Originally from Canada, Nathan Suhr-Sytsma is Associate Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Institute of African Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author of Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and African Poetry Worlds in the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Contributions
“A trembling”: Notes on Death in Recent Nigerian Canadian Poetry
In February 2023, Lagos-based critic Oris Aigbokhaevbolo launched a new online literary magazine, Efiko, with a piece entitled “The Death of Nigerian Literature,” in which he indicted the hollowing out of Nigeria-based literary platforms and flight of writers to creative writing programs abroad.[1] The next month, a young poet