Othuke Umokoro, a 31-year-old Nigeria-based poet and playwright, has won the 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. 

This is an annual poetry prize aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. 

The Prize is sponsored by Brunel University London and is open to African poets worldwide who have not yet published a full poetry collection. 

Award-winning British-Jamaican poet, Karen McCarthy Woolf, who chaired this year's Prize, describes Othuke as "A complex poet with the skills to match the weight of the subjects he takes on, whether it's sexuality and the family dynamic, HIV, or nature, ecology and politics.

Channel Africa's Zikhona Miso spoke to Umokoro…

Othuke Umokoro, a 31-year-old Nigeria-based poet and playwright, has won the 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. This is an annual poetry prize aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. The Prize is sponsored by Brunel University London and is open to African poets worldwide who have not yet published a full poetry collection. Award-winning British-Jamaican poet, Karen McCarthy Woolf, who chaired this year's Prize, describes Othuke as "A complex poet with the skills to match the weight of the subjects he takes on, whether it's sexuality and the family dynamic, HIV, or nature, ecology and politics. Channel Africa's Zikhona Miso spoke to Umokoro…

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