When we're writing about a moment, we need to find a poetic form that feels special to us. This is especially important when there are signs that the world is falling apart. Poetry can be used to connect with people in difficult times. Poems can be beautiful and can help people feel better. Poetry can give us identity and voice to protest and to spark revolutions.In today’s episode of the Literify podcast, we are pleased and honored to host Nnane Ntube, a Cameroonian-born poet and critic. Nnane is creatively driven poet with the vision to use poetry for socio-political advocacy.  She writes about the political crisis affecting the peace and stability of her country. She revisits childhood memories to talk about nature and the environment.  In 2019, Nnane was a panelist at the African Writers Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, where she discussed the role of African poets and writers in combating cultural stereotypes. The same year, she moved to Accra, Ghana, for the YALI leadership training. Her poems have been performed widely in Cameroon by the poetry performance troupe she created in late 2017 called "Breaking Point." Nnane published her first poetry collection, Litany of a Foreign Wife, in 2020 with Spears Media Press. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as Bearing Witness, Ashes and Memories, Best "New" African Poets 2018, The Gifted Pen, Old Love Skin: Voices from Contemporary Africa, and The African Drum. Nnane is also an editor at PoeticAfrica magazine. She is the curator of the Young English Cameroonian Writers Award (YECWA). She coordinated the yearly African Festival of Emerging Writers, which brings together poets and writers from Cameroon and abroad to collaborate and discuss the future of Cameroonian literature in particular and African literature in general. She recently hosted the African Writers Conference in Douala, Cameroon. Nnane is a fervent believer in the African dream.