Dike Chukwumerije

Dike Chukwumerije is the 2011 Abuja Literary Society (ALS) Poetry Slam champion, the 2012 The African Poet (Nigeria) Grand Slam champion, and the 2013 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) winner of the prize for prose fiction. In 2013, he created the Night of the Spoken Word (NSW) platform to showcase emerging talent. In 2016, building on NSW success, Dike launched Simply Poetry Ltd, a production company focused on staging poetry commercially. The company’s first production premiered in October 2016, and went on to tour the country, staging over 20 times, in more than 9 cities. Dike is an accomplished public speaker and, in 2019, participated in the US International Visiting Leaders Program (IVLP) on Art for Social Change.