Inua Ellams

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright and  performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of:  The Midnight Run (an arts-filled, night-time, urban  walking experience.), The Rhythm and Poetry Party (The R.A.P Party) which celebrates live literature and  music, and Poetry + Film / Hack (P+F/H) which celebrates poetry and film. Identity, Displacement & Destiny are reoccurring themes in his work, where he tries to mix the old with the new: traditional African oral storytelling with contemporary poetics, paint with pixel, texture with vector. His books are published by Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches, Penned In The Margins & Bloomsbury.



Image credit: Inua Ellams and Adama Jalloh