Capacity Building in youths using Spoken Word Poetry as a tool and as a medium

War Of Words is an event aimed at promoting and showcasing new, unknown and upcoming performance poets. It is a platform that announces the little known talents to the world. War Of Words is a fast rising Slam Poetry competition that attracts poets from different part of Nigeria to compete on stage for a grand prize. It also serves as a way to select poets that will perform at “WORD UP,” (one of the foremost Spoken Word Poetry events in Nigeria that features the best Spoken Word Poets in Nigeria all on one stage).

We have successfully organized 6 editions of War Of Words from June 2013 to December 2017, and have had six different winners. The past winners are:

Titi Mabogunje (currently a 19 year old student of African Leadership Academy, South Africa.) War Of Words 1, Chika Jones Onwuasoanya (graduate of FUTO Owerri) War Of Words 2, Graciano Enwerem (OAP at Rhythm FM in Port Harcourt) War Of Words 3, Paul Word (Student of UNIBEN) War Of Words 4 and Ibukun Ajagbe (15 year old student) War Of Words 5.

Based on her participation in War Of Words Season 5, Ibukun was invited to perform in Switzerland in April 2016 by the Swiss Malaria Group.

In 2017, Wayne Samuel (a copy writer) won War Of Words 6, which was modified from a one day event into an event that involved two semifinals and one final and was held over 3 consecutive weekends.

This 2018 we have plans to stage a special expanded edition of the event, tagged War Of Words Season 7 #WarOfWords7 #WOWNaija. The event will involve Poets from all over Nigeria and other African countries coming on stage to compete against each other in what will be an epic battle of wits, wordplay and intellect. The standard and quality of the poets are guaranteed.

Spoken word poetry is so damn sexy!