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Chinwe Azubuike is a contemporary African Poet. She is regarded as a strong female contemporary voice from Africa, born in Lagos-Nigeria. Her origins are from Imo State and she is the first born of a family of five children. Her late father, Wisdom Azubuike served in the Biafran War and was married to Mary Azubuike, her mother.Her humble beginnings were a far cry from the literary educated class of poets- born into a relatively poor family. Over the past decade she has gradually crafted her own powerful voice and found a unique style of no-nonsense writing that comes directly from her heart. Recently she has participated in various writing groups throughout East London.Her literary development began whilst attending secondary school. She constantly viewed herself as a spokeswoman for Nigeria's deprived underclass and recognised within herself a strong sense of social justice. This is reflected in her poetry, as her work highlights the complicated issues and beauty of the people of Africa, especially the plight of women and children. The bulk of her work focus' on female issues; of love, life and torture with specific references to ethnic family traditions within West Africa.Her meteoric rise in African literary circles came about when she was invited to give a talk on female circumcision for the BBC World Service in 2004. Following on from that success she gave various readings at the Poetry Society in Betterton Place, London. She has spoken candidly on various radio stations in the Capital and her work has been published in various online publications and offline magazines in London and throughout the world.Presently, she is running a campaign worldwide for women, against the victimization and deprivation of human rights of "the Widow" in Nigeria. This issue is extremely personal to her as it is borne out of her own bitter experience when her father sadly passed away. She has written extensively on the subject with essays and poetry and intend to create a documentary in Nigeria about "Death of a Husband".

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Here are a selection of African writers that have contributed an enormous amount to International literature and deserve to have a subject dedicated just to them....Steps need to be taken to encourage African Literature to be regarded as a manditory subject throughout schools in the UK for pupils studying GCSE and above. We must make this a reality for the benefit of all children throughout Britain by 2010...

My Blog

Song dedication to the Living Ancestors

An exciting collaboration of Be's moving lyrics about his ancestry, and Zimbabwean mbira player, Dingiswayo Juma singing "Living Ancestors"- portraits done by Gabrielle Le Roux (Artist and Feminist Ac...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:52:00 GMT

Living Ancestors: Portraits tributes to the world's Caribbean Centenarian Women

After a few months of hearing about her and her amazing work of art, Gabrielle Le Roux is a woman I finally met over a few drinks of ice tea and orange juice in London on a bright sunny sunday in June...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:18:00 GMT

Fighting for the children of our world..

7 Seconds- Youssou N'Dour featuring Neneh Cherry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cPQbNNPkn4"7 Seconds" is about the first positive 7 seconds in the life of a child just born not knowing about the pro...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:44:00 GMT

Invading Our Privacy...

Invading Our Privacy: The dilemma of Female Circumcision in West Africa Artist, Suzanne Ouedraogo f...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:42:00 GMT

Have a wonderful New Year!!!

For Life alone, we know that God is merciful and wonderful to allow us witness the sky light a smile on our faces once again. For this, may we discard our worries and savour the joy of a new ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:48:00 GMT

NO DIFFERENCE

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Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:07:00 GMT

Happy New Year to you all...

New Year, Same Dawn At the stroke of midnight the shouts of jubilation reach a crescendo Glasses clink, lips cheer, hands clap mortals rejoice to bear witness to the onset of another sequence ...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:37:00 GMT

Poetry | Our Dilemma

Our Dilemma You, our gods of immortals and living Of seas and lands Of all visible and not we beseech, hear our cry this day and come to our rescue. Our sacred weapons of pleasure are b...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:16:00 GMT

An opportunity to say NO!!!

16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence. Today kicks off the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. A reminder to people that gender issues are Human Rights issues. According to the United N...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:50:00 GMT

Poetry | Prisoner of Conscience

Prisoner of Conscience Bursting to break loose from the shackles of the imprisoned conscience To unleash the rebel within the subconscious A woman, A child of the ghetto A rebel A...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:07:00 GMT