by Ernest Ogunyemi
Gbolahan’s The Other Names of Grief, which “shows us the way to survival,” and Gaji’s The Script of Bruises, about “space and belonging,” are now available in Nigeria.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Ernest O. Ògunyemi is a staff writer at Open Country Mag. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Tinderbox, Sierra Nevada Review, Journal Nine, The Indianapolis Review, Down River Road, Capsule Stories, No Tokens, The West Review, The Dark Magazine, Mud Season Review, Isele, and in the anthology 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry III. He is the curator of The Fire That Is Dreamed of: The Young African Poets Anthology.
Posts by Ernest Ogunyemi
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie was the first female registrar of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her passing comes eight months after her husband’s.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
“Everywhere else gets romanticised, what about Mombasa?” she said of her debut novel, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October 2021.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Two of the finalists appear in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Available positions include contributing interviewers for fiction, for poetry, and for creative nonfiction; contributing editor; and social media manager.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
You can submit to AGNI, Gutter, The Malahat Review, The Journal, and Wildness.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
It is “one of the crucial places to make archival, research, literary content in Yorùbá available to the general public, scholars, and students,” the Nigerian linguist and writer says.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
The Ghanaian novelist is nominated for her second novel Transcendent Kingdom.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
The winners, in the two categories of fiction and poetry, will each receive $1000 and their work will appear in an issue of the publication.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
The Nigerian Pakistani lawyer’s debut novel, written in six months, moves between ’70s Uganda and present-day London.
