Iheoma Uzomba

Iheoma Uzomba

Staff Writer

Iheoma Uzomba is a Staff Writer at Open Country Mag, where she writes Profiles and reviews. She is a spoken word artiste and poet. Her poems have appaeared on Rattle Magazine, Palette Poetry, The Shore Poetry, The Rising Phoenix Review, Ake Review, Isele Magazine, and elsewhere. In 2022, she was winner of the Lagos-London Poetry Contest. A Poetry Translation Center (UK) UNDERTOW Fellow, she holds a BA degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She was editor of The Muse Journal No. 50. A stark raving mad poet, she hails on Instagram: @iheomauzomba.

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August 19, 2024

A story with significant potential, BB Sasore’s AMVCAs-winning film succeeds in positioning the lives of these two men separated by class, religion, and belief systems, even as it fails to probe the depths of their characters.

July 26, 2024

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.

March 28, 2024

Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world — and her place in it as a Muslim Somali woman.

March 6, 2024

In Exodus, his debut collection, ‘Gbenga Adeoba threads the histories, migrations, and traumas of people forced to sea.

August 19, 2024

A story with significant potential, BB Sasore’s AMVCAs-winning film succeeds in positioning the lives of these two men separated by class, religion, and belief systems, even as it fails to probe the depths of their characters.

July 26, 2024

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.

March 28, 2024

Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world — and her place in it as a Muslim Somali woman.

March 6, 2024

In Exodus, his debut collection, ‘Gbenga Adeoba threads the histories, migrations, and traumas of people forced to sea.

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