A poem written by Yewande Adebowale, Read by Tee. Photo by Deleece Cook via unsplash
Caged, a poem by Nigerian poet Yewande Adebowale, speaks of the boundaries to coexistence set by humans. You can find text of poem here.
Image: Deleece Cook
Yewande Adebowale is a Nigerian lawyer, storyteller, poet and author. She has authored two poem collections — ‘A tale of being, of green and of ing..’ (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories’ (2016). Her poems have appeared in Visual Verse, Afritondo, Trampset,and Poemify.
Her works carve a niche of poetic storytelling assuming a prose-like form of creative expression inspired by her African roots. Winner of the Fidelity Bank prize for creative writing and TGN poetry prize, her works are inspired by the realities of life and living, in poetic and philosophical fashion.
She lives in and writes from the city of Lagos, Nigeria.
