Africa

August 20, 2021

“What we bring is a seminal thinking of poetry,” writes the poetry series’ editor-in-chief Ebenezer Agu. “We must recognize the beauty and complexity of this transcreation.”

August 9, 2021

The new publication pays $150 for prose pieces of 3,000 words or more, $30 for an individual poem, and $100 maximum for a suite of poems.

July 30, 2021

Themed Chaos, the 19 contributors cast doubts on the mythological truism of the act of creation, and by extension creativity.

July 26, 2021

The writer, previously shortlisted for the £10,000 award in 2019, is the first winner from her country. Her story, “The Street Sweep,” “negotiates the imported power dynamics of foreign aid in Addis Ababa.”

July 8, 2021

Our team of Pan-African creatives has put together a summit, sessions, and a documentary screening.

July 2, 2021

Winning projects for the $200,000 Fund will be expected to “develop reading culture beyond the classroom in Africa.”

July 2, 2021

Five writers are in the running for the £1,000 prize money and a publication deal.

June 25, 2021

​Watch editors Troy Onyango and Rémy Ngamije talk online magazine publishing in Africa. The Instagram Live conversation, to be moderated by Frances Ogamba, is Open Country Mag’s first public event.

June 25, 2021

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.

June 17, 2021

The £1,000 award, founded by the Nigerian writer Onyeka Nwelue, is for unpublished manuscripts.

June 3, 2021

After a key change to the prize rules, three of the five finalists are published by new African literary magazines: Namibia’s first literary magazine Doek!, Kenya’s Lolwe, and Uganda’s Ibua Journal.

May 31, 2021

Jeremy T. Karn’s chapbook Miryam Magdalit explores grief and memory in war-time Liberia. Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu’s Sister looks at guilt, shame, and love in a family dynamic. It “feels like a dream,” Nuhu says.

May 17, 2021

The South African publisher extends its “Don’t Shut Up” conversations, with six panels on the state of the continent.

March 5, 2021

“This year’s short story prize was centred on Identity,” the organisers said. “The judges selected stories that were original, well crafted, and reflected the theme of the prize.”

February 22, 2021

It will be facilitated by accomplished experts including Otosirieze Obi-Young, Omolola Opatayo, and Anwuli Ojogwu, co-founder of SBMEN.

February 22, 2021

Two of the finalists appear in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

February 18, 2021

Available positions include contributing interviewers for fiction, for poetry, and for creative nonfiction; contributing editor; and social media manager.

February 12, 2021

Watch season 2’s pilot with the South African writer in which they discuss writing, race, xenophobia, and filmmaking.

February 12, 2021

Their conversation, “The Root of Nations,” will re-examine what it means to formulate a state via the incredibly important but rarely considered female gaze.

August 20, 2021

“What we bring is a seminal thinking of poetry,” writes the poetry series’ editor-in-chief Ebenezer Agu. “We must recognize the beauty and complexity of this transcreation.”

August 9, 2021

The new publication pays $150 for prose pieces of 3,000 words or more, $30 for an individual poem, and $100 maximum for a suite of poems.

July 30, 2021

Themed Chaos, the 19 contributors cast doubts on the mythological truism of the act of creation, and by extension creativity.

July 26, 2021

The writer, previously shortlisted for the £10,000 award in 2019, is the first winner from her country. Her story, “The Street Sweep,” “negotiates the imported power dynamics of foreign aid in Addis Ababa.”

July 8, 2021

Our team of Pan-African creatives has put together a summit, sessions, and a documentary screening.

July 2, 2021

Winning projects for the $200,000 Fund will be expected to “develop reading culture beyond the classroom in Africa.”

July 2, 2021

Five writers are in the running for the £1,000 prize money and a publication deal.

June 25, 2021

​Watch editors Troy Onyango and Rémy Ngamije talk online magazine publishing in Africa. The Instagram Live conversation, to be moderated by Frances Ogamba, is Open Country Mag’s first public event.

June 25, 2021

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.

June 17, 2021

The £1,000 award, founded by the Nigerian writer Onyeka Nwelue, is for unpublished manuscripts.

June 3, 2021

After a key change to the prize rules, three of the five finalists are published by new African literary magazines: Namibia’s first literary magazine Doek!, Kenya’s Lolwe, and Uganda’s Ibua Journal.

May 31, 2021

Jeremy T. Karn’s chapbook Miryam Magdalit explores grief and memory in war-time Liberia. Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu’s Sister looks at guilt, shame, and love in a family dynamic. It “feels like a dream,” Nuhu says.

May 17, 2021

The South African publisher extends its “Don’t Shut Up” conversations, with six panels on the state of the continent.

March 5, 2021

“This year’s short story prize was centred on Identity,” the organisers said. “The judges selected stories that were original, well crafted, and reflected the theme of the prize.”

February 22, 2021

It will be facilitated by accomplished experts including Otosirieze Obi-Young, Omolola Opatayo, and Anwuli Ojogwu, co-founder of SBMEN.

February 22, 2021

Two of the finalists appear in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

February 18, 2021

Available positions include contributing interviewers for fiction, for poetry, and for creative nonfiction; contributing editor; and social media manager.

February 12, 2021

Watch season 2’s pilot with the South African writer in which they discuss writing, race, xenophobia, and filmmaking.

February 12, 2021

Their conversation, “The Root of Nations,” will re-examine what it means to formulate a state via the incredibly important but rarely considered female gaze.

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