Perpetual Emenekwum-Eziefule
Emenekwum, like many writers from Nigeria, grew up devouring the works of Soyinka, Emecheta, Achebe and Alkali. She received the Music Society of Nigeria (MUSON) Poetry 2000 second place prize with her poem "Curves of Change" featured here. A Master of Arts degree holder from the University of Ibadan, Emenekwum is a member of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), the Nigerian Union of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) and Publicity Secretary of the Women Writers of Nigeria (WRITA).
Entries by this Author
Woman - Poems By Perpetual Emenekwum-Eziefule
- By Perpetual Emenekwum-Eziefule
- Published June 16, 2005
- Poetry
- Unrated
The sky has refused to cry Amidst pleas from broken men
Who seek succour from its plunging dim...
Curves of Change - Poems by Perpetual Emenekwum-Eziefule
- By Perpetual Emenekwum-Eziefule
- Published May 23, 2005
- Poetry
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There is speech in my bones; laughter in my voiceThere are songs and to their rhythms I dance
Dancing for yesterday, today, tomorrow.
I speak of the blossoms we call by other names...