The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.
By Paula Willie-Okafor
Paula Willie-Okafor
Paula Willie-Okafor is a staff writer at Open Country Mag. She is a student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she is custodian of The Writers’ Community (TWC). Her writing has appeared in Kissing Dynamite Magazine and Praxis Magazine.
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The professor of English and author of the story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells talks her eclectic interests and “containing multitudes.”
By Paula Willie-Okafor
Finalists include poets Romeo Oriogun, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, and Itiola Jones, and short story writers Troy Onyango and Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo.
By Paula Willie-Okafor
It goes to “an oeuvre of literary excellence” in South Africa.
By Paula Willie-Okafor
The judges called the Kenyan author a “transformative figure in African Literature.”
By Paula Willie-Okafor
The three have books forthcoming this year.
By Paula Willie-Okafor
In Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?, a woman charts the pressure to marry, and finds self-love.
By Paula Willie-Okafor
The Isele Prizes are for short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Each winner will receive $200 at a ceremony in April 2022.
By Paula Willie-Okafor
The Nigerian poet shows perplexities with measured control and composure—a detached storyteller with the simple yet daring assignment of pointing “humanity to the loss of itself.”
By Paula Willie-Okafor
Years ago in Nigeria, the activist was attacked by a mob for being gay. “Alongside my personal story is a call to action,” he wrote about his new memoir.
By Paula Willie-Okafor
