Su’eddie Vershima Agema is a Nigerian poet, editor, cultural advocate and development practitioner. He holds a Chevening MA with distinction in International Education and Development from the University of Sussex. He’s won multiple major awards, including the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize (2014 & 2022) and the Mandela Day Short Story Prize (2016), and was shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022. Su’eddie Agema leads SEVHAGE Publishers and the SEVHAGE Literary & Development Initiative, and convenes the Benue Book & Arts Festival. His published works include Memory and the Call of Waters; Home Equals Holes: Tale of an Exile; Bring Our Casket Home: Tales One Shouldn’t Tell; the short story collection, The Bottom of Another Tale; and the children’s book, Once Upon a Village Tale.
Across many African traditions, the mind is not the sovereign it imagines itself to be. The Yoruba show the delineation of this in the inner…
