Emmanuel Esomnofu
Emmanuel Esomnofu is a staff writer at Open Country Mag. He is a culture journalist and has written extensively on Nigerian music and on several moving parts of popular culture. His writing appears online in Native Mag, Okay Africa, Kalahari Review, Praxis Magazine, and elsewhere. He was published in print in The Muse, the oldest student journal in West Africa. In December 2020, he worked on “Fuji: A Opera” as a copywriter, creating informative and exciting stories from Fuji’s rich history.
All Work by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The author of God’s Children Are Broken Little Things is “destined to join the ranks of artists such as Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.”
By Emmanuel Esomnofu
Other African writers participating include Laila Lalami, Ousman Umar, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Leila Slimani.
By Emmanuel Esomnofu
The Future Award Africa Prize-winning Nigerian poet and author of the collection In the Nude on “the book as an interface for the soul” and their literary, musical, and cinematic influences.
By Emmanuel Esomnofu
And Then He Sang a Lullaby is described by the Grove Atlantic imprint as “a passionate love story about two young men who may have too far a distance to bridge to another.”
By Emmanuel Esomnofu
The podcast, with co-host Emeka Onyeagwa, is a “deep and often entertaining insight into Nigerian current affairs and culture.”
By Emmanuel Esomnofu
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.
By Emmanuel Esomnofu
Her manuscript, Mass for Shut-Ins, was praised for its “potent incantations” and called “Flowers of Evil for the 21st century.”
By Emmanuel Esomnofu
The judges praised the finalists as “African voices liberated from prescriptions of form and ideas.”
By Emmanuel Esomnofu
The production will be by Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios and David Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon.
By Emmanuel Esomnofu