In Africa, millions are suffering a lot. Their lives have trampled over
them with so critical problems. They are threatened by poverty, crushed
by unemployment, wars, and disease overcomes them. The statistics tell
us a lot about the aggravation of humanity's problems in the
twenty-first century, as if the more humanity progresses,
The editor of the Silk Road Literature Series announced that the new edition of the Silk Road Anthology (Nano Poems for Africa) attracted the participation of 145 poets from 45 countries on six continents.
African poets participated from Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, while Asia poets came from Saudi Arabia, India,
It has been a busy year, thanks to getting back to my favorite action of travel. In April 2022, I was in
Togo for giving a paper on African Literature and Environment, in the country’s first
literature symposium, hosted by the University of Lomé, and organized by the Togolese
Writers Union.
In June, I was invited to
Alexandra Ochirova presents her book (My Horizons) as if she were making a philosophical poetic statement with logic.
This edition in Russian, English, and Arabic, which I had the amusement to translate, is part of the Silk Road Literature Series, a path perfectly represented by Alexandra Ochirova 's biography; she is a UNESCO Goodwill
The Kazakh writer and translator, Bakhit Rustamov, combines being a
writer outside the local borders and a practitioner of popular diplomacy
- acting an important role in friendship between the peoples of the
world. I met him personally for the first time in Turkey at the Eurasian
International Literary Festival (LIFFT), 2021.
