Naijaland griot Fubaraibi Anari Benstowe your poetry tastes like PalmWine.

 Nigeria is the land of abundance.  Apart from Kola nut and the legendary palm wine. Nigeria is gifted of riddles, proverbs, dialects, poetry, talents, people, song and dance. Nigeria is a world in one, Nigeria the land of plenty. The Iconic Chinua Achebe was born and bred in Naijaland. Internationally acclaimed African griot Soyinka was breast fed and raised in this land of plenty. If you throw a pebble into the main streets of Naijaland, you either hit poet, a lyricist, an artist, a filmmaker, a writer or at most a professor if not a griot. Today our poetic sling hit on the one hardworking, creatively modified, excellent fast rising poet, FUBARAIBI ANARI BENSTOWE-( Blurb by  Mbizo CHIRASHA)

Chitungwiza Poet Waison reVolutionizes Poetry of Defiance.

TINOTENDA WILSON WAISON is an internationally renowned Zimbabwean Poet. The rising Poet is determined, resilient and bold. Peoples Poet popularly famed as    LowlifeDiarist or simply Tynoe Wilson  is an  underground Pen-Slinger and a  brave guerrilla poet  chronicling peripheral gutter lifestyles in his  ramshackle  dormitory township of Chitungwiza  some few miles from the  penury shrunken  ,frail shadow and cartels gripped  Sunshine City  .The poet vividly capture , images of  wretchedness, sighs of hopelessness  ,  ragged ,rat hovel -living conditions as  lived  by his hunger beaten ghetto community sustaining  their bellies with one scanty meal a day, maybe  a crust of stale of bread and a gulp of   chlorine- deficient tap water, enduring years of water woes and typhoid bouts.  His poetry mirrors of a country   haunted by political decadence, drained by economic diarrhea, a people groaning under leadership discord and a society suffocating under the heavy stink of moral rot.  TINOTENDA WAISON is a well-traveled poet, international published, a fast-rising editor and literary arts projects Curator. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN presents to you beloved readers, a bold wordsmith, a guerrilla poet and a fast-rising Social Justice griot, TINOTENDA WILSON WAISON- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).

Amanda Ranganawa is Our Zimbabwean Pen Princess.

AMANDA RANGANAWA is a highly spirited wordsmith and a rising poet in Zimbabwe. AMANDA carries with her the power of the voice and her talent- laced blood stream flow the wealth of artistry and her DNA is WORDS carved and glued into her bone and marrow during her sacred nine-month revolution in those holy terrains before her earth day. The higher power blessed the resilient bookaholic, mesmerizing workaholic and prolific wordsmith with the golden gift of resilience, goal getting and boldness. Her poetic vibe is not short of African pride, tragedies of life and confessional versifications. Her poetry renditions are mind blowing dramatic monologues, the reader is wowed as he or she imbibes the diligently concocted poetry beverage. The poet speaks to her inner self, speaks to crude and serene human within self. Her poem MY PAST IS OVER is somewhat confessional though thoroughly didactic, as she slings her pen with to teach, to counsel and to rebuke self and her contemporaries. A stream of consciousness. And again, the poem, MY PAST IS OVER is an intriguing historical reference in both presentation and meaning. It is a symbol of transfiguration, if not a ray of repentance. It is a biblical allusion. Remember the biblical story of Saul later Paul on his way to Damascus. CAPTIVATING. The Pen Princess winds up her page poetry performance by celebrating Joys of womanhood, life and African beauty. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN found her poesy fit to be profiled, featured and archived on their digital thicket for the benefit of Zimbabwean, African and global audience. Welcome African Pen Princess, AMANDA RANGANAWA to the CARAVAN of Versifiers, Wordsmith and Pens lingers- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).

Poetic Maestro RaVen Duchess fuses Kalimba Vibe with sweet eardrum rousing Urban Pop.

RAVEN DUCHESS  fuses  Kalimba vibe with a deep African cultural  Karanga hymn  , sweet ear drum rousing    urban pop and , a blood warming Afro Jazz beat.   In her rhythmic filled  and harmonica  laced Wakauya  Wega Mudzimu Wababa ,  paying    a befitting  tribute to her ancestry and rebukes male on corrupting and forcibly dominate  everything  spiritually. She reminds her conscious famished  audience that the  gift  of  spirituality  is serene and pure , hence cannot  be savaged  by barbaric  and corrupt habits  . The Poet , African culturist  and Afro-Jazz pays homage to her original roots  and her renditions are laced with passion , emotion  and African beat. The use of  Karanga Shona lyrics brings  the vibrant  songstress and her audience  to find each inside this vibrant  musical trance.  Raven songs  are plaques of  our identity as the songstress cum culturalist  reconnect with her departed kindred elders through heart thumbing Kalimba, blood raving urban pop , soul caressing Afro- jazz and wind  throttling percussion.  And we dance to stitches of this revered ,harmonized traditional anthem. Duchess  reminds the African to  be content with their African cultural dignity  . Her moral lesson is genuine , that spiritual talents are feminine as much as their masculine  . The Poet  and Jazzist  in  Raven Duchess  seeks to reverse  tragedies  hatched by modernity as her Kalimba vibe arouse bones and spirits to rise and heal the land yoked by  the bondage of  savagery  .Her scintillating  cultural renditions  takes Zimbabweans  and other Africans back to the sacred centuries  of legendary Chaminuka , mighty Gumboreshumba,  powerful Munhumutapa and  Nehoreka, Iron spirited Nyanda ,Tovela, Murenga and the raining making Njelele , revolutionary Tangwena and Chingaira, the land of Madzimbabwe.Raven Duchess is a renowned Afro Jazz singer , well travelled Poet vocalist  and has  done collaborative projects with musicians and artist  in Zimbabwe , Kenya , East Europe and United States. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN is excited to feature  Iconic Artist , renowned Singer , mesmerizing Jazzist and rising  Poet Raven  RAVEN DUCHESS -( Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).  

Chronicler Beatrice Othieno -Ahere mastered the Art of Confessional Poetry.

 The heart of a woman is like an ocean, it bears within its age and weather-beaten caves secrets, deep love, fruits of promise, wars won and lost, past freedoms and current liberties. It carries within scars of revolutions young and old. It sags with canopies of hope, forests dangling with untold stories and later as sister comrade leader speak, they volumes. Chronicler, rising Poet, girl child advocate, peace activist and an Africanized Princess BEATRICE OTHIENO -AHERE pens thought provoking poetic reflections on her social media and other spaces. Iam a living testimony of her wisdom laced simplified verses., I was creatively seduced by her mind cranking reflections and you all know WISDOM is mental seductive and INTELLIGENCE is sexy. AHEREs writings touch on the pains, the freedoms, scars and the love of the inner person. CONSCIOUSNESS. OTHIENO-AHERE   is a master- writer of confessional poetry, her words are carved from the inner caves of her creative soul and sometimes her verses shred us the into a weeping trance or sometimes into laughing- alone frenzy.  Besides writing poetry, AHERE socializes constructively with other women and girls on social media, the poet, chronicler cum socialite    carries the yoke over her shoulders to empower young women and girls cultivating their talents and teaching them life skills. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN brings to you the African Princess, Writer, Chronicler and budding Poet, BEATRICE OTHIENO- AHERE-( Editorial recitation by Mbizo CHIRASHA).

Bones of Okot p’ Bitek has risen through Kenyan Poet Biko Iruti

Biko, your poetry cranks my mind back to the mesmerizing art of legendary African griots.  Your prosaic but star-studded storytelling artistry laced in your traditionalist African poesy reminds the keen reader of the iconic Okot of the Song of Lawino, literary combatant Taban of Cows of Shambati, the illustrious Wole of the Lion and the Jewel and many other greats to come out of WONDERLAND, Africa. Your verse packaging is musical, thus when a poem read like Bangiza or Nhemamusasa mbira tunes. AFRICANESS.  And your lyrical touch is balanced and simple. while the flow smacks the raving blood stream of the reader to dance to the shelling like pounding verses, poetically pounding our groping hearts to pulp. ICONIC. The poem TEACH ME HOW TO KEEP A WOMAN HAPPY takes me back to the rondavelsof home, those rondavels sitting on the edges of ageless Zvegona hills, rondavels quilted by beautiful red and clay pastas, floors jacketed by cow dung droppings and the smell abound is not stink but the aroma of Africaness. This poetry is real poetry. It traverses back and forth with me to the land of my birthing, where owls stare fixedly to the silver moon as if summoning Gods that, why the light?  And sometimes, the sunrise with its face creased with village gossip graffiti and followed by incessant wails of sorrow beaten mothers, another funeral, another death. VILLAGE DIARIES. Dogs bark still and birds sing still. The Akipe  poem takes me further down memory- lane to my old kraal heads home , Where headman Sabhuku gulps greedily from the gourd of opaque  millet brew and at the same  giving half back judgement  to those on the wrong side of the village conduct. The poem identifies with you as a young African with  your sober understanding of your   identity. The poem is identity. Kenya and Africa, I present to you a great poet in the making BIKO IRITU.   Sawa Sawa- (Editorial Recitation by Mbizo CHIRASHA)