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Umar Turaki by Musa Tukurah.

Umar Turaki’s Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold Goes to Little A in Two-Book Deal

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan's The Other Names of Grief; from Konya Shamsrumi.

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan & Funmi Gaji on Their New Poetry Books from Konya Shamsrumi

by Ernest Ogunyemi

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber's The House of Rust.

In The House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber Spins a Mombasan Fairytale

by Ernest Ogunyemi

Safia Elhillo's Home Is Not a Country. From @mafiasafia.

Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country Is a Tale of a Young Muslim Girl Finding Herself

by Paula Willie-Okafor

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Notes on Grief.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Next Book Is About Her Late Father

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water. From @caleb_anelson on Instagram.

In Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water, It’s Black Love & Art

by Paula Willie-Okafor

The Pan-African Pantheon.

3-Way International Rights Deal for The Pan-African Pantheon, a Book of Biographical Essays

by Jacana Media

Hafsa Zayyan's We Are All Birds of Uganda by Stuart Simpson/Penguin.

Hafsa Zayyan’s We Are All Birds of Uganda Revisits Idi Amin’s Expulsion of Asians

by Ernest Ogunyemi

Femi Kayode's Lightseekers. From @holly_watt on Twitter.

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

by Uzoma Ihejirika

The Shallow Tales Review's Issue 31.

The Shallow Tales Review Releases Issue 31

by Uzoma Ihejirika

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