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Inua Ellams

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a cross art form practitioner, poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of the Midnight Run — an international, arts-filled, night-time, playful, urban, walking experience. He is a Complete Works poet alumni and a designer at White Space Creative Agency.

Across his work, identity, displacement & destiny are recurring themes in which he also tries to mix the old with the new: traditional African storytelling with contemporary poetry, pencil with pixel, texture with vector images. His three books of poetry are published by Flipped Eye and Akashic Books, and several plays by Oberon. 

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Refugee Walk // Part 1 by Inua Ellams
Refugee Walk // Part 1 … Stories of Migration and Displacement … 28 June. Africa Writes. Houses of Parliament. Inua Ellams … I first visited the Houses of Parliament in 2012 just before the start of the Olympics.
Refugee Walk // Part 2 by Inua Ellams
Refugee Walk // Part 2 … Inua Ellams … Refugee Tales’ simple mandate is to put an end to Britain’s indefinite detention of immigrants. Britain is the only country in the EU that does this — that detains immigrants, essentially imprisons them indefinitely.
Another Way of Looking: Talking to Inua Ellams
In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, Angelique Golding talks with poet and playwright Inua Ellams on adapting Chekhov's Three Sisters for the National Theatre and in the context of the Biafran War, his Hausa heritage, the curriculum and his ‘cultural touchstones’, and more.
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