by Emmanuel Esomnofu
Watch season 2’s pilot with the South African writer in which they discuss writing, race, xenophobia, and filmmaking.
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.
Posts by Emmanuel Esomnofu
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
Inspired by anticolonialist feminist movements, the Nigerian performer set out to honour them in community-centered theatre. Her latest show is Story Story.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The novelist and photographer, who has written about the sheer indestructibility of music, “will be accompanied by works spanning nearly a millennia, including pieces by Hildegard Von Bingen and Caroline Shaw.”
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize 2021.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
Winners of the $3,000 prizes will be chosen by Prairie Schooner editor-in-chief Kwame Dawes.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
. . . by RezThaPoet, Vector, Wana Udobang, Shegzrhymz, and Titilope Sonuga.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
These poems hold some of the most visceral and philosophical stanzas you’ll read in any anthology, in any country.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The Nigerian poet takes readers on a spiraling, sobering journey, full of humility and restrained passion.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
Like her previous spoken word and poetry albums, Dirty Laundry and In Memory of Forgetting, this is a feminist work, but it is the flair of the storytelling and music that makes the album tick.
