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by Emmanuel Esomnofu
“This year’s short story prize was centred on Identity,” the organisers said. “The judges selected stories that were original, well crafted, and reflected the theme of the prize.”
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Two of the finalists appear in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The Ugandan writer receives $500 for her first published poem “highlighting the importance of foremothers and women’s land rights in Uganda.”
by Ernest Ogunyemi
It is “one of the crucial places to make archival, research, literary content in Yorùbá available to the general public, scholars, and students,” the Nigerian linguist and writer says.
Books
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
“I wanted to write a book that seeks to find wonder in the least likely of places,” said Turaki, whose writing earned praise from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Gbolahan’s The Other Names of Grief, which “shows us the way to survival,” and Gaji’s The Script of Bruises, about “space and belonging,” are now available in Nigeria.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
“Everywhere else gets romanticised, what about Mombasa?” she said of her debut novel, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October 2021.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The novel in verse is the Sudanese poet’s first work of fiction.
How Hamish Hamilton’s 24-year-old Nigerian British talent went from a historic heading of an Oxford college to editing Booker Prize winners Bernardine Evaristo and Marlon James, to broadening her diversity advocacy.
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
Events
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The editor will be in conversation with 10 “exceptional” debut authors “whose range of narratives reflect the literary landscape of 2021.”
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
Watch season 2’s pilot with the South African writer in which they discuss writing, race, xenophobia, and filmmaking.
by A Long House
Their conversation, “The Root of Nations,” will re-examine what it means to formulate a state via the incredibly important but rarely considered female gaze.
Opportunities
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
The London-based press published Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer.
by Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)
It will be facilitated by accomplished experts including Otosirieze Obi-Young, Omolola Opatayo, and Anwuli Ojogwu, co-founder of SBMEN.
by Praxis Magazine
Praxis Magazine invites all creatives partaking in this fight to submit non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and visual art on the momentous protests.
Community
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.”
by Ernest Ogunyemi
This Twitter trend has hot writers showing off.
Inspired by anticolonialist feminist movements, the Nigerian performer set out to honour them in community-centered theatre. Her latest show is Story Story.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
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