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📣 Calling all children's book writers & illustrators! 📣 Brittle Paper is now accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, illustrations, and more for our inaugural children's anthology! Guidelines here 👇 🗓️ Deadline| June 9, 2025 brittlepaper.com/2025/05/submit…

"For me, visual storytelling isn’t just about aesthetics. It is about emotion, legacy, and truth." "STORYTELLING IS RESISTANCE"-HICKMATU LEIGH ON THE POWER OF VISUAL STORYTELLING poda-poda.com/interviews/sto…

2/3: "In Sierra Leone, topics like FGM are often surrounded by silence and shame. But I know firsthand how powerful visual storytelling can be, and I knew this was a story that needed to be told. " HICKMATU LEIGH ON THE POWER OF VISUAL STORYTELLING poda-poda.com/interviews/sto…

3/3: "When I wrote Fighting Giants, I wanted us to have a bit more accountability in how we treat one another and where our integrity lies." OLUWASEUN BABALOLA ON BLACK IDENTITY AND THE POWER OF FILM. poda-poda.com/interviews/olu…

Celebrating 40 Years of Freetong Players and the Vision of Charlie Haffner Today, Freetong Players International (FPI), marks its 40th anniversary. Founded in 1985 by the visionary playwright and cultural icon Charlie Haffner, FPI has spent four decades weaving #SierraLeone’s

🎉 The Caine Prize marks 25 years of championing African literature with the Best of Caine Award – a one-time honour to crown the best short story from all past winners (2000–2024). 📖 Read more: caineprize.com/press-releases #BestOfCaine #25YearsOfCaine #AfricanLiterature

"My creative process is deeply spiritual. It could be sparked by a conversation, a sound, or even a single image. But once the spark comes, I sit with it. I reflect. I pray. I ask myself: What truth are we trying to honor here?" poda-poda.com/interviews/sto…

"I have always been an avid reader but writing my own books has forced me to widen the scope of my reading as works in progress often require considerable research." poda-poda.com/interviews/yem…

"So seeing where we are at the moment- an incredibly bankrupt society-I just felt that perhaps I should go ahead and write this memoir and reflect on a period of glory. It was not perfect, but it was better." Syl Cheney-Coker on Writing through Exile poda-poda.com/interviews/im-…

"It's not just about creating a safe space for creativity but also about formalising it. There's tremendous potential in the creative sector." Isatu Harrison on Building Creative Spaces in Sierra Leone poda-poda.com/interviews/isa…

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87 bbc.in/4kgVU3C

Read new poem titled, ‘Roots’ by Lansana Sesay here: poda-poda.com/poetry/roots #readsalone #sierraleoneanpoetry

"You don’t always see their might— they toil in silence, out of sight. But when the sprout breaks through the soil, you’ll see the proof of all that toil." ROOTS by Lansana Sesay poda-poda.com/poetry/roots

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