Samuella Conteh chants Revolution!

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SAMUELLA JULIA CONTEH* is a writer, poet, dramatist and motivational speaker. Conteh is a member of the Sierra Leone Writers Forum and an active Board Member of PEN-Sierra Leone. Her Writings are featured in several, national and international anthologiesPoet Julia Conteh is involved with many Writers and Poetry Activism platforms notably ,Motivational Strips, Poetry Planet, World Nations Writers’ Union (WNWU), Writing for Success, Ink Africa and Poets in Nigeria and has pocketed numerous online writing awards including: Medal of Ambassador de Literature (ADL) – Motivational Strips, Award of World Poetic Star, Award of Mahatma Ghandi, the Order Of Shakespeare (OOS) and the Premio Mundial a la Excellencia Literaria, 2019-2020 – Peru.Writer Conteh is the Contributing Associate of WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS in West Africa and a regular Contributor to the BeZine, Arts and Humanities Publication. Samuella Julia Conteh works with the National Human Rights Commission of Sierra- Leone. Her poetry is a weapon of mass instruction . She uses the opportunity in Rights organization to create platforms of expression , human rights and peace activism . Revolutionary in the making . She slings her pen , her creative spear with the zeal to bring back freedom and laughter to the butchered earth of her land.WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS embraces all who yearn , seek , call , voice ,speak and write resilience, resistance , hard truth , human rights and positive change*( WOMAWORDS Editor)*

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UNWELCOMED

Corona, stop digging your heels deep

at the junction of our fortitude

fanning our fear from your nostrils

even as you coax to be embraced

by outstretched arms of nonchalance

Flags are raised to our hospitality

but the raging noise of your silence

broke the calabash holding our today

while your hideous facelessness

rush us to mask our vulnerabilities

Bid us farewell now, we beseech you

your fire has roasted the ‘furrah’*

we sacrificed to our hungry ancestors

in your gluttony, you consumed

kolanuts left for welcomed spirits

Corona, leave our farmhouses now

even while the thatch is up in flames

we will run down to our river of hope

to fetch water to put out your memory

forbid not your stench graze in our lungs

#Unwelcomed

“DREAM’

Never cringe in the face of scorn

For a unique being you were born

Your will to live ne’er abandon

The cloak of faith always adorn

Stay constant as the Northern Star

Even in death’s vale, do not fear

That beautiful dream do not spare

Even from woes do not despair

From little foxes mind your vines

Turn life’s grapes into purest wines

Beautiful dreams thrive not on whines

Hard work and faith on success dines

“HOURS IN REVERSE”

My people are a resilient lot, with coping skills to match

Their jocular acumen can make dark days shades lighter

As they churn out sweet mirth from sordid situations

So I send up three cheers of hurray to my compatriots

Who would not crawl into corners of fear and hopelessness

Late into the night, I caressed my quill into a constant spill

Sweetly exchanging silent whispers with my abiding muse

My ears flapped wider to the sounds of dice thrown on glass

I smiled at the back of my neighbours chilling on a game of ludo

Days in lockdown would be long, so we spend them long into nights

As I scribbled, they threw their dice followed by laughter

Late into the night to the wee hours of lockdown day two

Me and my compatriots reversed hours to massacre boredom

I succumbed to sleep, to wake up still to their game of ludo

I was still cajoling my muse when their silence greeted the morn

SAMUELLA J. CONTEH is from Sierra Leone, West Africa. CONTEH is a writer, poet, dramatist and motivational speaker. She is a member of the Sierra Leone Writers Forum and Member of Board of PEN-SL. President of the International African Writers Association in Sierra Leone.Samuella’s poems and short stories have been featured in several national and international anthologies. She has also received many awards including the Medal of Ambassador de Literature (ADL), Award of World Poetic Star, Award of Mahatma Medal, and most recently, the Order Of Shakes.

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MBIZO CHIRASHA is the Poet in Residence at the Fictional Café (International publishing and literary digital space). 2019 Sotambe Festival Live Literature Hub and Poetry Café Curator. 2019 African Fellow for the International Human Rights Art Festival( ihraf.org) , Essays Contributor to Monk Art and Soul Magazine in United Kingdom .Arts Features Writer at the International Cultural Weekly .His Profiles , Interview and Poems are featured on poesis.si ,in Slovenia. Founder and Chief Editor of WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS. Founder and Curator of the Brave Voices Poetry Journal. Co-Editor of Street Voices Poetry triluangal collection( English , African Languages and Germany) intiated by Andreas Weiland in Germany. Poetry Contributor to AtunisPoetry.com in Belgium. African Contributor to DemerPress International Poetry Book Series in Netherlands. African Contributor to the World Poetry Almanac Poetry Series in Mongolia. His latest 2019 collection of experimental poetry A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT was released by Mwanaka Media and Publishing and is both in print, on Amazon.com and at is featured at African Books Collective. Mbizo Chirasha is the Originator of the Zimbabwe We Want Poetry Campaign. Founder and Creative Director of Girl Child Talent Festival and GirlChildCreativity Project. 2003 Young Literary Arts Delegate to the Goteborg International Book Fair Sweden (SIDA AFRICAN PAVILION) .2009 Poet in Residence of the International Conference of African Culture and Development (ICACD) in Ghana.The Vice President of Poetsof the WORLD,poetasdelmundo.com ,African Region. Global Peace Chain Ambassador. 2009 Fellow to the inaugural UNESCO- Africa Photo- Novel Publishers and Writers Training in Tanzania. 2015 Artist in Residence of the Shunguna Mutitima International Film and Arts Festival in Livingstone, Zambia. A globally certified literary arts influencer, Writer in Residence and Recipient of the EU-Horn of Africa Defend Defenders Protection Fund Grant, Recipient of the Pen Deutschland Exiled Writer Grant. He is an Arts for Peace and Human Rights Catalyst, the Literary Arts Projects Curator, Poet, Writer, publicist is published in more 200 spaces in print and online.

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