Yohanna Joseph Waliya

Yohanna Joseph Waliya obtained M.A. French Literature (Twitterature;Twitterbot poetry) at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, and python programmer. Waliya is also a lecturer at the Nigeria French Language Village, Ajara-Badagry, Lagos. He is the winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020 , Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, Creator & Curator of MAELD & ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable Mention, C-SKI], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI, International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media [ICWSM ] Virtual Scholar 2021-2022, and Hastac Scholar 2021-2023. He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La récolte de vie (Théâtre), Monde 2.0 (Théâtre), Hégémonie Disparue (Roman), Les Dieux et leurs Subalternes ont Tort (La Poésie philosophique),Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (Roman),Souffrance c'est une grandeur (Roman philosophique), Homosalus (digital poetry), Momenta (digital poetry),ZeroDeath(digital poetry)|ZéroDèces(poésie animée),Truthology(digital poetry) | Véritologie(poésie animée), @TinyKorczak(Twitterbot-poetry),@KorczakD(Twitterbot-playwright), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), Inferno 2.0 (ludokinetic poetry), Cyberpoetry for activism(digital poetry)| Cyberpoésies d'engagement(poésie animée), Letter to the African Union(digital poetry)| Lettre à Union Africaine(poésie animée), Jesus is above Cresus and Zeus| Jésus est au-dessus de Crésus. His research interests cover distant writing, Distant reading, Digital Poetry, Metaversal literature, Twitterbot-poetry , Twitterature, Digital Humanities, language discourse, and training Artificial Intelligence to speak Nigerian Pidgin English.