Anayo Dioha – Ode an die vier Markttage | German Translation

Anayo Dioha
Ode an die vier Markttage
Translated by Antje Bothin

So wie die Jahreszeiten durch das westliche 
Kalenderjahr tanzen, bringst du süße Farben in die Tage meiner Wochen:

Frühling, Sommer, Herbst, Winter;
Eke, Orie, Afọ, Nkwọ!

Anayo Dioha ist Anwalt und Schriftsteller vom Stamm der Igbo in Nigeria. Seine Gedichte wurden online und in gedruckter Form bei The New Verse News, Queen's Quarterly, Password: Very Short Poetry und The Literary Cocktail Magazine veröffentlicht. Er ist derzeit dabei, seine Promotion in Rechtswissenschaften zu machen.

Antje Bothin liebt es, Gedichte zu schreiben und zu übersetzen. Ihre Poesie wurde in internationalen Anthologien, Zeitschriften und Magazinen veröffentlicht. Sie verfasste einen inspirierenden Roman mit dem Titel‚ Annika and the Treasure of Iceland’. Wenn sie nicht gerade kreativ tätig ist, engagiert sie sich ehrenamtlich in der Natur oder trinkt Tee.

The original poem, "Ode to the Four Market Days" by Anayo Dioha is featured in Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration (CivicLeicester, 2024) and is accessible here.

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