Help My Pikin

An assistant professor of oral pathology, radiology, and medicine at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, United States (U.S.) and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the non-profit organization Health Trends, Azeez Butali, has developed a new application, Help My Pikin, that helps to lower the mortality rate of children aged five and under in Nigeria

Gbenga Adesina & Chekwube O. Danladi Win 2016 Brunel Poetry Prize

Two Nigerians, Gbenga Adesina and Chekwube O. Danladi have been announced joint winners of the 2016 Brunel University African Poetry Prize in partnership with Commonwealth Writers.

Gbenga Adesina, who lives in Nigeria, was an Open Society Foundation Resident Poet on Goree Island, off the coast of Senegal. His first chapbook, ‘Painter of Water, will be published by APBF in 2016. The judges described his poems as “powerfully political, beautiful and truly searing,” and as “a poet with compelling voice addressing concerns of injustice, memory, migration and family.”

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