Dr. Nick Makoha offers a two-hour creative writing poetry session exploring how Black artists and writers engage visual art as a site of memory, resistance, and imaginative renewal.

Dr. Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London. He is the Founder of Obsidian and His debut Kingdom of Gravity was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and nominated by The Guardian as one of the best books of 2017. A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and Complete Works Alumni. He won the 2015 Brunel prize and 2016 Derricotte & Eady Prize for his pamphlet Resurrection Man. He was the 2019 Writer-in-Residence for The Wordsworth Trust and Wasafiri.

Supported by the British Council’s UK/Kenya Season 2025.