The Poet and the Poem
2026-27 Series

Featured Kadija George Sesay

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Kadija George Sesay is a Sierra Leone/British scholar-activist and poet. Her poetry collection is Irki. She has edited several poetry anthologies, the next one is Black Radical: The Political Poetry of Black Britain, co-edited by the late Benjamin Zephaniah. She has judged the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the Jhalak Prize for Poetry. She is a 2025-6 Fulbright Fellow at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress and Howard University.

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