultant, copyeditor and Writers’ Clinics Moderator.

nancy ndeke<nandeke63@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/nancy.ndeke.14

TANAKA CHIDORA- Zimbabwe

TANAKA CHIDORA DISHES HARD TRUTH CONCOTED WITH POLITICAL PARADOX

Tanaka Chidora is a poet, literary critic and academic who teaches Creative Writing and Theories of Literature in the Department of English at the University of Zimbabwe. Some of his works appear in Zimbolicious (Volume 4), The Standard’s Gourd of Consciousness poetry corner (Zimbabwe), and Brave Voices Poetry Journal. Tanaka is currently working on two novels, the first an auto-fictional memoir of his childhood in Mbare, and the second a collection of a Chitungwiza commuter’s diaries. Read an interview with Tanaka Chidora here.

Tanaka Chidora<chidoratanaka@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/chidoratanaka

NYANDURI NYANDORO-Zimbabwe

Muzondo's new play premiers – NewsDay Zimbabwe — Nyanduri Nyandoro aka Tafadzwa Muzondo is the founder of the “Edzai Nesu” (Try Us) Theatre group in Highfield, a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe. Highfield is crowded and poor, with high levels of unemployment and drug use, particularly among the young. Muzondo wanted to clean up Highfield; he wanted to keep its young people off drugs and off the streets. So he conducted a campaign. He secured funds and workers to transform an old, dirty foot bridge near a shopping center into a beautiful art center. The center is now the site of meetings, forums, and other activities, many of them focused on helping young people get critical information about health and government.

Tafadzwa Muzondo<tafartist@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/tafadzwa.muzondo

TINOTENDA WILSON WAISON ,LOWLIFEDIARIST- Zimbabwe

TYNOE WILSON – a rising Zimbabwean poet, a Word Slinger and a rights Activist. An impetuous mastermind so zealous to out the muddling and crippling societal affair through stanza.A rising and defiant voice shaping the struggle for positive transformation and Peace.Waison Tinotenda Wilson is the author of Murder me He has published and created several poetry compilations and prose collections.

https://web.facebook.com/tynoe.wilson

Lowlifediarist Wilson Waison<waison263@gmail.com>

GORATA MIGHTY NTSWABI- Botswana

Buy online Exploring the ROOTS. Poetry My Heritage: Living the Arts at low price & get delivery worldwide | — **GORATA MIGHTY NTSHWABI**( August Edition Guest Editor).Botswana Poet and Gender Rights Activist Gorata Ntshwabi is the August Edition Guest Editor of the Brave Voices Poetry Journal.GORATA MIGHTY NTSHWABI is a result – oriented and self-driven, Artist Poet and Activist. A registered Poetess herein as Poko Boswa Poetry my Heritage specializing in both traditional Spoken Word and Page poetry. She has since authored an English poetry book “Exploring the Roots Poetry my Heritage, Living Arts and self-published in 2016 and the collection is transcribed into brail for the visually impaired.Gorata holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Sciences with majors in Sociology and Psychology from Central University of Technology Free State in South Africa and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in African Languages and Literature from the University of Botswana. Her Writing and Poetry Arts career was realized since years of her childhood .She participated in Schools Arts Activities.Gorata is a member of Maruping Poetry Organization, had an opportunity to mentor young upcoming artists Tlhale jwa Phala Entertainment Group.

https://web.facebook.com/gorata.ntshwabi

mightyntshwabi@gmail.com

OKO OWOICHO- Nigeria

Oko Owi Ocho is a writer and a performance poet. He was long listed for the 2017 Nigerian Student Poetry Prize, Top One Hundred Poems, NSSP 2018. A 2nd Prize Winner for the Korea Nigeria Poetry Prize 2018. He has been published in *Black Communion: Poems of 100 New African Poets*, ANA Review 2017, Tuck Magazine, Braided Way, Kalahari Review and African Writer. He is currently working on a book, Pan Africanism in the 21^st Century, and a poetry collection, *We Will Sing Water*. He is the Founder of AFRIKA-WRITES and a member of AJ House of Poetry.

oko owoicho<okoowiocho@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/owi.ocho

JAMBIYA KAI- South Africa

Jambiya Kai with her loaded Pen – WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS

JAMBIYA KAI is a cross-over soprano, speaker, published playwright/writer and mentor. Her writings and original songs are awash online through E-zine publications like The Tuck Magazine and Miombo Publishing, You Tube and Reverbnation. And in print through the Daydreamers Journal, Best New African Poets 2019 and Better Together Government Magazine.
Beulah Kleinveldt “holds the trophy” as the 2018 winner of the London based Good News Publishers “All round UK Poetry competion”. She has recorded a number of music albums. Two during her time with renowned international music ministry Vinesong – namely Peace Like a River and I Behold your Glory. Itinerant music minister with Vinesong throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and performed on stages like the Royal Albert Hall and at RCCG Congresses to millions in Lagos and Europe.

Beulah Kay <beulahkay@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/LadyBFK

MOURAD FASKA- Egypt

I am an aspiring Moroccan researcher_ with **a BA degree in English Studie**s, and I am currently doing a master degree in English literature_ and a poet with no publication records so far. Actually, I have never had any work published in any literary magazine, making yours the first magazine to attract my attention. my literary interests range across **Gothic literature, Magic Realism, Science Fiction and Fantasy, ancient mythology,** and peace-seeking literature, to name a few. I have produced several articles, book reviews, and an incomplete novella, yet unpublished. My current research paper is concerned with tradition and modernity in **Twentieth century fiction and how the past, i.e. literary past, is the key to making the modern world orderly, peaceful, and more tolerant.**

Mourad Faska <faskamourad96@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/long.mourad

**BRIGHT MADZIVA** is a Zimbabwean Poet, Writer and Music Educationist. Music and Writing allow him to express his thoughts and emotional experiences properly to the world. He is a recorded musician with eight single tracks to his name. He is a born musician and was later trained at Kwanongoma College of Music in Bulawayo. He majored in song writing, mbira playing and vocalist. Presently Madziva works with the Autism Organization of Zimbabwe in a bid to use his music and writing skills to provide the best therapy to autistic children. His main goal is to complement his voice and ink in advocating for the marginalized. He strongly believes that the Art of writing and the Art of song are the best tools to bring a positive change and peace to the world.

Bright Madziva<britmadziva@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/bright.madziva

LINGIWE PATIENCE GUMBO- Zimbabwe

gumbo90800000000000000 — Lingiwe Patience Gumbo was born on 25 October and grew up in Gweru. She is an Administrator and Secretary by profession and a church volunteer teacher/ advisor for adolescents. Gumbo is a singer-songwriter with an 8track album titled Worthy of all my praise (2017) and 2 singles (2018 Arise Beloved Zimbabwe – a song of hope & 2020 Grace). She is currently working on her second album titled Gratitude. Gumbo’s poems are featured in various online platforms like miombopublishing and girlchildcreativity. She was part of a group of poets who published their first anthology titled Don’t give up Africa in 2008 Some of her poems have been published in Wildfire Publications Monthly Magazine (August 2019). Gumbo self published her first poems anthology titled Words of Life (2019) and is currently working on a few books to be published as soon as possible. She is the host of a online TV show NY Television where she presents motivational messages on the Breakfast Nuggets, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Lingiwe is married to Gerald Gumbo. She spends most of her time with their two children in their home in Chitungwiza. She enjoys nature walks and spending time with friends. She is inspired by love, her faith in God and life experiences and hopes to encourage, motivate and soothe the soul with her work

Patience Gumbo<patiencedear@gmail.com>

https://web.facebook.com/patiencesife

THAMI PRESHAPOINT DITSI- South Africa

THAMAGA DITSI, SouthAfrican Wordsmith born made with traceable experience in the entertainment industry embraced his work as Poet, Rapper, motivational speaker,event management,community developer and radio presenter .Born in Monakato Town ship(Rustenburg) SouthAfrica.He developed his love of entertainment at tender age where he began as rapper and poet in 2007,He later registered his company Kasi koncept krew brand.

https://web.facebook.com/presha.point

MBIZO CHIRASHA- Zimbabwe

New UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist: Mbizo Chirasha | Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) — **Mbizo CHIRASHA,** the Author of *a Letter to the President*. co-Authored Whispering Woes of Ganges and Zambezi. Co-Edited *Street Voices Poetry* Collection (Germany Africa Poetry Anthology). Co- Editor of the *Corpses of Unity Anthology*. Associate Editor at *Diasporia(n)* online. Chief Editor at Time of the Poet Republic. Founding Editor at WomaWords Literary Press. Publisher at Brave Voices Poetry journal. Curator at Africa Writers Caravan. UNESCO-RILA Affiliate Artist at University of Glasgow. 2020 Poet in Residence *Fictional Café*. 2019 African Fellow, IHRAF.ORG. Project Curator and Co-Editor of the *Second Name of Earth is Peace* (Poetry Voices Against WAR Anthology). Contributing Essayist to *Monk Arts and Soul Magazine*. Poetry and writtings appear in FemAsia Magazine ,Wrath -Bearing Tree, Inksweat andtears journal , One Ghana One Magazine, Ofi Press, World Poetry Almanac, Demer Press , Atunis Galaxy poetry online , IHRAF Publishes , The Poet a Day , Bezine.Com , Sentinel UK, Oxford School of Poetry Pamphlet , Africa Crayons, PulpitMagazine,Poetry Pacific, Zimbolicious , Best New Poets ,Poetry Bulawayo , Gramnet webjournal, Diogen Plus , Poeisis.si , Festival de Poesia Medellin and elsewhere .

girlchildcreativity@gmail.com , https://web.facebook.com/mbizo.chirasha/

CAROLINE AKUI-Kenya

Kathuu — **CAROL AKUI** was born and bred in Kenya. She gets inspired by the world around her, putting into words observations, feelings and her thoughts and those of others who share their experiences and feelings of what is happening around them. Reading other poets also inspires her. She considers poetry and literature a mouth piece for the unheard and a tool for effecting necessary change where it is needed. Her poetry is a committed means to bring positive change. She is concerned about the downtrodden in society. She hopes her poetry can provide them with a voice and a platform to be heard. She also hopes that her poetry can connect people with their humanness and bring out the best in humanity.In her poetry, she is conscious of her African identity, values and culture and the need for positive advocacy. In order to flip the negative narrative of Africans and the African Continent. She is a wife and a mother of two boys.Carol is yet to be published for now. Her poetry appears on her Facebook and poetry groups such as Modern African Poetry. It can also be found in her blog www.thatafricangirl.home.blog and on twitter @Akui.

https://web.facebook.com/carol.akui.3

caroline akui<carolakui@yahoo.com>

SAMUELLAH CONTEH- Zimbabwe

**SAMUELLAH CONTEH** is a writer/poet from Sierra Leone, who uses her poetry to preach global peace, love and respect for human rights and dignities. Her poems and short stories have been featured in both national and international anthologies. Samuellah has received many accolades for her contribution to world literature, among them the Award of the Order Of Shakespeare (OOS).

https://web.facebook.com/samuella.conteh.980

BENEDIXIO MOORE KHOTI-Zambia

Benedixio Moore Khoti( Moses Khoti) is a writer, poet, spoken -word artist,songwriter and a storyteller hailing from the southern part of Africa, Zambia in Particular.He is a professional Engineer to whom writing is an inborn – passion that had at a tender age erupted into passionate flames that he now lives consumed in.To write, he draws his inspiration from the Universe and the beyond’s beyond beyond.His ink spillage is an effluent stream that floods with emphasis on preaching one Love for one mankind and strongly stands against all – manner of injustices. He is an executive member of the International African Writers Association (IAWA) and also a platinum – categorized member of the worlds largest and most active writer’s forum( Motivational Strips) where he holds position as a moderator representing the Zambia Office.He is also a guest contributor to the digital Poetry journal Brave Voices. His works of art have been featured in many anthologies and his writing consistency on themes pioneering peace and love and uplifting humanity has earned Him ambassadorship(Zambia) for Every Child Life – line which is a charity organization with headquarters in Nigeria.He is currently working on a Spoken – word album and his debut Novel.

https://web.facebook.com/mapalomo.kayz ,

AFRICAN POETRY SYMPOSIUM 100 TPC CURATORS

Zimbabwean Poet in Exile: Mbizo Chirasha | by Jamie Dedes | Medium

RESIDENT COORDINATOR –Mbizo CHIRASHA, the Author of a Letter to the President. co-Authored Whispering Woes of Ganges and Zambezi. Co-Edited Street Voices Poetry Collection (Germany Africa Poetry Anthology). Co- Editor of the Corpses of Unity Anthology. Associate Editor at Diasporia(n) online. Chief Editor at Time of the Poet Republic. Founding Editor at WomaWords Literary Press. Publisher at Brave Voices Poetry journal. Curator at Africa Writers Caravan. UNESCO-RILA Affiliate Artist at University of Glasgow. 2020 Poet in Residence Fictional Café. 2019 African Fellow, IHRAF.ORG. Project Curator and Co-Editor of the Second Name of Earth is Peace (Poetry Voices Against WAR Anthology). Contributing Essayist to Monk Arts and Soul Magazine. Poetry and writtings appear in FemAsia Magazine ,Wrath -Bearing Tree, Inksweat andtears journal , One Ghana One Magazine, Ofi Press, World Poetry Almanac, Demer Press , Atunis Galaxy poetry online , IHRAF Publishes , The Poet a Day , Bezine.Com , Sentinel UK, Oxford School of Poetry Pamphlet , Africa Crayons, PulpitMagazine,Poetry Pacific, Zimbolicious , Best New Poets ,Poetry Bulawayo , Gramnet webjournal, Diogen Plus , Poeisis.si , Festival de Poesia Medellin and elsewhere .

War Surrounds US, Michael Dickel | is a rose press

SYMPOSIUM CO-HOST -Michael (Dickel) Dekel has authored six published books and chapbooks (pamphlets) of poetry and short fiction, and published over 200 individually published poems, short stories, and non-fiction pieces, in addition to book-reviews and academic articles—under his birth name, Michael Dickel. Nothing Remembers, his most recent poetry collection, came out in 2019 from Finishing Line Press (https://tinyurl.com/y3684acu). For Fisher Features, Ltd, he wrote a successful NEH film-development grant and the script for a documentary film on Yiddish theatre. He works as a freelance editor for publishers and individual authors, co-edited Voices Israel Vol. 36 (2010), and served or continues to serve as an editor of one sort or another for several print and online literary periodicals. He has taught writing, literature, and English language in higher education in both the U.S. and Israel. Michael publishes an online blog-Zine (https://MichaelDickel.info/). He is the past chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English. He holds a Bachelor’s in psychology, a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry concentrations), and a Doctorate in English.

FOUNDER AND PRODUCER OF 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE

Michael Rothenberg | lapoetsociety — Michael Rothenberg is a poet, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine *BigBridge.org*, co-founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change (www.100tpc.org), and co-founder of Poets In Need, a non-profit 501(c), assisting poets in crisis. Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Rothenberg moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 and co-founded Shelldance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica, which is dedicated to the cultivation of orchids and bromeliads. While in Pacifica, he helped lead local environmental actions that stopped major coastal developments that would destroy wildlife habitat. He was co-founder of Pacificans for Mori Point, a grass-roots group that led the battle to stop development of endangered species habitat on Mori Point and Sweeney Ridge, which resulted in the eventual inclusion of these areas in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. He was also on the G.G.N.R.A. Steering Committee, the Board of Directors of the Pacific Land Trust and was founder of the Bromeliad Society International Conservation Committee. Michael has published 20 books of poetry including *Nightmare of The Violins, Favorite Songs, Man/Woman* (a collaboration with Joanne Kyger), *Unhurried Vision, Monk Daddy, The Paris Journals, Choose, My Youth As A Train, Murder (*Paper Press 2014), *Sapodilla* (Editions du Cygne-Swan World, Paris, France, 2016) and *Drawing The Shade* (Dos Madres Press, 2016). *Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story*, was published in 2013 by Ekstasis Editions (Victoria, B.C., Canada), and in 2014 by Shabda Press (USA). A Spanish/English edition of *Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story*, and the poetic journal collection, *Tally Ho and the Cowboy Dream/The Real and False Journals: Book 5* are scheduled for publication in 2017 by Varasek Ediciones (Madrid, Spain). .

TIME OF THE POET REPUBLIC-An Internet-based Writers’ Center, archiving theme-based Digital Poetry Anthologies and publishing Iconic Poets, Writers and Artists from around the globe. TIME OF POET REPUBLIC was founded by UNESCO-RILA Affliate ARTIST, Freedom of Speech Fellow PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, 2019 African Fellow ihraf.org and acclaimed Literary Arts Diplomat, Mbizo CHIRASHA.

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All Africa Poetry Symposium in Celebration of 100 Thousand Poets for Change 10-Year Anniversary

michael macharia<machariamichael@yahoo.com>

nancy ndeke<nandeke63@gmail.com>

Tanaka Chidora<chidoratanaka@gmail.com>

Tafadzwa Muzondo<tafartist@gmail.com>

Lowlifediarist Wilson Waison<waison263@gmail.com>

oko owoicho<okoowiocho@gmail.com>

Bright Madziva<britmadziva@gmail.com>

Patience Gumbo<patiencedear@gmail.com>

caroline akui<carolakui@yahoo.com>

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