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Meet our board of editors

Samuel Osho

Creative Director

Samuel Osho is an award-winning writer, a public speaker, and a professional mechanical engineer. You can find some of his works on TheCable, Sahara Reporters, YNaija, ScoopNG, The Manitoban, WRRNG amongst many others.

Osho has a personal blog where he frequently shares his thoughts on writing, life, creative work, and personal development. Find him on social media via @iamsamosho.

Anthony Okpunor

Poetry Editor

Anthony Okpunor is a Nigerian poet and artist. He was shortlisted for the 2019 Nigerian Student Poetry Prize. He was also shortlisted for the SEVHAGE/Angya Poetry Prize 2019. He emerged as the winner of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (poetry category). He was a finalist for the 2020 Palette Spotlight Poetry Award. He was also longlisted for Palette Poetry’s 2020 Emerging Poet Prize. His works have appeared/forthcoming on online platforms including African Writer, Praxis Magazine, The McNeese Review, Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, Rattle, Roadrunner Review, and elsewhere. He can be reached on Twitter @TonyOkpunor

Olakunle Ologunro

Fiction Editor

Olakunle Ologunro is a Nigerian writer. His work has been published in Brittle Paper, Agbowo, the Queer Africa anthology, and the Gerald Kraak anthology for work that provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality. He is an alumnus of the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop and a finalist for the 2020 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship from One Story Magazine. He won the inaugural Kreative Diadem Prize for short fiction.

Nicholas Aderinto

Non-Fiction Editor

Nicholas Aderinto is a young Nigerian who believes in the power of digital media in creating lasting changes in society. He regularly contributes to Tekedia.com as a writer. His works have also appeared on Legit.ng. He was selected to be part of the contributory writers of the Nigerian medical students association in 2018 and was reselected in 2019. He is a Kectil 2020 fellow.

He is a medical student and currently serves as the editor-in-chief at LAUMED JOURNAL CLUB where he works closely with other medical students in publishing journals authored, reviewed, and edited by medical students working under the guidance of Editorial consultants.

Samuella Olaleye

Managing Editor

Samuella Olaleye is a freelance writer and editor with a passion for sharing authentic and relatable stories. She believes in continuous learning and is always focused on honing her skills. She believes that communication is the bedrock of all relationships and as such writing is both a passion and a career for her. She is always looking for new ways for creative expression and this has led her both to volunteer as well as take jobs in copywriting as well as creative writing. She recently has started venturing into scriptwriting as well.

She is the Managing Editor for Kreative Diadem and has worked with different authors and companies in creating quality content.

She can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @thesamuella. Her work can be found on pristine7.wordpress.com and on Medium as Samuella Beth

Blessing Bulus

Video Editor

Blessing Bulus is a passionate storyteller. She believes in the power of storytelling as a tool for change in the society: government, development, education and further inspires storytelling.

She acquired a degree in Mass Communications in the Nigeria Institute of Journalism, Lagos and a diploma in Film/ TV production from Multichoice Talent Factory/Pan-Atlantic University. Her skills span a wide range of fields, from producing, cinematography, costuming to production management to editing and across the spectrum.