by Otosirieze Obi-Young
“I wanted to write a book that seeks to find wonder in the least likely of places,” said Turaki, whose writing earned praise from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Otosirieze Obi-Young
Otosirieze Obi-Young is the founder and editor-in-chief of Open Country Mag. He is editor of Folio Nigeria, CNN’s exclusive media affiliate in Nigeria. He received the inaugural The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature in 2019.
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by Otosirieze Obi-Young
The London-based press published Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer.
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
Notes on Grief will explore collective mourning through the late James Nwoye Adichie’s life as a Biafran War survivor and statistics professor.
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
How Hamish Hamilton’s 24-year-old Nigerian British talent went from a historic heading of an Oxford college to editing Booker Prize winners Bernardine Evaristo and Marlon James, to broadening her diversity advocacy.
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
Iduma revealed their relationship in a beautiful letter on Instagram: “I should begin with how long I’ve loved you, to what extent, and with what intensity.”
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
The poems, out in November 2021, “navigate language, memory, sexuality, identity, longing, and the mind’s inner workings.”
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
“It’s amazing that any government would put writers like me on a list of enemies of the Nigerian state,” he says. “A writer who calls out corruption could not be an enemy of the state.”
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
Her novels, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze and the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King, explore the Revolution and the Italo-Abyssinian War. Now, with Project 3541, she is building a photography archive.
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
After two acclaimed books, the historical novelist is now looking to photography to chronicle Ethiopia.
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
The anthology comes with an essay contest, a chance to be featured alongside Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Abi Daré, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Inua Ellams.
