by Paula Willie-Okafor
The issue features Pwaangulongii Dauod, Bertille Mbarga, Géraldin Mpesse, Nelson Kamkuimo, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, JK Anowe, and Lebohang Mojapelo.
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.
Posts by Paula Willie-Okafor
by Paula Willie-Okafor
It is the author and photographer’s eighth book and second collection of essays.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The short story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells “pulls from mystery, horror, realism, myth, and graphic novels.”
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The £4,000 initiative, for women and non-binary debut authors influenced by Walter Rodney, comes with publication.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The eighth book from the Nigerian British writer—author of The Icarus Girl; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours—has been called “a modern fairy tale.”
by Paula Willie-Okafor
“Many of these poets are young, in their 20s, and their voices are fresh, articulate, compelling,” the judges say.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
She was known for her assertive views on politics and women’s rights, which put her at risk. “Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies,” she wrote after release from prison.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The Eritrean-Ethiopian’s third novel has been acquired by Canongate’s Ellah Wakatama in the UK and the Commonwealth and by Graywolf Press in the US.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The Way We Were tells the story of three women’s friendship. “The story of young Muslim women wasn’t being told outside a stereotypical narrative,” said the Egyptian poet.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The novel in verse is the Sudanese poet’s first work of fiction.
