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August 4, 2022

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.

July 25, 2022

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.

January 12, 2022

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.

June 25, 2021

​Watch editors Troy Onyango and Rémy Ngamije talk online magazine publishing in Africa. The Instagram Live conversation, to be moderated by Frances Ogamba, is Open Country Mag’s first public event.

June 25, 2021

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.

January 23, 2021

. . . to be guest-edited by Elfreda Tetteh, Akhim Alexis, and Stephanie Wanga.

December 26, 2020

Guest-edited by Gbenga Adesina, Mapule Mohulatsi, and Esther Karin Mngodo, it features fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 19 contributors.

December 29, 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.

November 4, 2022

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.

July 4, 2022

The initiative, founded by the Nigerian novelist Suyi Davies Okungbowa, offers $500 to writers “to buy time, space, and resources” for their work.

May 13, 2022

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

April 9, 2022

The editor of Doek!, author of The Eternal Audience of One, and Commonwealth Prize winner is leading a charge to place his country on the literary map.

April 8, 2022

Originally planned for December 2021, to mark our first anniversary, our first special issue, for April 2022, profiles 16 African writers and curators who have impacted, disrupted, reshaped, and even created literary culture in the last five years. This landmark moment comes in two Parts, with two covers.

March 29, 2022

“My mission,” said the Nigerian American poet, “is to continue giving a space for both emerging writers, international writers, and writers negotiating themselves between multiple languages.”

February 14, 2022

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.

January 27, 2022

The Zambian poet is up for his debut collection The Rinehart Frames.

January 21, 2022

Including The Threepenny Review, A Public Space, Isele, and Lolwe.

December 10, 2021

For What Are Butterflies without Their Wings, written over six years by the Lolwe editor and Caine Prize finalist, has 14 stories.

December 10, 2021

A recap, with photos, of the four-day Lagos International Poetry Festival 2021, staging a comeback post-pandemic lockdown.

October 7, 2021

Poda-Poda Stories is a digital platform for writers from Sierra Leone, whose literary scene was disrupted by a decade-long civil war and is now regenerating with great promise. “I started it to look inward and celebrate our own writing,” says editor Ngozi Cole in this interview. “What was missing was building bridges and connections.”

August 4, 2022

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.

July 25, 2022

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.

January 12, 2022

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.

June 25, 2021

​Watch editors Troy Onyango and Rémy Ngamije talk online magazine publishing in Africa. The Instagram Live conversation, to be moderated by Frances Ogamba, is Open Country Mag’s first public event.

June 25, 2021

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.

January 23, 2021

. . . to be guest-edited by Elfreda Tetteh, Akhim Alexis, and Stephanie Wanga.

December 26, 2020

Guest-edited by Gbenga Adesina, Mapule Mohulatsi, and Esther Karin Mngodo, it features fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 19 contributors.

December 29, 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.

November 4, 2022

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.

July 4, 2022

The initiative, founded by the Nigerian novelist Suyi Davies Okungbowa, offers $500 to writers “to buy time, space, and resources” for their work.

May 13, 2022

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

April 9, 2022

The editor of Doek!, author of The Eternal Audience of One, and Commonwealth Prize winner is leading a charge to place his country on the literary map.

April 8, 2022

Originally planned for December 2021, to mark our first anniversary, our first special issue, for April 2022, profiles 16 African writers and curators who have impacted, disrupted, reshaped, and even created literary culture in the last five years. This landmark moment comes in two Parts, with two covers.

March 29, 2022

“My mission,” said the Nigerian American poet, “is to continue giving a space for both emerging writers, international writers, and writers negotiating themselves between multiple languages.”

February 14, 2022

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.

January 27, 2022

The Zambian poet is up for his debut collection The Rinehart Frames.

January 21, 2022

Including The Threepenny Review, A Public Space, Isele, and Lolwe.

December 10, 2021

For What Are Butterflies without Their Wings, written over six years by the Lolwe editor and Caine Prize finalist, has 14 stories.

December 10, 2021

A recap, with photos, of the four-day Lagos International Poetry Festival 2021, staging a comeback post-pandemic lockdown.

October 7, 2021

Poda-Poda Stories is a digital platform for writers from Sierra Leone, whose literary scene was disrupted by a decade-long civil war and is now regenerating with great promise. “I started it to look inward and celebrate our own writing,” says editor Ngozi Cole in this interview. “What was missing was building bridges and connections.”

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