Efe Paul Azino
Widely regarded as one of Nigeria’s leading performance poets, Efe has been a headliner at many of the nation’s premier poetry venues.
Widely regarded as one of Nigeria’s leading performance poets, Efe has been a headliner at many of the nation’s premier poetry venues.
He is the founder and director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival, director of poetry at the annual Lagos Book and Art Festival, director of spoken word poetry at the Open Door Series’ International Cultural Exchange and the Lagos Black Heritage Festival. He is also the producer of Nigeria’s first spoken word poetry theater production Finding Home.
Efe has been a popular performer at the Johannesburg Arts Alive Festival, Ake Book and Arts Festival, Lagos Book and Arts Festival, Lights Camera Africa Film Festival, and British Council Lagos Theater Festival amongst others. He is an Osiwa Poetry Residency Fellow, and For Broken Men Who Cross Often, his first collection of poetry, is published by Farafina Books.
