Meet the ArtingArena Team
Behind every story, poem, and artwork you will see on ArtingArena is a team of passionate creatives dedicated to one vision — taking African art to the world. Led by Oyin Bimbo, our Founder and Head Editor, the team includes Oletu Oghenenyore C and MK Kuol as Editors, with Auwal Read more
Chapbook Poetry Contest (Submission Window Extension)
ADDRESS CONCERNING THE ARTINGARENA CHAPBOOK CONTEST Greetings, dear poets, writers, and enigmas. This is to inform you that the deadline for our chapbook competition has been extended to October 20, 2023. Our judges have started reading the brilliant entries received so far and we are glad to grant you more Read more
Chit-Chat, Poetics & Ethos
About the Interviewer JOEL OYELEKE studies Literature in English at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He is a poet, literary enthusiast, God addict, and curator of Poetry Village, OAU. Author of THE THEM IN ME (Direwords, 2022). Co-author of LET ME GRIEVE (ArtingArena Magazine, 2023). He has works published on IHRAF, Read more
Black Is Beautiful
We are happy to announce our latest publication, our third issue of the LIGHTENING AFRICA publication –Black Is Beautiful. As we have repeatedly claimed, this is our best publication yet, and the reason we’d make such a claim over and over is embedded in the PDF file. Use the download Read more






