March 16, 2026

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Articles by Yahuza Usman

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Aubade to the Boy Holding Out His Heart as A Way of Survival (September 30, 2024) poem unrhymed
Yahuza Usman [Crawling Writer], the Secretary of Taraba State branch of Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, is a Nigerian award-winning author, essayist, spoken word artiste, book reviewer, Wikimedian, typist, graphic designer, short-story writer, and a versatile poet who has many of his works featured in many literary magazines.
For the Spinal Cord of My Anatomy, I Pray You Grow (October 28, 2024) poem unrhymed
"...My heart became a body of thoughts..."

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Yahuza Usman

Biography

Yahuza Usman [Crawling Writer], the Secretary of Taraba State branch of Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, is a Nigerian award-winning author, essayist, spoken word artiste, book reviewer, Wikimedian, typist, graphic designer, short-story writer, and a versatile poet who has many of his works featured in many literary magazines, including Al-Mir'aatu Magazine, World Voices Magazine, Literary Yard, Itell Stories and Everything Beautiful, ArtingArena, Afrihil Press, Opinion Nigeria, Synchronized Chaos Magazine, The Daily Pointers, Spillwords Press, Cajun Mutt Press, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the first prize winner On-the-spot Non-fiction writing at HIASFEST 2023, and emerged as the most valuable male contestant [star boy] of HIASFEST 2024 after winning three prizes. Yahuza hails from Jalingo and loves to be a responsible husband/father when he grew up. He can be reached via crawlingwriteryahuza@gmail.com or on Facebook: Yahuza Usman, Twitter: @YahuzaUsmanJ, and Instagram: @yahuzausmanj.