Face Me I Face You

‘Face Me I Face You’ is the ingenious equivalent of affordable social housing in Nigeria, where rental properties require tenants to share essential facilities and, inadvertently, their most intimate spaces. Oyindamola cleverly exploits this reality in short but punchy laugh-out-loud poems that use wit and humor to tell profound stories about her vibrant and memorable characters.

- Dami Ajayi, Author of A Woman’s Body is Country and Affection & Other Accidents

What’s striking is the refreshing simplicity and engaging clarity of the delivery - an efficient thoroughfare to readers, like a hot knife slicing a bar of butter. In ‘Face Me I Face You, ’ Oyindamola serves an acerbic cocktail of witty humor and unpretentiously clear poems that’ll make purists froth at the mouth, but who cares? The audience for this book will love it, even the ones who don’t like poetry.

- Tolu Akinyemi (Poetolu) Chief Editor, Poetry Journal & Author, Funny Men Cannot be Trusted

Oyindamola Shoola is an award-winning Nigerian-American writer and the co-founder and CEO of Sprinng, a nonprofit organization that empowers African writers. She is also the Editor & Programs Director at Poetry Journal, discovering widely relatable ‘African stories’ from ordinary individual experiences.

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