Rasaq Malik Explained

Rasaq Malik
Birth Name:Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
Nationality:Nigerian
Birth Place:Iseyin, Oyo State, Nigeria
Education:
Language:English, Yoruba

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan (born 1992) is a Nigerian poet and essayist.

With Ọ̀rẹ́dọlá Ibrahim, Malik is the co-founder of Àtẹ́lẹwọ́, the first digital journal devoted to publishing works written in the Yorùbá language.[1] [2] [3] He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Agbowó.

Education

Malik earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English Language at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2013 and 2017, respectively.[4] [5]

Works

Malik is the author of two poetry chapbooks: No Home In This Land, which was selected for a chapbook box edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani in 2018, and The Other Names of Grief, published in 2021 by Konya Shamsrumi, an African poetry press which he formed with four other Nigerian poets in November 2017.[6] [7] [8] [9]

His poems, which often come off as dirges, threnodies, elegies and such other melancholic typologies of poetry, have attracted wide reviews on different literary platforms, including Open Country Mag, Olongo Africa, and African Writer Magazine, Qwenu! and in national dailies for example Daily Trust, TheCable Lifestyle.[10] [11] [12] [13]

Malik's poems have appeared in many literary journals and mediums, including the African American Review, Colorado Review, the Crab Orchard Review, LitHub, the Michigan Quarterly Review, The Minnesota Review, the New Orleans Review, the Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Rattle, Verse Daily, among several others.[14] [15] [16] [17] His essays have also been published in mediums such as Olongo Africa and Agbowó.[18] [19]

Rasaq was one of 126 established and emerging African poets who contributed to Wreaths for a Wayfarer, an anthology mourning the death of Nigerian-Canadian academic and public intellectual Pius Adesanmi in a March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines plane crash.[20] [21] [22] He, alongside 31 other poets, also contributed to Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #EndSARS Anthology, edited by Nigerian writers Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku. Published in February 2022, the collection memorialized the End SARS protests against police brutality in Nigeria.[23] [24]

Malik has been profiled and or interviewed on platforms including The Shallow Tales Review, CỌ́N-SCÌÒ Magazine, Africa in Dialogue and Gainsayer.[25] [26] [27] [28]

Malik won Honorable Mention in 2015 Best of the Net for his poem "Elegy", published in One. Rattle nominated his poems "How My Mother Spends Her Nights" and "What My Children Remember" for the Pushcart Prize in 2016 and 2019, respectively.[29] He was shortlisted for Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017.[30] [31] He was a finalist for Sillerman First Book for African Poets in 2018.[32]

Malik regularly shares his work on his social media handles.[33]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: atelewo . Ikọ̀ . 2022-05-17 . Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2018-01-30 . Okediji, Tubosun... 40 writers unveil Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ -- anthology to preserve Yoruba culture . 2022-05-17 . TheCable . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2021-06-06 . Group organises first-ever Yoruba book auction on Twitter . 2022-05-17 . en-GB.
  4. 2019 . Contributors . Prairie Schooner . 93 . 1 . 189–192 . 10.1353/psg.2019.0026 . 239110916 . 1542-426X.
  5. Web site: Rasaq Malik . 2022-08-06 . Africa Is A Country . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2018-10-17 . New-Generation African Poets: Tano . 2022-05-17 . World Literature Today . en.
  7. Web site: Konya Shamsrumi Releases Funmi Gaji and Rasaq Malik Gbolahan (RMG) . 2022-05-17 . Konya Shamsrumi . en-US.
  8. Web site: 2019-11-03 . Konya Shamsrumi gets new head . 2022-05-17 . The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News . en-US.
  9. Web site: 5 Poets, 1 Publishing House - The Story Of Konya Shamsrumi Collective. . 2022-05-17.
  10. Web site: 2021-03-05 . Rasaq Malik Gbolahan & Funmi Gaji on Their New Poetry Books from Konya Shamsrumi . 2022-05-17 . Open Country Mag . en-US.
  11. Ezenwa . Chinua . 2021-02-27 . Of trauma, home and wars in Rasaq Malik's No Home in This Land . Journal of Postcolonial Writing and World Literatures . en . 2 . 1.
  12. Web site: 2018-07-31 . Of Grief-Poetics on Place and People: Rasak Malik's Achebesque Death Knells In No Home In This Land . 2022-05-17 . African Writer . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2020-05-24 . Book Review Title: No Home in this Land – Author: Rasaq Malik Reviewed by Umar Yogiza Jr . 2022-05-17 . Qwenu! . en-GB.
  14. Malik . Rasaq . 2022 . For Derek Walcott, and: On Nights Like This, and: New Land . African American Review . 55 . 1 . 87–88 . 10.1353/afa.2022.0005 . 248089906 . 1945-6182.
  15. Malik . Rasaq . 2019 . In Dahyan, and: Country of Birth . Colorado Review . 46 . 2 . 131–132 . 10.1353/col.2019.0064 . 199216965 . 2325-730X.
  16. Malik . Rasaq . 2017-05-01 . What They Remember . The Minnesota Review . 2017 . 88 . 14 . 10.1215/00265667-3786803 . 151969459 . 0026-5667.
  17. Malik . Rasaq . 2019 . What Remains after My Grandmother's Death . Prairie Schooner . 93 . 1 . 101–102 . 10.1353/psg.2019.0013 . 146108044 . 1542-426X.
  18. Web site: 2021-09-01 . On Digital Obituary . 2022-05-17 . Olongo Africa . en.
  19. Web site: 2018-09-17 . Review: In Memoriam of A Poet's Homeland Rasaq Malik Gbolahan . 2022-05-17 . Agbowó . en-US.
  20. Web site: Wreaths for a Wayfarer: An Anthology in Honour of Pius Adesanmi . 2022-05-17 . Daraja Press . en-US.
  21. Web site: When Wreaths are Laid for a Wayfarer Ifésinàchi Nwádiké Review . 2022-05-17 . brittlepaper.com.
  22. Web site: Nigerian Literature: Four Deaths and an Elegy . 2022-05-17 . Wasafiri Magazine . en-GB.
  23. Web site: Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #ENDSARS Anthology Presents Powerful Protest Poetry Against Police Brutality . 2022-05-17 . brittlepaper.com.
  24. Web site: 2022-02-15 . #EndSARS: Poets preserve memory of 'Sorosoke' protest in new anthology . 2022-05-17 . en-GB.
  25. Web site: 2021-03-30 . An Endless Pursuit of a Perfect World . 2022-05-17 . The Shallow Tales Review . en-US.
  26. Web site: admin . 2021-01-08 . IN THE SPOTLIGHT: AN INTERVIEW WITH RASAQ MALIK GBOLAHAN . 2022-05-17 . Words Rhymes & Rhythm . en-US.
  27. Web site: africaindialogue . 2017-06-23 . Brunel International African Poetry Prize Shortlists: A Dialogue With Rasaq Malik . 2022-05-17 . Africa in Dialogue . en-US.
  28. Web site: 2017-06-01 . A Conversation with Rasaq Malik . 2022-05-17 . Gainsayer . en-US.
  29. Web site: News Rattle: Poetry . 2022-05-17 . www.rattle.com.
  30. Web site: Brunel International African Poetry Prize Awarded to Nigeria's Romeo Oriogun . 2022-05-17 . www.brunel.ac.uk . en-GB.
  31. Web site: Winners, Shortlists & Judges – The African Poetry Prize . 2022-05-17 . en-GB.
  32. Web site: The 2018 Sillerman First Book Prize Awarded to Botswana's Tjawangwa Dema, for Her "The Careless Seamstress" . 2022-05-17 . brittlepaper.com.
  33. Web site: Young writers expand frontiers of Nigerian literature on social media . 2022-09-05 . en-GB.

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