The second leg of the 2025 version of the All African Ladies Poetry (AAWP) Pageant can be held in Accra, Ghana, from twenty second to twenty fourth Could, 2025.
For this 12 months’s pageant, the organisers opted for occasions in Nairobi, Kenya, in January and in Accra, Ghana in Could. The Nairobi leg celebrated award-winning Kenyan poet, playwright, and performing artist Sitawa Namwalie, who is thought for her distinctive dramatized poetry performances, which mix poetry and classical Kenyan musical traditions.
The Accra leg of the pageant will rejoice Ghanaian diplomat, poet, and scholar Ambassador Prof Abena Busia whose life bridges continents and causes. As Ghana’s Ambassador to Brazil (2017–2024), she served 11 nations throughout South America. A Professor Emerita of English and Ladies’s & Gender Research at Rutgers College, she co-founded the Centre for African Research and lent her voice to international gender advocacy. Her poetry, first revealed by Chinua Achebe, appeared in lots of anthologies, levels, and festivals throughout Africa, Europe, and the Americas—testimonies of exile, traces of life, woven in verse. She has acquired fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Ford Foundations, and honors for public service. A dedicated philanthropist, she served on the boards of the African Ladies’s Improvement Fund and AWDF-USA. Together with her sister, Akosua Busia, she co-founded the Busia Basis Worldwide, rooted within the legacy of their mom, Naa Morkor Busia, nurturing voices, tales, and futures throughout generations.
Nancy Bosmans, Kuuks, Scar Poetry, Sitawa Namwalie, Grace Storm, Zanemvula, and Jesmeyza will even characteristic from host nation Ghana in addition to Kenya, South Africa, and the Netherlands.
The All African Ladies’s Poetry Pageant goals to rejoice African literature and literary legends, empower African girls and ladies of African descent, educate the youth, and interact with marginalised communities by sustainable occasions, programming, and tasks. The pageant invitations literary fans from all components of the world to have interaction with and promote genuine African tales by poetry and folklore, providing an modern cultural platform to find new concepts.
This 12 months’s theme displays on the lack of folks, tradition, and id highlighting the ache of shedding family members, the erosion of traditions, and the silencing of native languages that has left many unable to talk their mom tongue. It additionally expands the dialog to deal with the lack of biodiversity and environmental degradation, linking cultural preservation with local weather justice.
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