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Climatophosis 2.0
Climatophosis 2.0 is the second version of Climatophosis. It is expressed in four languages-French, English, Polish and Margi. It is reconfigured with thunder rumbling sound as a metaphor of destruction. It is played freely on smartphones. Climatophosis 2.0 is inspired by the current climate change in the world along side the role of digital poetry in bettering social ecosystem. Its meaning is coined from climate and metamorphosis i.e. climate change. This climate crisis affects rainfall in the North-Eastern Nigeria, North-Central, and now North West where it snowed precisely in Zaria, Kaduna State, in the fourth quater of year 2022. For about two decades ago, it has been raining from May to October with little rainfall but now it’s changed from June to November with rainfall volumes increased to the extent that new variety of crops are needed to fit the new climate. Moreover, Climatophosis 2.0 is all about us, human beings and our envrionment. We are to be blamed for climate change. Our complex industrial activities don't respect nature. They release chlofluorocarbons (CFCs) into the atmosphire to deplete ozone layer. On the other hand, nature is renewing itself because it’s worn-out. This masterpieace is a call for masses to respect nature and be freed from the consequences of climate change. The consequences of climate change is obvious everywhere. In the same fourth quater of the year 2022, Kafin-Hausa/Jilang, my village was flooded. People lost properties and farms. Click here to read or click at the image of the work by your left -
Yohanna Joseph Waliya, a Nigerian digital ecopoet.
Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, novelist, playwright, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow and UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow. He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La révolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l'Afrique se lèvera (novel), Homosalus (digital poetry), Momenta (digital poetry), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), @KorzakD (Twitterbot playwright), Climatophosis (digital poetry: Winner of the best use Digital humanities tool for fun) etc. He is the Curator of MAELD & ADELD, Director of AELA & ADELI, a lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, University of Calabar as well as a postgraduate student at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. His research interests cover distant writing, Digital Poetry, Twitterbot-poetry, Twitterature, language discourse etc.Margi Version
Mtudili anu nya tsana fa odi, abanku nya ara sah rai! nya ara mchakri imi ar tsadu ga faya melmu chah Mchi a mbul, ga chu, vasu arayu mai. Mji mbelda wu, nanda nga ngel kra china namuyeri, njagu diyu aguri babal ga giu dunya. Ii ga thar akwaba,ga nu, mji ghu afya dunya aku gli kaka su aga mpi chah nanda su misdagu ama nanda a hikyu ivir deda anda. Tsadu a jalva ga nu, mji nyabada du roba yeri. Nduda ga publaba udzayu aga liyaliya gyia, ga tsiya su nga mpi akuyu lang.
Climatopie est un projet du florilège multilingue d'écopoésie numérique créé en 2023 par Yohanna Joseph Waliya, à l'Université de Calabar, Calabar-Nigéria. Climatopie en tant que terme, c'est inventé de mot-valise: climat et utopie, signifiant la perception du monde parfait sans changement climatique ; comme démontré dans les poésies numériques du monde entier. Ce florilège d'écopoésie numérique trie les meilleurs poèmes animés du monde qui sensibilisent la communauté globale du danger de changement climatique ainsi que suggère les moyens artistiques et poétiques de combattre ce phénomène en tandem de la vision culturelle du monde vis-à-vis celle de l'Afrique. Nous sollicitons toujours aux poètes de nous remettre les meilleurs de leurs ouvrages sur le changement climatique pour que nous répertoriions dans cette base de données globale. Nous recensons également les grandes bases de données de poésie numérique pour trier ce genre d'ouvrage afin de les exposer.