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September 14, 2025

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VIII: “The Desired and the Divine”

Of the eighth volume guest-edited by Sarah Lubala and Logan February, managing editor Precious Okpechi writes: “The way we express joy, the way our longings fold out of our skin, is skewed by the weight of customs.”
Precious Okpechi
20.35 Africa Volume VIII, guest-edited by Sarah Lubala and Logan February

September 12, 2025

Announcing the African Film Press (AFP) Critics Prize

African Film Press
African Film Press founders (L-R): Tambay Obenson (Akoroko), Jennifer Ochieng (Sinema Focus), Ikeade Oriade (What Kept Me Up). PHOTO CREDIT African Film Press/David Wambua.

March 27, 2025

Historical Dramas Lisabi: The Uprising, Seven Doors, and House of Ga’a Dominate AMVCAs 2025 Nominations

Lisabi: The Uprising, Seven Doors, and House of Ga’a lead with ten nominations. Composer Tolu Obanro is also nominated.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
House of Ga'a. Credit: Bolanle Austen-Peters, HOUSE OF GA'A, 2024, Netflix.

March 25, 2025

Dream Count, Reviewed: A Great Novelist’s Chronicle of Vulnerabilities

Coming 12 years after her third novel Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s vital, splintered return to longform fiction shows classes of womanhood. It demonstrates yet again her elegant, unmatched grasp of language. In some ways, it is also different from her previous novels.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Nigerian edition cover by Narrative Landscape Press

February 15, 2025

Anticipated Books of 2025

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, and Goretti Kyomuhendo to Tochi Eze, Chisom Okafor, Itiola Jones, and Adedayo Agarau: the anticipated books of 2025.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Anticipated Books of 2025

January 16, 2025

60 Notable Books of 2024

From Chigozie Obioma, Sulaiman Addonia, Reem Gafar, and Dinaw Mengestu to Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Abi Dare, and Nadifa Mohamed: the notable books of 2024 by Africans.
Open Country Mag
The Best African Books of 2024

October 15, 2024

Apply to the 2025 Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop

Open Country Mag

September 20, 2024

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: One Foot in the Closet, a Podcast for Queer & Beyond-the-Binary Africans

Hosted by the East African activist Name Redacted, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, “conversations like these provide a counter-narrative to predominant Western narratives of ‘coming out.'”
Otosirieze
One Foot in the Closet, Season 2, Episode 1 cover art

September 18, 2024

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VII: “This Grasping for Hope Walks with Us”

20.35 Africa Vol. VII, guest-edited by Kwame Opoku-Duku, is introduced by managing editor Precious Okpechi: “A sense of belonging permeates the poems in this anthology, an acceptance of one’s place in a flawed world.”
20.35 Africa
20.35 Africa, Volume 7

August 21, 2024

The Creed of Cardinal Arinze

How a young priest from Onitsha, Nigeria, became the highest-ranking African and Black official of the Roman Catholic Church, and a storied icon of modern apostolicism.
Otosirieze
Cardinal Arinze prepares for Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of Corpus Christi in London on June 20, 2019. Photo credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

March 6, 2024

A Poet Imagines Dreams for the Displaced

In Exodus, his debut collection, ‘Gbenga Adeoba threads the histories, migrations, and traumas of people forced to sea.
Iheoma Uzomba
Gbenga Adeoba by Timilehin Alake.

February 13, 2024

African Prizes, Grants, Fellowships, & Magazines to Apply to in 2024

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

October 4, 2023

Jericho Brown & Bassey Ikpi to Headline Lagos International Poetry Festival

Uchenna Emelife
Jericho Brown.

August 19, 2023

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 8

Lolwe

August 15, 2023

“Thrilling and Innovative Ideas”: Open Country Mag Names 6 Curatorial Fellows

The $6,000 initiative, sponsored by Africa No Filter, will fund and support five projects representing West, East, and Southern Africa: a musical and art exhibition, 3D fashion and storytelling, a mixed media project on Nok terracotta, a podcast on LGBTQI+ issues, and a documentary on Nollywood.
Otosirieze
OCM Curatorial Fellows Announcement

August 5, 2023

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VI: “Creating a New Tradition in African Poetry”

20.35 Africa Vol. VI, edited by Nick Makoha and Safia Jama, is introduced by the series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi: “The poets understand that history evolves with us.”
20.35 Africa
20.35 Africa Vol. VI

July 3, 2023

Attend SprinNG’s MFA Orientation Session for African Writers

SprinNG

May 17, 2023

Register for SBMEN’s Hybrid Writing and Editing Course: June 2023

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

March 9, 2023

Apply to SBMEN’s Virtual Copyediting Course in March 2023

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

March 5, 2023

Submit to Konya Shamsrumi’s Audiotext Poetry Project: KSR Gazelle

Open Country Mag

September 14, 2025

20.35 Africa Volume VIII, guest-edited by Sarah Lubala and Logan February

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VIII: “The Desired and the Divine”

Of the eighth volume guest-edited by Sarah Lubala and Logan February, managing editor Precious Okpechi writes: “The way we express joy, the way our longings fold out of our skin, is skewed by the weight of customs.”
Precious Okpechi

September 12, 2025

African Film Press founders (L-R): Tambay Obenson (Akoroko), Jennifer Ochieng (Sinema Focus), Ikeade Oriade (What Kept Me Up). PHOTO CREDIT African Film Press/David Wambua.

Announcing the African Film Press (AFP) Critics Prize

African Film Press

March 27, 2025

House of Ga'a. Credit: Bolanle Austen-Peters, HOUSE OF GA'A, 2024, Netflix.

Historical Dramas Lisabi: The Uprising, Seven Doors, and House of Ga’a Dominate AMVCAs 2025 Nominations

Lisabi: The Uprising, Seven Doors, and House of Ga’a lead with ten nominations. Composer Tolu Obanro is also nominated.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

March 25, 2025

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Nigerian edition cover by Narrative Landscape Press

Dream Count, Reviewed: A Great Novelist’s Chronicle of Vulnerabilities

Coming 12 years after her third novel Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s vital, splintered return to longform fiction shows classes of womanhood. It demonstrates yet again her elegant, unmatched grasp of language. In some ways, it is also different from her previous novels.
Paula Willie-Okafor

February 15, 2025

Anticipated Books of 2025

Anticipated Books of 2025

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, and Goretti Kyomuhendo to Tochi Eze, Chisom Okafor, Itiola Jones, and Adedayo Agarau: the anticipated books of 2025.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

January 16, 2025

The Best African Books of 2024

60 Notable Books of 2024

From Chigozie Obioma, Sulaiman Addonia, Reem Gafar, and Dinaw Mengestu to Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Abi Dare, and Nadifa Mohamed: the notable books of 2024 by Africans.
Open Country Mag

October 15, 2024

Apply to the 2025 Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop

Open Country Mag

September 20, 2024

One Foot in the Closet, Season 2, Episode 1 cover art

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: One Foot in the Closet, a Podcast for Queer & Beyond-the-Binary Africans

Hosted by the East African activist Name Redacted, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, “conversations like these provide a counter-narrative to predominant Western narratives of ‘coming out.'”
Otosirieze

September 18, 2024

20.35 Africa, Volume 7

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VII: “This Grasping for Hope Walks with Us”

20.35 Africa Vol. VII, guest-edited by Kwame Opoku-Duku, is introduced by managing editor Precious Okpechi: “A sense of belonging permeates the poems in this anthology, an acceptance of one’s place in a flawed world.”
20.35 Africa

August 21, 2024

Cardinal Arinze prepares for Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of Corpus Christi in London on June 20, 2019. Photo credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

The Creed of Cardinal Arinze

How a young priest from Onitsha, Nigeria, became the highest-ranking African and Black official of the Roman Catholic Church, and a storied icon of modern apostolicism.
Otosirieze

March 6, 2024

Gbenga Adeoba by Timilehin Alake.

A Poet Imagines Dreams for the Displaced

In Exodus, his debut collection, ‘Gbenga Adeoba threads the histories, migrations, and traumas of people forced to sea.
Iheoma Uzomba

February 13, 2024

African Prizes, Grants, Fellowships, & Magazines to Apply to in 2024

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

October 4, 2023

Jericho Brown.

Jericho Brown & Bassey Ikpi to Headline Lagos International Poetry Festival

Uchenna Emelife

August 19, 2023

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 8

Lolwe

August 15, 2023

OCM Curatorial Fellows Announcement

“Thrilling and Innovative Ideas”: Open Country Mag Names 6 Curatorial Fellows

The $6,000 initiative, sponsored by Africa No Filter, will fund and support five projects representing West, East, and Southern Africa: a musical and art exhibition, 3D fashion and storytelling, a mixed media project on Nok terracotta, a podcast on LGBTQI+ issues, and a documentary on Nollywood.
Otosirieze

August 5, 2023

20.35 Africa Vol. VI

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VI: “Creating a New Tradition in African Poetry”

20.35 Africa Vol. VI, edited by Nick Makoha and Safia Jama, is introduced by the series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi: “The poets understand that history evolves with us.”
20.35 Africa

July 3, 2023

Attend SprinNG’s MFA Orientation Session for African Writers

SprinNG

May 17, 2023

Register for SBMEN’s Hybrid Writing and Editing Course: June 2023

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

March 9, 2023

Apply to SBMEN’s Virtual Copyediting Course in March 2023

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

March 5, 2023

Submit to Konya Shamsrumi’s Audiotext Poetry Project: KSR Gazelle

Open Country Mag

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