Brave New Literatures 2022
/ 19 January 2022
Climatophosis/ KorczakDramatist (@KorczakD)/ Pope Lost Hope
Brave New Literatures Festival
Climatophosis is a digital poetry expressed in French and English. It’s inspired by the current climate change in the world. In fact, this title is coined from climate and metamorphosis i.e. change of climate. It affects rainfall in the North-Eastern Nigeria. Noticeably, for about two decades ago, it has been raining from May to October with little rainfall but now it’s from June to November with rainfall volumes increased to the extent that new variety of crops are needed to fit the new climate.
KorczakDramatist (@KorczakD) is Twitterbot-playwright that generates dialogical and sequential tweets of conversation about children rights in accordance with the Janusz Korczak's concepts and philosophy in the interval of 30 minutes.
Pope lost hope: The world is in chaos because of Covid-19 and climate change, i.e. climatophosis. These two phenomena are the spirits behind this e-poem. “Pope Lost Hope” is a digital poem for the environmental revolution so that no one will despair like the pope again. The pope who is supposed to give his followers hope lost hope, stopped public mass then asked the faithful to communicate direct to the Heavens without priestly intercessions.
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African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Literature (AELA & ADELI)
African Electronic Literature Alliance (AELA) is a Pan-African electronic literature association created to share and engage in discussing African electronic literatures produced by Africans in Africa, in diaspora and even computhors' African e-lits. It is also an organization of all African e-literary and interactive digital art enthusiasts, scholars, independent scholars/artists and postgraduate students across the globe who are projecting African worldviews in interactive digital arts and electronic literatures. Here is our organization/database website: https://africanelit.org
