by Emmanuel Esomnofu
With a literary magazine, an events platform ArtsnChill, and a new online publishing arm, a small arts organisation, Agbowó, continues “to hold a space where it is unnecessary to be someone else.”
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
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The novel has been praised for its “charged language.”
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The two actors of Nigerian descent will narrate HarperCollins’ and The Borough Press’ forthcoming collection of essays by Nigerian writers.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
“If we are to make our characters feel human and real, they require our care,” she says of her story “The Street Sweep.”
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
It will enhance the next phase of the Portal, “expanding research and scholarship relating to African poetry and joining with other institutions to create a digital collections hub that will give access to materials held by institutions worldwide.”
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
Even with its serious subject, the novel finds balance through sustained humor and is enhanced by Mahjoub’s ear for dialogue.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The event, announced by the Vice Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, will be virtual.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The action, by papers including The Nation, Punch, Vanguard, Daily Sun, Nigerian Tribune, ThisDay, and The Guardian, is in response to National Assembly bills meant to stifle press freedom.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The Cameroonian’s second novel incorporates storytelling elements from the Old Testament, where the destinies of marginalized peoples are entrenched in the communal and the spiritual.
by Emmanuel Esomnofu
The event is part of the Museum of the African Diaspora’s “Conversations Across the Diaspora” series.
