In an important cultural gesture, the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, in partnership with the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), organized a round table entitled “Africa celebrates Wole Soyinka in Morocco,” at the academy’s headquarters, to mark the 90th birthday of Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, the first African to
Interview By Alessia Marani, Almax Magazine, Italy
Alessia from Almax Magazine: Welcome Gioia, it's a pleasure to have you here with us. I would like to start by asking you how your passion for writing was born and what were the key moments in your artistic journey?
Gioia Lomasti: Thanks to you, Alessia, for this opportunity.
You’re on the other side and I am here
A forbidden river flows between us
Azizul Hakim, an eminent poet from West Bengal, India shares his poem
Azizul Hakim was born on 21st January 1972 in a remote village Lakshmi Narayanpur – Kolan of Murshidabad district in West Bengal, India. He fell in love with poetry while he
What we teach our daughters of marriage is almost nil. In olden times, mothers used to force the idea of the ‘real home’ of the girl being the house of her in-laws.
If a daughter is to be married off, she has to be trained about the arts which make the marriage successful.
A daughter has to be a daughter-in-law, and she
Emotions are actually twisted when they come under the gaze of thought. A thought is an iron-trap in which an emotion is framed
The world is an ordered chaos, and we need a surface make-over so that it looks better to the eye. There are two sides of a man’s personality. Same is true