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Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

Staff Writer

Orji Victor Ebubechukwu writes features and reviews for Open Country Mag. His works have appeared in Iskanchi Magazine, BreakBread Literary Magazine, The Adirondack Review, Afritondo Magazine, African Writers Magazine, The Shallow Tales Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Connect with him on Twitter: @BubeOrji.

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July 8, 2025

Taiwo Egunjobi’s Cinema of the Trapped

In grave dramas of styled minimalism, the Ibadan-born director constructs harsh worlds of dangerous dreams, in which characters are caught up in greed and violence.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

June 24, 2025

His Style Is Symbolist: “Afro Contemporary Symbolism”

Grief led Uwana Anthony to make his short film Everything Must End. His style is “a movement and a cause for change in our approach to pursuing knowledge.”
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

June 6, 2025

32 Books in 63 Years: Your Guide to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Body of Work

The late great Kenyan writer produced full-length work in all genres except poetry, capturing the tensions between colonizer and colonized, orality and literacy, and tradition and modernity.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 30, 2025

The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura by Tierno Monénembo, Reviewed: Mystery Guinean Girl on the Run, from Conakry to Paris

In the 78-year-old Guinean author’s 14th novel, translated by Ryan Chamberlain, names are history and memory is survival.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 29, 2025

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Great Kenyan Writer Who Centred African Languages, Dies at 87

The novelist, playwright, and theorist left a blistering legacy. He was, with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, regarded as part of an unofficial trinity: the continent’s greatest pioneering writers.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 27, 2025

She Makes Humane and Horror Shorts

As founder of the Africa International Horror Film Festival (AIHFF), the first such platform in West Africa and second in the continent, Nneoha Ann Aligwe believes that the genre “allows us to confront” the “darkness within us.” And courage matters to her, hence her documentary Born Different.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 19, 2025

In His Short Films, the Drama Is in the Mundane

Guided by his “Igbo awakening,” Dika Ofoma sets his brief features — God’s Wife, A Quiet Monday, and A Japa Tale, among them — in southeastern Nigeria, with characters, often women, whose day-to-day lives, he argues, are “interesting enough.”
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 13, 2025

She Got Her Start by Asking. Now She Runs Her Own Shows.

Not wanting to be boxed in, Fatima Binta Gimsay moves from television to short films. Her work includes Fine Girls, Omozi, and Ijo. “The challenge on the indie side of things will always be money,” she said.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

July 8, 2025

Taiwo Egunjobi’s Cinema of the Trapped

In grave dramas of styled minimalism, the Ibadan-born director constructs harsh worlds of dangerous dreams, in which characters are caught up in greed and violence.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

June 24, 2025

His Style Is Symbolist: “Afro Contemporary Symbolism”

Grief led Uwana Anthony to make his short film Everything Must End. His style is “a movement and a cause for change in our approach to pursuing knowledge.”
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

June 6, 2025

32 Books in 63 Years: Your Guide to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Body of Work

The late great Kenyan writer produced full-length work in all genres except poetry, capturing the tensions between colonizer and colonized, orality and literacy, and tradition and modernity.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 30, 2025

The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura by Tierno Monénembo, Reviewed: Mystery Guinean Girl on the Run, from Conakry to Paris

In the 78-year-old Guinean author’s 14th novel, translated by Ryan Chamberlain, names are history and memory is survival.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 29, 2025

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Great Kenyan Writer Who Centred African Languages, Dies at 87

The novelist, playwright, and theorist left a blistering legacy. He was, with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, regarded as part of an unofficial trinity: the continent’s greatest pioneering writers.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 27, 2025

She Makes Humane and Horror Shorts

As founder of the Africa International Horror Film Festival (AIHFF), the first such platform in West Africa and second in the continent, Nneoha Ann Aligwe believes that the genre “allows us to confront” the “darkness within us.” And courage matters to her, hence her documentary Born Different.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 19, 2025

In His Short Films, the Drama Is in the Mundane

Guided by his “Igbo awakening,” Dika Ofoma sets his brief features — God’s Wife, A Quiet Monday, and A Japa Tale, among them — in southeastern Nigeria, with characters, often women, whose day-to-day lives, he argues, are “interesting enough.”
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 13, 2025

She Got Her Start by Asking. Now She Runs Her Own Shows.

Not wanting to be boxed in, Fatima Binta Gimsay moves from television to short films. Her work includes Fine Girls, Omozi, and Ijo. “The challenge on the indie side of things will always be money,” she said.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

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