DEJI IGE

Spoken Word BY DEJI IGE

90th Chapter of Wole Soyinka

Deji Ige took the stage to honor literary icon Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday. His performance was a powerful and lyrical tribute celebrating Soyinka’s legacy.

About DEJI IGE

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Deji Ige is a writer, a poet, a spoken word artiste and a communication expert. He has carved a niche in the sphere of ideological writing, and renowned for his ability to fuse African indigenous languages into his works. He has spoken on several stages and for television and radio audiences. Among many, he has been on the stages of: TED Talks (TEDx), United Nations Population Fund, African Economic Congress, Youth Hub Africa, United Nations Development Programme, Young African Leaders Initiative, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation, United Bank for Africa.

Deji Ige was a speaker alongside Wole Soyinka, Samia Nkrumah, Tony Elumelu, Femi Kuti and Djibril Tamsir Niane, at the UBA Africa Day celebration 2019. He was tasked by the Embassy of the United States of America in Nigeria to give a poetic welcome to U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the interactive session with Nigerian innovators during his visit to Nigeria in 2021. He was Creative Member of the Nigerian Delegation that met with the Canadian Delegation led by Her Excellency Julie Payette-the Governor General of Canada during her visit to Nigeria in 2018 and a performer at the event.

Spoken Word BY DEJI IGE

Let there be

Light

Deji Ige has carved a niche in the sphere of ideological writing, and renowned for his ability to fuse African indigenous languages into his works.

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Short Poems & Quotes

What People Are Saying About Deji Ige & His Works

"Deji, thank you. Thank you so much. I think that’s the best introduction I’ve ever gotten. I’m glad it’s being recorded. I want to be able to replay it."

Secretary Antony BlinkenUS Secretary of State

“A Multi-modal Critical Pragmatic analysis of Deji Ige’s selected poem ‘Let there be Light’: Deji explores signs and symbols in his speech. And these items carry meanings, and they are meanings themselves”

Stanley Ordu & Francis Attah Egu Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis

“Deji Ige believes he owes a lot to African tradition and culture especially in his art. He sincerely calls it his duty to preserve, propagate, exploit, and ultimately promote the culture and tradition and their elements through his spoken word form”

Prof. Chike Okoye

"This poem(Let there be light) written by Deji condemned the crimes and all the bad things that the government is doing which made the youth angry."

BBC News Igbo

"Famous Nigerian poet, Deji Ige, in his poetic rendition, described Elumelu as a man “whose destiny is written in hard work, sweat and struggle. “His name is a reminder that no one knows tomorrow”

Thisday Newspaper

“Deji Ige (Let there be light), who asked which way Nigeria (Sunny Okosuns, 1983, and that was when there was still a way) bemoaned the Nigerian situation in which poverty is a stakeholder, hunger is the breadwinner, fuel scarcity is a citizen, the reward of teachers is still in heaven, salary remains a punishment for hard-work and a cow is equal to (indeed more valued than) humans due to a rickety, myopic leadership’ driving us recklessly into the obviously shark-infested deep blue sea”

Business Day