by Uzoma Ihejirika
The forthcoming short film, a love story set in Enugu State, Nigeria, is Wapah Ezeigwe’s directorial debut. “I wasn’t willing to compromise any of my artistic vision,” they said.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Uzoma Ihejirika is a staff writer at Open Country Mag. He is a staff writer at Folio Nigeria. He is an editor for the AfroAnthology Series and a copy editor for Minority Africa. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming on Lolwe, Music in Africa, and Bakwa Magazine, and can also be found on Medium.
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by Uzoma Ihejirika
In Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, writers are gathering to converse and perform at Eagle Nest Book Club. “It is likely we have created something that will outstay us in this place,” said the founders.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
“Part of the reality of being an international student is that one is always nearly broke,” the Nigerian writer said of the $3,000 award.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
The Three of Us, about a British Nigerian family, explores “questions about cultural expectations, the fine line between compromise and betrayal, and the nature of truth.”
by Uzoma Ihejirika
Edmund White praised it as “the beginning of a brilliant career.” Adam Haslett called the book “heartbroken but pulsing with life” and Ifeakandu “a major talent.”
by Uzoma Ihejirika
“The major goal for me isn’t so much breaking the Guinness records,” one of them, Bayode Olawunmi-Treasures, has said: “it is to make reading great again.”
by Uzoma Ihejirika
For What Are Butterflies without Their Wings, written over six years by the Lolwe editor and Caine Prize finalist, has 14 stories.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
The Ethiopian novelist’s event is themed “Forgotten Heroines & Tomorrow’s Sheroes.”
by Uzoma Ihejirika
The Nigerian writer’s debut novel, of Igbo fantasy, has been praised as a cross between Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
The Mozambican author, now retired, takes the €100,000 Lusophone literary honour for her body of work.
