Efe Paul Azino

Efe Paul Azino (b 1979, Nigeria) is widely regarded as one of Nigeria's leading performance poets. He is the director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival, director of poetry at the annual Lagos Book and Art Festival, and coordinator of spoken word poetry at the Open Door Series' International Cultural Exchange and the Lagos Black Heritage Festival. Efe Paul is the producer of Nigeria’s first spoken-word poetry theatre production Finding Home. He is an Osiwa poetry residency fellow and For Broken Men Who Cross Often, published by Farafina Books, is his first collection. He lives in Lagos.