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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.

July 8, 2021

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Shortlisted for Theodore Sturgeon Award 2021

The Nigeria-based writer and editor is shortlisted for his story “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon,” which has been recognized by a slew of international science fiction awards in the U.S. and the U.K.
Ernest Ogunyemi
OGHENECHOVWE DONALD EKPEKI.

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.

April 11, 2021

Submit to Africa Risen, a Speculative Fiction Anthology, Co-edited by Sheree Renée Thomas

“A celebration of African storytelling,” the anthology’s other co-editors are Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, who previously co-edited Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Africa Risen
The cover art for Africa Risen: Planet Prevail by ArtbyAncient.

March 16, 2021

Groundbreaking Nebula Awards Shortlists Include 3 Africans

With his story in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki becomes the first Africa-based writer to be shortlisted. “It’s something you never realised that it’s possible,” he said.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

February 22, 2021

“The World Is Paying Attention”: 6 African Writers on BSFA Awards Shortlist

Two of the finalists appear in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

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

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.

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

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

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

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

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.
Socrates Mbamalu
Troy Onyango by Jagero.

June 27, 2022

Where Diriye Osman Draws His Flamboyance

With his queerness and community as shield, the Somali writer is the rare artist who considers himself art. “We can be as weird and wonderful and brilliant and badass as we want to be,” he says in his first in-depth interview in eight years.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Diriye Osman by Diriye Osman

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.

April 29, 2022

Keletso Mopai Owns Her Story and Her Voice

The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Keletso Mopai

April 13, 2022

The Seminal Breakout of Gbenga Adesina

The prize-winning Nigerian poet and co-founder of A Long House magazine honed his craft in the quiet, and then we heard his pathbreaking voice.
Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu
Gbenga Adesina by Ladan Osman.

April 13, 2022

At Africa in Dialogue, Gaamangwe Joy Mogami Lures Out Storytelling Truths

For many writers and artists in the continent, the Motswana shaman, poet, scriptwriter, editor, and interviewer is a go-to for deep conversations. What she does is “about consciousness,” going “into the realm of memory.”
Otosirieze
Gaamangwe Joy Mogami.

April 13, 2022

Cheswayo Mphanza on Intertextual Poetry & Zambia’s Moment

The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated poetry collection The Rinehart Frames wants “an expansion in terms of how we speak of African literature.”
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
Cheswayo Mphanza.

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

July 8, 2021

OGHENECHOVWE DONALD EKPEKI.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Shortlisted for Theodore Sturgeon Award 2021

The Nigeria-based writer and editor is shortlisted for his story “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon,” which has been recognized by a slew of international science fiction awards in the U.S. and the U.K.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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

April 11, 2021

The cover art for Africa Risen: Planet Prevail by ArtbyAncient.

Submit to Africa Risen, a Speculative Fiction Anthology, Co-edited by Sheree Renée Thomas

“A celebration of African storytelling,” the anthology’s other co-editors are Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, who previously co-edited Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Africa Risen

March 16, 2021

Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Groundbreaking Nebula Awards Shortlists Include 3 Africans

With his story in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki becomes the first Africa-based writer to be shortlisted. “It’s something you never realised that it’s possible,” he said.
Ernest Ogunyemi

February 22, 2021

Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

“The World Is Paying Attention”: 6 African Writers on BSFA Awards Shortlist

Two of the finalists appear in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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

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

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

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

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

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango by Jagero.

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

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.
Socrates Mbamalu

June 27, 2022

Diriye Osman by Diriye Osman

Where Diriye Osman Draws His Flamboyance

With his queerness and community as shield, the Somali writer is the rare artist who considers himself art. “We can be as weird and wonderful and brilliant and badass as we want to be,” he says in his first in-depth interview in eight years.
Uzoma Ihejirika

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

April 29, 2022

Keletso Mopai

Keletso Mopai Owns Her Story and Her Voice

The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.
Paula Willie-Okafor

April 13, 2022

Gbenga Adesina by Ladan Osman.

The Seminal Breakout of Gbenga Adesina

The prize-winning Nigerian poet and co-founder of A Long House magazine honed his craft in the quiet, and then we heard his pathbreaking voice.
Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu

April 13, 2022

Gaamangwe Joy Mogami.

At Africa in Dialogue, Gaamangwe Joy Mogami Lures Out Storytelling Truths

For many writers and artists in the continent, the Motswana shaman, poet, scriptwriter, editor, and interviewer is a go-to for deep conversations. What she does is “about consciousness,” going “into the realm of memory.”
Otosirieze

April 13, 2022

Cheswayo Mphanza.

Cheswayo Mphanza on Intertextual Poetry & Zambia’s Moment

The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated poetry collection The Rinehart Frames wants “an expansion in terms of how we speak of African literature.”
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

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