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Multiple Award-Winning Poet Tolu’ A. Akinyemi – The Lion of Newcastle announces North-East Spoken Word Tour for Autumn 2023

Multiple Award-winning poet and storyteller Tolu A. Akinyemi, aka The Lion of Newcastle, will be touring selected venues across the North East this Autumn. Come along and see him perform pieces from...

Four Poems | Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

Structures of Criminality We are breaking the structures of criminality one brick at a time. We are obidient to deconstructing the brigandage that is our eternal reality. We are dismantling the status...

With his Twentieth Published Work “The Morning Cloud is Empty” Multiple Award-Winning Newcastle-Based Nigerian Author reaches Incredible Milestone.

Notable Nigerian poet, essayist, storyteller and children’s author, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi’s latest collection of poems, ‘The Morning Cloud is Empty’ adds the prodigious Nigerian talent to the illustrious rank of Authors with...

The Lion of Newcastle, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi is set to Release Four Books at The Lit and Phil Newcastle

Join author extraordinaire, the Lion of Newcastle, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi at his books signing and reading event at The Lit & Phil on the 8th of September 2022. At this event, Tolu’...

Newcastle Publishing Imprint Secures the European Rights to Jide Badmus’s Collection of Poems – “What Do I Call My Love For Your Body”

The Roaring Lion Newcastle Ltd. committed to publishing outstanding books written by Black Authors has signed prolific Nigerian Poet, essayist, and storyteller, Jide Badmus, on a year 5 book deal for his...

Renowned African Writer appointed as a columnist for 2022 in Malimbe Magazine

The ingenious writing prodigy who has published fourteen books and has six forthcoming titles joins the roll-call of other illustrious African Writers who have been columnists at Malimbe Magazine. Tolu’ A. Akinyemi...

Cancel Culture: The birth of a voiceless generation

It’s a great pleasure to be here today to talk to you about a topic that interests me. And should interest all of us. A topic eating at the heart of society....

Newcastle-Based Author writes his name in the annals of history with ‘Born in Lockdown’

Written by multi-award-winning author Tolu’ A. Akinyemi, ‘Born in Lockdown’ is a writer’s account of the coronavirus pandemic using poetry as a tool. The goal is to document the coronavirus pandemic era...

Making the Most of the Opportunities that abound as a creative.

In this pandemic era, the landscape of work and building new relationships has changed drastically. We now carry out most of our activities online. The last one year has been a season...

Lead-Africa Writers (LAW) Emergence Conference 2020: Shift via Glocalization as a Transformative Writer by Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

Goal: This session is to help participants understand writing from the perspective of a global audience and enable their transition to writing for the International reader audience In our rapidly changing world,...