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, Bakwa Magazine, and can also be found on Medium.

Ladan Osman & Tope Folarin Win Whiting Awards

by Uzoma Ihejirika

“Osman’s dazzling and incisive poetry creates vibrant connections between generations of women,” said the committee. “Folarin’s fable-like novel is painful in its examination of the way ready-made beliefs are overlaid onto the minds of children.”

The Making of Songs We Learn from Trees, the First Anthology of Amharic Poetry in English

by Uzoma Ihejirika

How Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje filled a gap in Ethiopian literature.

Enter for Arts & Letters Prizes, Judged by Romeo Oriogun & Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

by Uzoma Ihejirika

Winners will be published in the journal and receive $1,000. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021.

Teju Cole Marks Open City’s 10th Anniversary

by Uzoma Ihejirika

“I knew it was a strange book,” he writes. “What did I hope for it? That it would find a few good readers.”

Femi Kayode’s Debut, Lightseekers, Is a Murder Mystery on a Nigerian Campus

by Uzoma Ihejirika

The book, which won the Little, Brown/UEA Crime Fiction Award in 2019, is the first in an investigative series focused on Dr Philip K. Taiwo.

UN to Launch African SDGs Book Club with 6 Literary Partners

by Uzoma Ihejirika

Interested writers, publishers, and readers with books for children aged 6-12, that fit any of the 17 SDGs, are encouraged to apply.

The Shallow Tales Review Releases Issue 31

by Uzoma Ihejirika

The magazine wants to “chronicle the shift from mediocrity to success.”

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 3

by Uzoma Ihejirika

. . . to be guest-edited by Elfreda Tetteh, Akhim Alexis, and Stephanie Wanga.

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives Is a Story of War & Love in Colonized Tanzania

by Uzoma Ihejirika

It is the 10th novel by the Tanzanian author, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996.

Kobby Ben Ben’s No One Dies Yet, Set in Accra in the Year of Return, Acquired by Europa

by Uzoma Ihejirika

It is an “unsettling tale of murder in a country whose dead slaves are shackled with stories that must be heard.”

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