My guests this week: Caleb, Wealth, Angel, Gregory, Daphne, Edwin, Diamond, Nicosha and Promise – some of the inspiring young people Raphael Olympio works as a youth mentor with the Cork...
Raphael Olympio, aka Olympio, is an immensely talented rapper and spoken word artist from Cork who was born in Togo, West Africa. He grew up in a Direct Provision Centre and feels inspired to...
This week I’m talking to Iraqi poet, Majed Mujed, who’s lived in Ireland since 2015. One of the founders of the Iraqi House of Poetry, he worked as a journalist and publisher in the Iraqi...
If you remember last week, I talked to Nalougo, one of the members of ‘Write to Life’ – the creative writing and performance group of Freedom from Torture (established in 1997, the longest...
This week I’m delighted to talk to Nalougo, a member of a creative writing and performance group with Freedom From Torture. ‘Write To Life’ is the longest-running refugee-writing group in the UK, and...
Poet and playwright, Nandi Jola, lived in South Africa under the apartheid regime until she was 21, when she moved to Northern Ireland. She’s a Rachel Baptiste 2022 Programme recipient at Smock Alley...
Felicia Olusanya aka FELISPEAKS, is a Nigerian-Irish poet, performer and playwright from Co. Longford who’s currently featured on the Leaving Cert English Curriculum with their poem ‘For Our...
Samuel Yakura is a Nigerian born writer, poet and performing artist living in Ireland. He’s a multiple-time Slam Champion both in Nigeria and in Ireland, winning Slam competitions like...
Welcome back to this new season of WANDER with even more fantastic writers! I’ll also be switching it up a bit in some of the episodes this time. Some of the guests wrote specially commissioned...