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June 3, 2024

Adedayo Agarau Wins Poetic Justice Book Prize for “Achingly Personal, Coming-of-Age” Poems

The Nigerian poet and editor of Agbowo’s “searing” The Years of Blood has “vivid, unsettling imagery drawing on Yoruba cosmology and folklore.” It is forthcoming in Fall 2025.
Otosirieze
Adedayo Agarau wins Poetic Justice Book Prize

March 25, 2021

The Origin of Name by Adedayo Agarau Review—Narrating Grief

In his third chapbook, the Nigerian poet returns to grief. And he’s telling stories.
Ernest Ogunyemi
The Origin of Name by Adedayo Agarau

February 15, 2025

Anticipated Books of 2025

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, and Goretti Kyomuhendo to Tochi Eze, Chisom Okafor, Itiola Jones, and Adedayo Agarau: the anticipated books of 2025.
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu
Anticipated Books of 2025

February 5, 2022

The UnSerious Collective Announces N50,000 Fellowships for Nigerian Poets

The group—poets Adedayo Agarau, Jeremiah Agbaakin, Nome Patrick, Adebayo Kolawole Samuel, Wale Ayinla, Pamilerin Jacob, and Michael Akuchie—is seeking “poetry that is experimental and daring.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
The Origin of Name; photo by Adedayo Agarau.

July 3, 2023

Attend SprinNG’s MFA Orientation Session for African Writers

SprinNG

September 17, 2022

The UnSerious Collective Announces 2022 Fellowship Winners

Each of the five fellows will receive N50,000.
Open Country Mag
The Origin of Name; photo by Adedayo Agarau.

May 13, 2022

The O. Henry Prize Series Opens to African Magazines (Exclusive)

Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on celebrating the short story form and the ripple effect of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s guest-editing role.
Otosirieze
The O. Henry Prize Anthology 2021, guest-edited by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Photo by The O. Henry Prizes.

May 4, 2022

Zimbabwe’s Zibusiso Mpofu Wins 2022 Brunel Prize

The judges praised his “allusive, lyrical poems [which] open a new itinerary in African poetry, drawing in Shona and Mandarin and mapping a journey of the Black body through India, Hong Kong, the Philippines and China.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Zibusiso Mpofu

April 6, 2022

Romeo Oriogun Wrested Poetry from Pain

From the streets of Benin City to The New Yorker, a young working-class Nigerian writer scaled obstacles and became a defining voice in African poetry.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Romeo Oriogun for Open Country Mag.

March 22, 2022

The Brunel Prize Announces 2022 Shortlist of 7 Poets

The judges praised the finalists as “African voices liberated from prescriptions of form and ideas.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Adedayo Agarau, the new editor-in-chief of Agbowo Magazine.

February 14, 2022

28 Writers Go Deep into Love, in Art and Life

For Valentine’s Day, we asked 28 writers—deep readers and consumers of art—to share the literary, cinematic, musical, and life stories that affect them. They opened up beautifully.
Open Country Mag
A still from the film Rafiki, directed by Wanuri Kahiu and based on Monica Arac de Nyeko's short story Jambula Tree

January 28, 2022

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole Review — For Humanity and Its Art

In Cole’s second essay collection and eighth book, there is his trademark assortment of angles to complex views. His subjects are immersed autobiographically, and he bears witness.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole

January 18, 2022

Exodus by Gbenga Adeoba Review—Witnessing Loss and Histories

The Nigerian poet shows perplexities with measured control and composure—a detached storyteller with the simple yet daring assignment of pointing “humanity to the loss of itself.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Exodus by Gbenga Adeoba

January 4, 2022

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo Review—What Does It Mean for a Woman to Reclaim Herself?

A mixed-race woman’s search for her father in a fictional country.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

September 13, 2021

Inside Agbowó, a Nigerian Literary and Arts Hub

With a literary magazine, an events platform ArtsnChill, and a new online publishing arm, an arts organisation, Agbowó, continues “to hold a space where it is unnecessary to be someone else.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
At an ArtsnChill event, organized by Agbowo, where the poet Dami Ajayi read. Credit: ArtsnChill.

July 28, 2021

The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub Review—Sudanese Music & Displacement

Even with its serious subject, the novel finds balance through sustained humor and is enhanced by Mahjoub’s ear for dialogue.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub

July 12, 2021

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Review—Oil Politics in a Tussling Village

The Cameroonian’s second novel incorporates storytelling elements from the Old Testament, where the destinies of marginalized peoples are entrenched in the communal and the spiritual.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

May 13, 2021

The Rinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza — An Exciting Achievement in Intertextual Poetry

In his debut collection, the well-read Zambian poet samples artists and fuses forms, resulting in a remarkable conversation of influences, a homage.
Ernest Ogunyemi
The Rinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza

April 15, 2021

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun Review—An Originative Work by an Epochal Poet

In his debut collection, the Nigerian poet exults in the beauty of queer bodies even in pain. His voice is prophetic and tourist, filled with experience and wonder.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun

February 1, 2021

The Writer. The Writing. In Tweets.

This Twitter trend has hot writers showing off.
Ernest Ogunyemi
The poet Adedayo Agarau. From @adedayo_agarau.

June 3, 2024

Adedayo Agarau wins Poetic Justice Book Prize

Adedayo Agarau Wins Poetic Justice Book Prize for “Achingly Personal, Coming-of-Age” Poems

The Nigerian poet and editor of Agbowo’s “searing” The Years of Blood has “vivid, unsettling imagery drawing on Yoruba cosmology and folklore.” It is forthcoming in Fall 2025.
Otosirieze

March 25, 2021

The Origin of Name by Adedayo Agarau

The Origin of Name by Adedayo Agarau Review—Narrating Grief

In his third chapbook, the Nigerian poet returns to grief. And he’s telling stories.
Ernest Ogunyemi

February 15, 2025

Anticipated Books of 2025

Anticipated Books of 2025

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, and Goretti Kyomuhendo to Tochi Eze, Chisom Okafor, Itiola Jones, and Adedayo Agarau: the anticipated books of 2025.
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu

February 5, 2022

The Origin of Name; photo by Adedayo Agarau.

The UnSerious Collective Announces N50,000 Fellowships for Nigerian Poets

The group—poets Adedayo Agarau, Jeremiah Agbaakin, Nome Patrick, Adebayo Kolawole Samuel, Wale Ayinla, Pamilerin Jacob, and Michael Akuchie—is seeking “poetry that is experimental and daring.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

July 3, 2023

Attend SprinNG’s MFA Orientation Session for African Writers

SprinNG

September 17, 2022

The Origin of Name; photo by Adedayo Agarau.

The UnSerious Collective Announces 2022 Fellowship Winners

Each of the five fellows will receive N50,000.
Open Country Mag

May 13, 2022

The O. Henry Prize Anthology 2021, guest-edited by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Photo by The O. Henry Prizes.

The O. Henry Prize Series Opens to African Magazines (Exclusive)

Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on celebrating the short story form and the ripple effect of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s guest-editing role.
Otosirieze

May 4, 2022

Zibusiso Mpofu

Zimbabwe’s Zibusiso Mpofu Wins 2022 Brunel Prize

The judges praised his “allusive, lyrical poems [which] open a new itinerary in African poetry, drawing in Shona and Mandarin and mapping a journey of the Black body through India, Hong Kong, the Philippines and China.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 6, 2022

Romeo Oriogun for Open Country Mag.

Romeo Oriogun Wrested Poetry from Pain

From the streets of Benin City to The New Yorker, a young working-class Nigerian writer scaled obstacles and became a defining voice in African poetry.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

March 22, 2022

Adedayo Agarau, the new editor-in-chief of Agbowo Magazine.

The Brunel Prize Announces 2022 Shortlist of 7 Poets

The judges praised the finalists as “African voices liberated from prescriptions of form and ideas.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

February 14, 2022

A still from the film Rafiki, directed by Wanuri Kahiu and based on Monica Arac de Nyeko's short story Jambula Tree

28 Writers Go Deep into Love, in Art and Life

For Valentine’s Day, we asked 28 writers—deep readers and consumers of art—to share the literary, cinematic, musical, and life stories that affect them. They opened up beautifully.
Open Country Mag

January 28, 2022

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole Review — For Humanity and Its Art

In Cole’s second essay collection and eighth book, there is his trademark assortment of angles to complex views. His subjects are immersed autobiographically, and he bears witness.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 18, 2022

Exodus by Gbenga Adeoba

Exodus by Gbenga Adeoba Review—Witnessing Loss and Histories

The Nigerian poet shows perplexities with measured control and composure—a detached storyteller with the simple yet daring assignment of pointing “humanity to the loss of itself.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 4, 2022

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo Review—What Does It Mean for a Woman to Reclaim Herself?

A mixed-race woman’s search for her father in a fictional country.
Ernest Ogunyemi

September 13, 2021

At an ArtsnChill event, organized by Agbowo, where the poet Dami Ajayi read. Credit: ArtsnChill.

Inside Agbowó, a Nigerian Literary and Arts Hub

With a literary magazine, an events platform ArtsnChill, and a new online publishing arm, an arts organisation, Agbowó, continues “to hold a space where it is unnecessary to be someone else.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

July 28, 2021

The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub

The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub Review—Sudanese Music & Displacement

Even with its serious subject, the novel finds balance through sustained humor and is enhanced by Mahjoub’s ear for dialogue.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

July 12, 2021

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Review—Oil Politics in a Tussling Village

The Cameroonian’s second novel incorporates storytelling elements from the Old Testament, where the destinies of marginalized peoples are entrenched in the communal and the spiritual.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

May 13, 2021

The Rinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza

The Rinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza — An Exciting Achievement in Intertextual Poetry

In his debut collection, the well-read Zambian poet samples artists and fuses forms, resulting in a remarkable conversation of influences, a homage.
Ernest Ogunyemi

April 15, 2021

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun Review—An Originative Work by an Epochal Poet

In his debut collection, the Nigerian poet exults in the beauty of queer bodies even in pain. His voice is prophetic and tourist, filled with experience and wonder.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

February 1, 2021

The poet Adedayo Agarau. From @adedayo_agarau.

The Writer. The Writing. In Tweets.

This Twitter trend has hot writers showing off.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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