Badilisha Poetry X-Change

Its aims are to fill this void as well as create a comprehensive global archive of Pan-African poets that can accessed internationally.

Its existence continues to provide new and established Pan-African voices a space of celebration, documentation, proliferation, and self-reflection.

Events in the past have included week-long poetry interventions that showcase poets from the African Continent and its Diaspora.

Each live intervention has focused on expanding performance poetry beyond entertainment into a medium for social activism, through workshops, seminars and masterclasses.

Past festivals have featured D'bi Young, Kwame Dawes, Anis Mojgani, Ngoma Hill, Aryan Kaganof, Warsan Shire, Lemn Sissay, Emile Jansen, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Megan Hall and Dorothea Smartt.