Spikin’s Letter

Ta'ala ina rokonka ranar da zan cika Kasa in cika Allah cikin daki na Gaban duk iyali na da 'ya'ya da 'yan'uwa Allah ina rokon ka sai a gidana Idan na cika yan'uwa na gaya muku Da kun ji cikawata ku taru gidana Idan har da rana abin yazo ko cikin dare Batun jinkiri kar […]

Richard Ali

Richard Ali is a Nigerian lawyer, novelist and poet. A founding member of the Nairobi-based writers’ collective, Jalada Africa, he helped work on the Translations 01 project which saw a short story by Ngugi wa Thiongo translated into 100+ languages. He has spoken publicly about Arabic as a language bridge between the middle east and […]

Alhaji Mudi Sipikin

Alhaji Mudi Sipikin was a poet and a founding member of the progressive independent party, Northern Elements Peoples Union (NEPU) in 1950. Popularly known as Mudi Sipikin, he got the surname from the habit, when he was a clerk to the NEPU progressives party, of answering phonecalls with ‘This is Mudi sipikin’. His poem will […]