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October 2, 2022

In His Forthcoming Third Novel, Chigozie Obioma Takes a Stab at the Biafran War

The Road to the Country, the Nigerian’s third novel announcement in seven years, is part of a two-book deal, and has been compared to Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Chigozie Obioma. From Sidewalk Citizen.

January 11, 2021

Get Published in Of This Our Country, with Chimamanda Adichie & Chigozie Obioma

The anthology comes with an essay contest, a chance to be featured alongside Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Abi Daré, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Inua Ellams.
Otosirieze
Some writers featured in Of This Our Country.

January 9, 2021

Chigozie Obioma, Twice Booker Prize Finalist, on Judging the 2021 Prize

Shortlisted for his first two novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, the Nigerian writer tells us what the prize means to him and what he will look out for on the panel.
Otosirieze
Chigozie Obioma. From Sidewalk Citizen.

January 16, 2025

60 Notable Books of 2024

From Chigozie Obioma, Sulaiman Addonia, Reem Gafar, and Dinaw Mengestu to Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Abi Dare, and Nadifa Mohamed: the notable books of 2024 by Africans.
Open Country Mag
The Best African Books of 2024

January 26, 2024

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

January 17, 2023

Apply to Oxbelly’s Episodic Program and Retreat for Literary and TV Writers

The inaugural Oxbelly Writers Retreat is led by Program Director Chigozie Obioma and includes Kwame Dawes among the instructors.
Open Country Mag

September 7, 2022

Booker Prize: NoViolet Bulawayo Is the First Woman to Be Shortlisted for Her First Two Novels

With Glory, the Zimbabwean joins Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma and India’s Rohinton Mistry in an elite group.
Otosirieze
NoViolet Bulawayo

February 27, 2025

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2024: Presented with Open Country Mag

Releasing the third annual compilation of the only bestseller list in Nigerian literature: comprising the Top 100 books of the year, alongside the Top 50 in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, self-published, and children’s books.
Otosirieze
The Rovingheights x Open Country Mag Bestseller List 2024

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.
Otosirieze
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 11, 2023

Anticipated Books of 2023

From Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ben Okri, and Leila Aboulela to Sarah Ladipo Manyika and Ayobami Adebayo, here are the over 100 books expected to lead the literary conversation this year.
Open Country Mag
The Anticipated Books of 2023

December 13, 2022

The Gentle Defiance of Chinelo Okparanta

With Happiness, Like Water and Under the Udala Trees, she helped herald LGBTQ visibility in Nigerian literature. With Harry Sylvester Bird, she still isn’t looking to satisfy society. “I think, sometimes, it takes time for people to digest what literature is really doing,” the literary icon says.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Chinelo Okparanta by Onyinye Ihezukwu.

November 4, 2022

How Centre for Memories Conserves Igbo History and Culture

The Enugu-based hub, whose exhibitions, screenings, and lecture series have drawn 7,000 visitors, is, executive director Iheanyi Igboko says, “grooming a generation of young people who are not only grounded in their history and culture but proud of their Igbo identity.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
A visitor at Centre for Memories, Enugu.

October 31, 2022

Nollywood Has a Storytelling Problem. Adapting These 20 Novels Can Help.

Nigerian literature has the global acclaim that Nigerian cinema need only draw from. But will filmmakers look?
Emmanuel Esomnofu
A scene from Half of a Yellow Sun film

July 28, 2022

NoViolet Bulawayo’s Political Allegory Glory on Booker Prize Longlist

It is the Zimbabwean’s second novel to be longlisted, after her 2013 debut We Need New Names reached the shortlist.
Uzoma Ihejirika
NoViolet Bulawayo

July 23, 2022

In Conversation with Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

The influential Chinese American novelist on running the famed program, new African writing, MFAs, literary genres, and her novel The Family Chao. “There is the possibility of creating the conversation that brings in as many voices as possible,” she said of the Workshop.
Otosirieze
Lan Samantha Chang by IfeOluwa Nihinlola

April 9, 2022

Why Tobi Eyinade Built Rovingheights, Nigeria’s Biggest Literary Bookstore

The Future Award Africa Prize-nominated co-founder on the business of bookselling.
Socrates Mbamalu
Tobi Eyinade for Open Country Mag.

February 12, 2022

The Methods of Damon Galgut

How the South African naturalist, a prodigy, innovated major work on masculinity, race, memory, and time—and then, at the tip of his 40-year career, came the Booker Prize.
Otosirieze
Damon Galgut by Michaela Verity

January 4, 2022

Inside Chinese Publishers’ Growing Interest in African Literature

Since the 1980s, 106 African authors and 269 titles have been translated into the Chinese. Here, an insider provides an overview of the last two years, and a preview of 2022.
Bruce Humes
The Chinese edition of Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's Mémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine), released in 2020. Credit: Sohu.com.

December 23, 2021

Booker Prize Winner Damon Galgut in Conversation with Diane Rehm

Their chat will be on Zoom.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony in London, Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. South African writer Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for fiction for “The Promise”. (David Parry/PA via AP)

November 3, 2021

Damon Galgut Takes Booker Prize for The Promise

The South African stylist, the fifth African to win, had previously been shortlisted twice. The judges called his winning ninth novel “a strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself.”
Otosirieze
Author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony in London, Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. South African writer Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for fiction for “The Promise”. (David Parry/PA via AP)

October 2, 2022

Chigozie Obioma. From Sidewalk Citizen.

In His Forthcoming Third Novel, Chigozie Obioma Takes a Stab at the Biafran War

The Road to the Country, the Nigerian’s third novel announcement in seven years, is part of a two-book deal, and has been compared to Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front.
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 11, 2021

Some writers featured in Of This Our Country.

Get Published in Of This Our Country, with Chimamanda Adichie & Chigozie Obioma

The anthology comes with an essay contest, a chance to be featured alongside Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Abi Daré, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Inua Ellams.
Otosirieze

January 9, 2021

Chigozie Obioma. From Sidewalk Citizen.

Chigozie Obioma, Twice Booker Prize Finalist, on Judging the 2021 Prize

Shortlisted for his first two novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, the Nigerian writer tells us what the prize means to him and what he will look out for on the panel.
Otosirieze

January 16, 2025

The Best African Books of 2024

60 Notable Books of 2024

From Chigozie Obioma, Sulaiman Addonia, Reem Gafar, and Dinaw Mengestu to Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Abi Dare, and Nadifa Mohamed: the notable books of 2024 by Africans.
Open Country Mag

January 26, 2024

Open Country Mag: The Anticipated Books of 2024

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

January 17, 2023

Apply to Oxbelly’s Episodic Program and Retreat for Literary and TV Writers

The inaugural Oxbelly Writers Retreat is led by Program Director Chigozie Obioma and includes Kwame Dawes among the instructors.
Open Country Mag

September 7, 2022

NoViolet Bulawayo

Booker Prize: NoViolet Bulawayo Is the First Woman to Be Shortlisted for Her First Two Novels

With Glory, the Zimbabwean joins Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma and India’s Rohinton Mistry in an elite group.
Otosirieze

February 27, 2025

The Rovingheights x Open Country Mag Bestseller List 2024

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2024: Presented with Open Country Mag

Releasing the third annual compilation of the only bestseller list in Nigerian literature: comprising the Top 100 books of the year, alongside the Top 50 in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, self-published, and children’s books.
Otosirieze

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.
Otosirieze

February 11, 2023

The Anticipated Books of 2023

Anticipated Books of 2023

From Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ben Okri, and Leila Aboulela to Sarah Ladipo Manyika and Ayobami Adebayo, here are the over 100 books expected to lead the literary conversation this year.
Open Country Mag

December 13, 2022

Chinelo Okparanta by Onyinye Ihezukwu.

The Gentle Defiance of Chinelo Okparanta

With Happiness, Like Water and Under the Udala Trees, she helped herald LGBTQ visibility in Nigerian literature. With Harry Sylvester Bird, she still isn’t looking to satisfy society. “I think, sometimes, it takes time for people to digest what literature is really doing,” the literary icon says.
Paula Willie-Okafor

November 4, 2022

A visitor at Centre for Memories, Enugu.

How Centre for Memories Conserves Igbo History and Culture

The Enugu-based hub, whose exhibitions, screenings, and lecture series have drawn 7,000 visitors, is, executive director Iheanyi Igboko says, “grooming a generation of young people who are not only grounded in their history and culture but proud of their Igbo identity.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

October 31, 2022

A scene from Half of a Yellow Sun film

Nollywood Has a Storytelling Problem. Adapting These 20 Novels Can Help.

Nigerian literature has the global acclaim that Nigerian cinema need only draw from. But will filmmakers look?
Emmanuel Esomnofu

July 28, 2022

NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo’s Political Allegory Glory on Booker Prize Longlist

It is the Zimbabwean’s second novel to be longlisted, after her 2013 debut We Need New Names reached the shortlist.
Uzoma Ihejirika

July 23, 2022

Lan Samantha Chang by IfeOluwa Nihinlola

In Conversation with Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

The influential Chinese American novelist on running the famed program, new African writing, MFAs, literary genres, and her novel The Family Chao. “There is the possibility of creating the conversation that brings in as many voices as possible,” she said of the Workshop.
Otosirieze

April 9, 2022

Tobi Eyinade for Open Country Mag.

Why Tobi Eyinade Built Rovingheights, Nigeria’s Biggest Literary Bookstore

The Future Award Africa Prize-nominated co-founder on the business of bookselling.
Socrates Mbamalu

February 12, 2022

Damon Galgut by Michaela Verity

The Methods of Damon Galgut

How the South African naturalist, a prodigy, innovated major work on masculinity, race, memory, and time—and then, at the tip of his 40-year career, came the Booker Prize.
Otosirieze

January 4, 2022

The Chinese edition of Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's Mémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine), released in 2020. Credit: Sohu.com.

Inside Chinese Publishers’ Growing Interest in African Literature

Since the 1980s, 106 African authors and 269 titles have been translated into the Chinese. Here, an insider provides an overview of the last two years, and a preview of 2022.
Bruce Humes

December 23, 2021

Author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony in London, Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. South African writer Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for fiction for “The Promise”. (David Parry/PA via AP)

Booker Prize Winner Damon Galgut in Conversation with Diane Rehm

Their chat will be on Zoom.
Paula Willie-Okafor

November 3, 2021

Author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony in London, Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. South African writer Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for fiction for “The Promise”. (David Parry/PA via AP)

Damon Galgut Takes Booker Prize for The Promise

The South African stylist, the fifth African to win, had previously been shortlisted twice. The judges called his winning ninth novel “a strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself.”
Otosirieze

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