Logan February describes their poems as “self-portraits in a foreign tongue.” In their poetic practice of mental voodoo between èdè Yorùbá and English, precolonial, gender-fluid West African traditions meet the queer discourses of today and create entirely new forms of analogy magic. Logan February was born in 1999 in Anambra, Nigeria. In addition to writing poetry, essays, and song lyrics, Logan February is an LGBTQI+ activist. February studied psychology at the University of Ibadan and creative writing at Purdue University. Currently, Logan February resides in Berlin as a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. A selection of poems was first published in German in 2024 under the title Mental Voodoo in a translation by the poet Christian Filips. Mental Voodoo is “a bold and stubborn song of praise to black, queer bodies. Biting and lively. Multi-layered and conceptual poetry, with confessional undertones and fatalistic intentions”, says Nigerian poet Dami Ajayi. This event is organised in cooperation with DAAD Künstlerprogramm.