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May 30, 2022

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber on Fantasy & the Character of Kenyan Writing

“I needed to write something that takes advantage of the rich nuances in my own culture,” said the Graywolf Press Africa Prize-winning author of The House of Rust.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber by TJ Benson.

November 25, 2024

A Navy Pilot Pivoted to Writing, Spurred by Surrealists

While flying military helicopters, Umar Abubakar Sidi wrote the two top-selling poetry books in Nigeria. Now he has a novel. One day, he will write about military life: “It is a reality I cannot escape.”
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
Umar Abubakar Sidi's two collections were the Nos. 1 and 2 bestselling poetry books in Nigeria.

November 15, 2024

Abi Daré Claims Her Space

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice and And So I Roar on her writing process.
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu
Abi Dare. Supplied.

October 4, 2024

“A Publishing Event Ten Years in the Making”: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Announces Fourth Novel: Dream Count

Billed as “a publishing event ten years in the making,” the wildly anticipated book is the story of four women in Nigeria, America, and elsewhere.
Ada Nnadi
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

August 5, 2024

A Lack in Liberian Literature

There is no literary bookstore in Africa’s oldest modern country. But, after civil wars and an epidemic, its writers are writing, and hoping.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
A group of Liberian writers attend a reading at the University of Liberia in 2022.

July 29, 2024

A Tech Startup Took on the Gender Gap

Otosirieze
Tech4Her Africa team at their office

July 26, 2024

Aiwanose Odafen’s Duology of Womanhood

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.
Iheoma Uzomba
Aiwanose Odafen for Open Country Mag

July 25, 2024

Ebrohimie Road, Reviewed: A Literary Legend as Father & Husband

Centred on his former Ibadan residence, family memories of a young militant Wole Soyinka casts strange light on his increasingly contentious legacy as an activist.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

May 16, 2024

The Doek Literary Festival in Namibia Announces 2024 Lineup

Doek! Magazine

March 28, 2024

Momtaza Mehri’s Fluid Diasporas

Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world — and her place in it as a Muslim Somali woman.
Iheoma Uzomba
Momtaza Mehri for Open Country Mag.

March 6, 2024

A Poet Imagines Dreams for the Displaced

In Exodus, his debut collection, ‘Gbenga Adeoba threads the histories, migrations, and traumas of people forced to sea.
Iheoma Uzomba
Gbenga Adeoba by Timilehin Alake.

March 1, 2024

Inventing Ńdébé, an Indigenous Script for the Igbo Language

Otosirieze
A page from Ńdébé: A Modern Igbo Writing System.

January 11, 2024

The 60 Notable Books of 2023

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, and Leila Aboulela to DK Nnuro, Momtaza Mehri, and Fatin Abbas: the notable books of 2023 by Africans.
Open Country Mag
Open Country Mag: The Notable Books of 2023

December 28, 2023

Our Top Stories of 2023

Otosirieze
Evelyne Ily as Prisca in Mami Wata

November 28, 2023

The Overlapping Realisms of Eloghosa Osunde

In their debut novel-in-stories Vagabonds!, the Nigerian writer and visual artist pursues an alternate reality of their mind, taking on, among other subjects, social normalcy, gender, and queerness.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
Eloghosa Osunde. Supplied.

November 28, 2023

DK Nnuro Finds His Answers

The Ghanaian American author of What Napoleon Could Not Do, a summer reading pick by Barack Obama, has been thinking about art in our contemporary times.
Adams Adeosun
DK Nnuro

October 4, 2023

Jericho Brown & Bassey Ikpi to Headline Lagos International Poetry Festival

Uchenna Emelife
Jericho Brown.

October 3, 2023

“You Have to Celebrate Writers While They’re Alive”: Labone Dialogues Is the Year’s Big Event in African Literature

Headlined by a quartet of feted veteran voices in Wole Soyinka, Aminatta Forna, Jennifer Makumbi, and Chris Abani, NYU Accra’s 30-author symposium is a convergence of inspiration. “We have to tell our own story,” said convener and school director Chike Frankie Edozien.
Otosirieze
Jennifer Makumbi

June 13, 2023

Binyavanga Wainaina’s Great Scatter of Work (Exclusive)

How to Write About Africa gathers vivid, powerful essays and fiction by the late Kenyan icon. Its editor Achal Prabhala talks compiling it, a second posthumous book, and an uncompleted novel. “Much is made of what he did for other writers, but it was his own writing that did it for me,” he said.
Otosirieze
Binyavanga Wainaina by Allan Gichigi.

May 24, 2023

Night of Upsets at the AMVCAs: Full List of Winners and Nominees

Chidi Mokeme and Nse Ikpe-Etim were snubbed in a near shut-out of Netflix series Shanty Town, with Tobi Bakre scooping a shock Best Drama Actor victory as Brotherhood swept its categories. Perennial Best Comedy Actress champ Funke Akindele also lost for the first time in five years while Anikulapo won Best Overall Movie.
Otosirieze
Osas Ighodaro in tears after retaining her AMVCAs Best Drama Actress crown.

May 30, 2022

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber by TJ Benson.

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber on Fantasy & the Character of Kenyan Writing

“I needed to write something that takes advantage of the rich nuances in my own culture,” said the Graywolf Press Africa Prize-winning author of The House of Rust.
Paula Willie-Okafor

November 25, 2024

Umar Abubakar Sidi's two collections were the Nos. 1 and 2 bestselling poetry books in Nigeria.

A Navy Pilot Pivoted to Writing, Spurred by Surrealists

While flying military helicopters, Umar Abubakar Sidi wrote the two top-selling poetry books in Nigeria. Now he has a novel. One day, he will write about military life: “It is a reality I cannot escape.”
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

November 15, 2024

Abi Dare. Supplied.

Abi Daré Claims Her Space

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice and And So I Roar on her writing process.
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu

October 4, 2024

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“A Publishing Event Ten Years in the Making”: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Announces Fourth Novel: Dream Count

Billed as “a publishing event ten years in the making,” the wildly anticipated book is the story of four women in Nigeria, America, and elsewhere.
Ada Nnadi

August 5, 2024

A group of Liberian writers attend a reading at the University of Liberia in 2022.

A Lack in Liberian Literature

There is no literary bookstore in Africa’s oldest modern country. But, after civil wars and an epidemic, its writers are writing, and hoping.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

July 29, 2024

Tech4Her Africa team at their office

A Tech Startup Took on the Gender Gap

Otosirieze

July 26, 2024

Aiwanose Odafen for Open Country Mag

Aiwanose Odafen’s Duology of Womanhood

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.
Iheoma Uzomba

July 25, 2024

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

Ebrohimie Road, Reviewed: A Literary Legend as Father & Husband

Centred on his former Ibadan residence, family memories of a young militant Wole Soyinka casts strange light on his increasingly contentious legacy as an activist.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

May 16, 2024

The Doek Literary Festival in Namibia Announces 2024 Lineup

Doek! Magazine

March 28, 2024

Momtaza Mehri for Open Country Mag.

Momtaza Mehri’s Fluid Diasporas

Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world — and her place in it as a Muslim Somali woman.
Iheoma Uzomba

March 6, 2024

Gbenga Adeoba by Timilehin Alake.

A Poet Imagines Dreams for the Displaced

In Exodus, his debut collection, ‘Gbenga Adeoba threads the histories, migrations, and traumas of people forced to sea.
Iheoma Uzomba

March 1, 2024

A page from Ńdébé: A Modern Igbo Writing System.

Inventing Ńdébé, an Indigenous Script for the Igbo Language

Otosirieze

January 11, 2024

Open Country Mag: The Notable Books of 2023

The 60 Notable Books of 2023

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, and Leila Aboulela to DK Nnuro, Momtaza Mehri, and Fatin Abbas: the notable books of 2023 by Africans.
Open Country Mag

December 28, 2023

Evelyne Ily as Prisca in Mami Wata

Our Top Stories of 2023

Otosirieze

November 28, 2023

Eloghosa Osunde. Supplied.

The Overlapping Realisms of Eloghosa Osunde

In their debut novel-in-stories Vagabonds!, the Nigerian writer and visual artist pursues an alternate reality of their mind, taking on, among other subjects, social normalcy, gender, and queerness.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

November 28, 2023

DK Nnuro

DK Nnuro Finds His Answers

The Ghanaian American author of What Napoleon Could Not Do, a summer reading pick by Barack Obama, has been thinking about art in our contemporary times.
Adams Adeosun

October 4, 2023

Jericho Brown.

Jericho Brown & Bassey Ikpi to Headline Lagos International Poetry Festival

Uchenna Emelife

October 3, 2023

Jennifer Makumbi

“You Have to Celebrate Writers While They’re Alive”: Labone Dialogues Is the Year’s Big Event in African Literature

Headlined by a quartet of feted veteran voices in Wole Soyinka, Aminatta Forna, Jennifer Makumbi, and Chris Abani, NYU Accra’s 30-author symposium is a convergence of inspiration. “We have to tell our own story,” said convener and school director Chike Frankie Edozien.
Otosirieze

June 13, 2023

Binyavanga Wainaina by Allan Gichigi.

Binyavanga Wainaina’s Great Scatter of Work (Exclusive)

How to Write About Africa gathers vivid, powerful essays and fiction by the late Kenyan icon. Its editor Achal Prabhala talks compiling it, a second posthumous book, and an uncompleted novel. “Much is made of what he did for other writers, but it was his own writing that did it for me,” he said.
Otosirieze

May 24, 2023

Osas Ighodaro in tears after retaining her AMVCAs Best Drama Actress crown.

Night of Upsets at the AMVCAs: Full List of Winners and Nominees

Chidi Mokeme and Nse Ikpe-Etim were snubbed in a near shut-out of Netflix series Shanty Town, with Tobi Bakre scooping a shock Best Drama Actor victory as Brotherhood swept its categories. Perennial Best Comedy Actress champ Funke Akindele also lost for the first time in five years while Anikulapo won Best Overall Movie.
Otosirieze

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