Poetic Wednesdays Initiative has announced the appointment of Naseeba Babale as its new Creative Director.
The literary organisation which promotes literature and literary activities in Northern Nigeria and recently organised the Kano International Poetry Festival, announced this appointment on the 5th of August, 2024.
Naseeba Babale is a medical laboratory scientist with Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. She formerly served as the Secretary of the Poetic Wednesdays Initiative. She was also the moderator for Glass Door Initiative’s Poetically Written Prose contest from 2019 to 2021, and the second runner-up for the 2018 edition of the same contest.
A Co-organizer of TEDxAminuKanoWay in 2019, Babale was one of the judges of the 2020 edition of The Nigerian Students Prize organized by Poets in Nigeria. She co-curated the maiden edition of the Kano International Poetry Festival.
Her poems have been published by Brittle Paper, African Writer Magazine, Ghost City Press and others. She was shortlisted for the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Prize 2023.
Babale was a columnist for Konya Shams Rumi and is a lover of arts. She is the author of the chapbook, The Rain is Like You (Konya Shams Rumi, 2023) and the poetry collection, Pickled Moments (Konya Shams Rumi, 2024). She hails from Kano State, Nigeria.
