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Features
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
Written last year, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is about a Nigerian artist in love and grief. Outlier Society is Michael B. Jordan’s company.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
The selections, says the chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo, are “gloriously varied and thematically rich . . . and grapple with society’s big issues expressed through thrilling storytelling.”
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Their short stories will appear in The Best Short Stories Anthology 2021, guest-edited and introduced by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Being selected is “a thrill,” Ezeano says.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
“Osman’s dazzling and incisive poetry creates vibrant connections between generations of women,” said the committee. “Folarin’s fable-like novel is painful in its examination of the way ready-made beliefs are overlaid onto the minds of children.”
Books
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The issue features Pwaangulongii Dauod, Bertille Mbarga, Géraldin Mpesse, Nelson Kamkuimo, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, JK Anowe, and Lebohang Mojapelo.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
It is the author and photographer’s eighth book and second collection of essays.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
“The truth is, I’ve been trying to write this novel for years,” the British Sudanese author tells us. “I wanted to write about the impact of cultural fascism on artists, painters and musicians.”
by Ernest Ogunyemi
The text and photographic sequences are in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as the contemporary photographers Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover.
With Society of Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN), two publishers, Anwuli Ojogwu of Narrative Landscape and Enajite Efemuaye, formerly of Kachifo, are laying foundation for the future.
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
Events
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Their session, “Collective Threads: Digital Connectivity, Creative Power & Global Black Activism,” includes Sena Voncujovi, co-founder of Jaspora, and moderator Zoe Ramushu.
by Uchenna Emelife
The acclaimed Nigerian poet and pianist will discuss his poetry collections, Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts and Waterman.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
Inspired by the rediscovery of his first published short story in 1996, the publications begin a critical revival of the titanic writer’s fiction.
Opportunities
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The £4,000 initiative, for women and non-binary debut authors influenced by Walter Rodney, comes with publication.
by Africa Risen
“A celebration of African storytelling,” the anthology’s other co-editors are Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, who previously co-edited Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.
by Creative Africa
The 6-month fellowship, which “invokes the power of narrative to shift perceptions,” is open to writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama.
Community
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The Booker Prize winner appears on the first song off There Is No End, a posthumous album celebrating the late Afrobeat drummer.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie was the first female registrar of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her passing comes eight months after her husband’s.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
“I knew it was a strange book,” he writes. “What did I hope for it? That it would find a few good readers.”
Her novels, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze and the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King, explore the Revolution and the Italo-Abyssinian War. Now, with Project 3541, she is building a photography archive.
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
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