IMMERSIVE INTERACTIVE DIGITAL AFRICAN ARTS AND POETRY PROJECT (IIDAAPP)

Inspired by Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah, a renowned professor of literature and Vice Chancellor University of Abuja, Nigeria, and also necessity to improve the very limited 3D African contents accessible on the internet, dropping interest and greatly reduced use on African poetic pieces, to spark the interest African poems and modernize poetry publication using emerging technologies. The project digitalizes poetry using immersive and interactive 3D formats for existing and to come contents incorporating sounds, videos as well as interactive animations and games to made especially available in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) meeting with the Metaverse trends. IIDAAPP will encourage more futuristic approaches to oral or written poetry and literature and increase engagement by current, younger and coming generation as well as serve as a platform for distribution of premium works by poets and artist and to create avenue of content creator and scholar to meet, interact and showcase existing works and collaborating of future projects.