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October 27, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi’s Poetry Debut, Content Warning: Everything, Arrives 2022

The novelist’s poems “travel from home to homesickness, tracing desire to surrender and abuse to survival.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Akwaeke Emezi - Content Warning: Everything

June 3, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi Covers TIME as a 2021 Next Generation Leader

The Nigerian novelist is, the magazine says, “a storyteller for a changing world.”
Ernest Ogunyemi
Akwaeke Emezi covers TIME. Photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

May 3, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi’s Romance Novel Bought by Outlier Society in 7-Figure Film Deal

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.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Akwaeke Emezi by Frances F. Denny.

January 24, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi’s Debut Memoir, Dear Senthuran, Chronicles the Self & Black Spirituality

The Nigerian novelist’s debut book of nonfiction “weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, and the turmoil of relationships.”
Ernest Ogunyemi
Akwaeke Emezi. From @azemezi on Instagram.

January 26, 2024

The Anticipated Books of 2024

From Chigozie Obioma, Teju Cole, and Akwaeke Emezi to Safia Elhillo, Olumide Popoola, and Tares Oburumu: the anticipated books of 2024.
Open Country Mag
Open Country Mag: The Anticipated Books of 2024

December 29, 2022

The 60 Notable Books of 2022

From Warsan Shire, Romeo Oriogun, and Safia Elhillo to Arinze Ifeakandu, Akwaeke Emezi, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chinelo Okparanta: our second annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.
Open Country Mag
The Notable Books of 2022

December 23, 2021

The Nommo Awards, for African Speculative Fiction, Announces 2021 Winners

Novelist Akwaeke Emezi and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki are among this year’s honorees of the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS).
Paula Willie-Okafor
Akwaeke Emezi. From @azemezi on Instagram.

June 18, 2021

In Fierce Essay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Broken Friendships and “Ideological Orthodoxy”

The piece, “It Is Obscene,” calls out two former students, one being the novelist Akwaeke Emezi, who “publicly insulted” her, “sent emails and texts that were ignored,” and “decided to go on social media to peddle falsehoods.”
Ernest Ogunyemi
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

April 23, 2024

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2023: Presented with Open Country Mag

The 100 bestselling books of 2023 in Nigeria: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, self-published, and children’s books.
Open Country Mag
The top three books on the RH x OCM Bestseller List: Hadiza Bala Usman's Stepping on Toes, Damilare Kuku's Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, and Ayobami Adebayo's A Spell of Good Things.

February 19, 2023

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2022: Presented with Open Country Mag

Announcing the first formal bestseller list in Nigerian literature, covering fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s books, and self-published titles, with an overall Top 100.
Open Country Mag
The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2022: Presented with Open Country Mag

July 28, 2022

Jumi Bello’s Debut Novel Was Dropped for Plagiarism. New Details Show It’s Serial.

An investigative feature in Airmail traced the American Nigerian writer’s history of taking without attribution.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Jumi Bello by Saman Assefi via Airmail.

April 13, 2022

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Curation of African Speculative Fiction

The writer and editor, working from Nigeria, has seen his groundbreaking work with the anthology Dominion earn major acclaim in the US and the UK, including becoming the first Africa-born Black writer to earn a Hugo Award nomination.
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

February 2, 2022

The 50+ Most Anticipated Books of 2022

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Arinze Ifeakandu to Warsan Shire and Romeo Oriogun, here are over 50 books expected to lead the literary conversation.
Open Country Mag
The Anticipated Books of 2022

December 29, 2021

The 60 Notable Books of 2021

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Bernardine Evaristo to Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, our first annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.
Open Country Mag

April 2, 2021

TJ Benson Holds History and Hope

Thirteen years after he started it, his debut novel The Madhouse finally arrives. This chronicle of the ‘90s, set in northern Nigeria, broadens the familiar for the 29-year-old.
Ernest Ogunyemi
TJ Benson by Nelson Apocho.

December 26, 2020

Nigerian Literature Needed Editors. Two Women Stepped in To Groom Them.

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.
Otosirieze
Anwuli Ojogwu. From Anwuli Ojogwu.

December 26, 2020

Arinze Ifeakandu’s Debut, About Queer Nigerian Men, Acquired by A Public Space Books

The Nsukka-educated, Iowa-trained writer hopes for God’s Children Are Little Broken Things to join in “insisting upon [the] existence” of LGBTQ Nigerians.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Arinze Ifeakandu by Santiago Sanchez.

October 27, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi - Content Warning: Everything

Akwaeke Emezi’s Poetry Debut, Content Warning: Everything, Arrives 2022

The novelist’s poems “travel from home to homesickness, tracing desire to surrender and abuse to survival.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

June 3, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi covers TIME. Photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

Akwaeke Emezi Covers TIME as a 2021 Next Generation Leader

The Nigerian novelist is, the magazine says, “a storyteller for a changing world.”
Ernest Ogunyemi

May 3, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi by Frances F. Denny.

Akwaeke Emezi’s Romance Novel Bought by Outlier Society in 7-Figure Film Deal

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.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 24, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi. From @azemezi on Instagram.

Akwaeke Emezi’s Debut Memoir, Dear Senthuran, Chronicles the Self & Black Spirituality

The Nigerian novelist’s debut book of nonfiction “weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, and the turmoil of relationships.”
Ernest Ogunyemi

January 26, 2024

Open Country Mag: The Anticipated Books of 2024

The Anticipated Books of 2024

From Chigozie Obioma, Teju Cole, and Akwaeke Emezi to Safia Elhillo, Olumide Popoola, and Tares Oburumu: the anticipated books of 2024.
Open Country Mag

December 29, 2022

The Notable Books of 2022

The 60 Notable Books of 2022

From Warsan Shire, Romeo Oriogun, and Safia Elhillo to Arinze Ifeakandu, Akwaeke Emezi, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chinelo Okparanta: our second annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.
Open Country Mag

December 23, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi. From @azemezi on Instagram.

The Nommo Awards, for African Speculative Fiction, Announces 2021 Winners

Novelist Akwaeke Emezi and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki are among this year’s honorees of the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS).
Paula Willie-Okafor

June 18, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

In Fierce Essay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Broken Friendships and “Ideological Orthodoxy”

The piece, “It Is Obscene,” calls out two former students, one being the novelist Akwaeke Emezi, who “publicly insulted” her, “sent emails and texts that were ignored,” and “decided to go on social media to peddle falsehoods.”
Ernest Ogunyemi

April 23, 2024

The top three books on the RH x OCM Bestseller List: Hadiza Bala Usman's Stepping on Toes, Damilare Kuku's Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, and Ayobami Adebayo's A Spell of Good Things.

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2023: Presented with Open Country Mag

The 100 bestselling books of 2023 in Nigeria: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, self-published, and children’s books.
Open Country Mag

February 19, 2023

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2022: Presented with Open Country Mag

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2022: Presented with Open Country Mag

Announcing the first formal bestseller list in Nigerian literature, covering fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s books, and self-published titles, with an overall Top 100.
Open Country Mag

July 28, 2022

Jumi Bello by Saman Assefi via Airmail.

Jumi Bello’s Debut Novel Was Dropped for Plagiarism. New Details Show It’s Serial.

An investigative feature in Airmail traced the American Nigerian writer’s history of taking without attribution.
Paula Willie-Okafor

April 13, 2022

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Curation of African Speculative Fiction

The writer and editor, working from Nigeria, has seen his groundbreaking work with the anthology Dominion earn major acclaim in the US and the UK, including becoming the first Africa-born Black writer to earn a Hugo Award nomination.
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

February 2, 2022

The Anticipated Books of 2022

The 50+ Most Anticipated Books of 2022

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Arinze Ifeakandu to Warsan Shire and Romeo Oriogun, here are over 50 books expected to lead the literary conversation.
Open Country Mag

December 29, 2021

The 60 Notable Books of 2021

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Bernardine Evaristo to Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, our first annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.
Open Country Mag

April 2, 2021

TJ Benson by Nelson Apocho.

TJ Benson Holds History and Hope

Thirteen years after he started it, his debut novel The Madhouse finally arrives. This chronicle of the ‘90s, set in northern Nigeria, broadens the familiar for the 29-year-old.
Ernest Ogunyemi

December 26, 2020

Anwuli Ojogwu. From Anwuli Ojogwu.

Nigerian Literature Needed Editors. Two Women Stepped in To Groom Them.

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.
Otosirieze

December 26, 2020

Arinze Ifeakandu by Santiago Sanchez.

Arinze Ifeakandu’s Debut, About Queer Nigerian Men, Acquired by A Public Space Books

The Nsukka-educated, Iowa-trained writer hopes for God’s Children Are Little Broken Things to join in “insisting upon [the] existence” of LGBTQ Nigerians.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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