'When the first shots rang out'

Part of 'Nigerian Pastoral' - a poem by Inua Ellams about a massacre in the town of Baga, committed in January 2015 in Borno state by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Inua was born in Jos, a town in central Nigeria. Now he works as a touring poet and a playwright in London. He is one of 6 artists short-listed for The 2015 Brunel University African Poetry Prize. He has been speaking to Nkem Ifejika.

(Photo credit: ArtValley)