Hauwa shaffer nuri

Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu is a poet and essayist from Nigeria, whose work has appeared on Popula, Ake Review, Lolwe, Arts and Africa, After The Pause journal, Bitter Oleander, 20.35 Africa, Memento, and elsewhere. She is a 2018 fellow of Ebedi Writers Residency and a two-time shortlistee of the Nigerian Students Poetry Prize. She has an LLB from Bayero University, Kano State. Quotes "Poetry has afforded me the language to translate moments personally lived and magic into words. Because in it, I have realized that no emotion no matter how intense is solitary, no human condition no matter how peculiar, is not shared." "My capacity to feel — is a product of poetry; I am a product of poetry." "I’m not sure my memory serves me well at this moment. But it could very well be a poem of 99 lines which I wrote for a boy. I was 15 and completely sure I was in love. So, I expressed it in the way that came closest to me. It was hilarious, in retrospect. I never even showed it to him. It was my personal thing. I took the poem around for years but I have now lost it." As every writer will tell you, the greatest sharpener of the gift of writing is reading. But at the time, I didn’t know this. I was subconsciously improving both my spoken and written language. When you meet someone who reads widely, it reflects in how well they speak. The only difference I think, between myself and my friends who read during my primary school days was that while they read for entertainment, I read to satisfy a certain hunger. Category:Academics from Nigeria Category:Novelists from Nigeria Category:Essayists from Nigeria Category:Literary critics