Climatophosis is a digital poetry expressed in French and English. It’s inspired by the current climate change in the world. In fact, its title is coined from climate and metamorphosis i.e. change of climate. It affects rainfall in the North-Eastern Nigeria. Noticeably, for about two decades ago, it has been raining from May to October with little rainfall but now it’s from June to November with rainfall volumes increased to the extent that new variety of crops are needed to fit the new climate. In this case, Climatophosis is all about who is to be blamed for climate change? –It is the same humanity that refuses to respect the nature. On the other hand, nature is renewing itself because it’s worn-out. This is a call for masses to respect nature and be freed from the consequences of climate change.
Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, novelist, playwright, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, 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 DHAward2020 as the best use Digital humanities for fun) etc. He is a Curator of MAELD & ADELD, Director of AELA & ADELI, 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.
