The Slam Africa Pod collaborates with The Poetry Café for a powerful cross-continental dialogue featuring Josephus III, Greensboro’s inaugural Poet Laureate, and Ian Gwagi, curator of the Poetry Slam Africa Festival.

In this episode, the hosts explore poetry practice, experiential insights, and the intentional building of platforms that support artists and communities. From classrooms and youth slams to radio, festivals, and global stages, the conversation highlights real opportunities for young poets, the role of mentorship, and the future of poetry as a cultural force.

This episode bridges African and diasporic spoken word scenes, offering inspiration, practical insight, and a shared vision for collaboration and growth.

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We have a sitdown with Sulle, Formerly Fuse Sulle, a cosmic wordsmith, sketch master, pencil artist, painter, multimedia mural artist, and penman. He is a guru at wordplay and metaphorical juxtaposition whose space-time continuum bending mastery of sheng poetry transports audiences to an unexplored, awe-inspiring dimension of consciousness.

His work centres around chaos and calm, motion and stillness, frankness and reticence and employs a wide range of artistic tools to condense life's complexities into simple linguistic wonders.

His evolution into a builder of cross-genre and multimedia amalgams of poetry, prose, music and visual art to create introspective pieces of art has brought him in contact with creators and performers of similar militancy and inclination.

Fuse is the 23rd Slam Africa champion.

Hosted by: Ian Nonickname

Audio recorded by: Two Tea

Scar Poetry alias Priscar Njeri is a poet whose work strives to move humanity forward in healing and togetherness. Her poetry delves into the darkest parts of humanity believing that it is in exposing ourselves, our wounds, and being our most authentic selves that we can heal as individuals and collectively.

She is an award-winning poet, soon to be published, recently claiming the title of PYSK Women's Slam Champion 2024.

Exploring themes of womanhood, humanity, love, war, politics, social justice, identity, and authenticity. Writing has always been her refuge, a way to make peace with the complexities of the world and envision a brighter future for us all.

Greatly influenced by women and indigenous poets, Scar Poetry hopes to inspire readers to embrace their authentic selves and cultivate compassion for each other. She hopes her poetry inspires a greater sense of care for one another and serves as a reminder of our shared humanity.

She has just launched her YouTube channel @Scarandherpoetry where she hopes to share her journey as a poet and in life. Scar Poetry hopes To be remembered as someone who spoke up for the voiceless and worked to remind us the duty we owe to each other and humanity.

Catch her conversation with Sannario on her beginnings, her poetry and work within the community

Recorded with a live audience at the Alliance Française Nairobi Multimedia Library.

Audio Edited by: Two Tea