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April 4, 2023

With God’s Children Are Little Broken Things, Arinze Ifeakandu Garners Breakout Acclaim

Ahead of its release in Nigeria, the collection about gay men just won the inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize for the US and Canada: a highlight in a series of recognition from the Kirkus Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Story Prize, and the Lambda Awards.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Arinze Ifeakandu by Lawren Simmons for ID UK

March 5, 2023

PhotoVogue Calls for Submissions: What Is Beauty?

Open Country Mag

March 5, 2023

Enter for Africa Soft Power’s Climate Change Photo Essay Prize

Open Country Mag

March 5, 2023

The Black Ambition Prize 2023: Apply to Win $1M 

Open Country Mag

March 5, 2023

Apply to Museum of African Diaspora’s Poets-in-Residence Program

Open Country Mag

February 16, 2023

Submit to 20.35 Africa Poetry Series Vol. 6, Guest-edited by Nick Makoha & Safia Jama

20.35 Africa

February 13, 2023

“Friendship, to Me, Is What Saves One’s Sanity”: Wole Soyinka

In this excerpt from Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s Between Starshine and Clay, the Nobel laureate and his friend Henry Louis Gates, Jr. remember another friend: the late Toni Morrison.
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Wole Soyinka. Credit: University of Oxford.

February 11, 2023

The Anticipated Books of 2023

From Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ben Okri, and Leila Aboulela, to Chigozie Obioma, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and Ayobami Adebayo, here are the over 100 books expected to lead the literary conversation this year.
Open Country Mag
The Anticipated Books of 2023

January 15, 2023

€5,000 to 100 Winners Each: Apply for the Prince Claus Seed Awards 2023

Open Country Mag

December 29, 2022

The 60 Notable Books of 2022

From Warsan Shire, Romeo Oriogun, and Safia Elhillo to Arinze Ifeakandu, Akwaeke Emezi, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chinelo Okparanta: our second annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.
Open Country Mag
The Notable Books of 2022

December 15, 2022

How Mami Wata Swam to Sundance

The fantasy revenge thriller is Nigeria’s first indigenously produced film to go to Sundance, a first it already notched at Venice. “We tapped into something beyond us while making this one,” said producer Oge Obasi. “Hopefully, that opens more doors for Nigerian filmmakers,” said director C.J. Obasi.
Otosirieze
Mami Wata - first artwork

November 4, 2022

After 2 Years Covering African Literature, Open Country Mag Expands into Film & TV

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.
Otosirieze
OCM Reissues Covers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, Tsitsi Dangarembga, & Maaza Mengiste

October 25, 2022

Emeka Ugwu, Newly Named Art Director of OCM, on Creating a Visual Language of Africanness

The multidisciplinary designer, whose clients include NASA, UNESCO, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, makes work that is “unusual and unique.”
Otosirieze
Emeka Ugwu, Art Director of Open Country Mag

October 13, 2022

Open Country Mag Reissues Covers of African Literary Icons

Ahead of our second anniversary, we redesigned our covers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Maaza Mengiste.
Otosirieze
OCM Reissues Covers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, Tsitsi Dangarembga, & Maaza Mengiste

June 15, 2022

5 Paying Magazines Now Open to Submissions

Send work to Frontier Poetry, Palette Poetry, Rattle Poetry, Isele, and Afreada.
Paula Willie-Okafor
AFREADA print Issue 00. From @AFREADA on Twitter.

May 28, 2022

12 Publications Currently Open for Submissions

From One Story to Isele, submit your work to these magazines.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 8, 2022

The Next Generation of African Literature

Originally planned for December 2021, to mark our first anniversary, our in-depth special issue profiles 16 African writers and curators who have impacted, disrupted, reshaped, and even created literary culture in the last five years.
Otosirieze
The Next Generation of African Literature Covers Open Country Mag. Covers designed by Emmimade Studio.

March 22, 2022

The Brunel Prize Announces 2022 Shortlist of 7 Poets

The judges praised the finalists as “African voices liberated from prescriptions of form and ideas.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Adedayo Agarau, the new editor-in-chief of Agbowo Magazine.

February 14, 2022

28 Writers Go Deep into Love, in Art and Life

For Valentine’s Day, we asked 28 writers—deep readers and consumers of art—to share the literary, cinematic, musical, and life stories that affect them. They opened up beautifully.
Open Country Mag
A still from the film Rafiki, directed by Wanuri Kahiu and based on Monica Arac de Nyeko's short story Jambula Tree

February 2, 2022

The 50+ Most Anticipated Books of 2022

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Arinze Ifeakandu to Warsan Shire and Romeo Oriogun, here are over 50 books expected to lead the literary conversation.
Open Country Mag
The Anticipated Books of 2022

April 4, 2023

Arinze Ifeakandu by Lawren Simmons for ID UK

With God’s Children Are Little Broken Things, Arinze Ifeakandu Garners Breakout Acclaim

Ahead of its release in Nigeria, the collection about gay men just won the inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize for the US and Canada: a highlight in a series of recognition from the Kirkus Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Story Prize, and the Lambda Awards.
Paula Willie-Okafor

March 5, 2023

PhotoVogue Calls for Submissions: What Is Beauty?

Open Country Mag

March 5, 2023

Enter for Africa Soft Power’s Climate Change Photo Essay Prize

Open Country Mag

March 5, 2023

The Black Ambition Prize 2023: Apply to Win $1M 

Open Country Mag

March 5, 2023

Apply to Museum of African Diaspora’s Poets-in-Residence Program

Open Country Mag

February 16, 2023

Submit to 20.35 Africa Poetry Series Vol. 6, Guest-edited by Nick Makoha & Safia Jama

20.35 Africa

February 13, 2023

Wole Soyinka. Credit: University of Oxford.

“Friendship, to Me, Is What Saves One’s Sanity”: Wole Soyinka

In this excerpt from Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s Between Starshine and Clay, the Nobel laureate and his friend Henry Louis Gates, Jr. remember another friend: the late Toni Morrison.
Sarah Ladipo Manyika

February 11, 2023

The Anticipated Books of 2023

The Anticipated Books of 2023

From Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ben Okri, and Leila Aboulela, to Chigozie Obioma, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and Ayobami Adebayo, here are the over 100 books expected to lead the literary conversation this year.
Open Country Mag

January 15, 2023

€5,000 to 100 Winners Each: Apply for the Prince Claus Seed Awards 2023

Open Country Mag

December 29, 2022

The Notable Books of 2022

The 60 Notable Books of 2022

From Warsan Shire, Romeo Oriogun, and Safia Elhillo to Arinze Ifeakandu, Akwaeke Emezi, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chinelo Okparanta: our second annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.
Open Country Mag

December 15, 2022

Mami Wata - first artwork

How Mami Wata Swam to Sundance

The fantasy revenge thriller is Nigeria’s first indigenously produced film to go to Sundance, a first it already notched at Venice. “We tapped into something beyond us while making this one,” said producer Oge Obasi. “Hopefully, that opens more doors for Nigerian filmmakers,” said director C.J. Obasi.
Otosirieze

November 4, 2022

OCM Reissues Covers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, Tsitsi Dangarembga, & Maaza Mengiste

After 2 Years Covering African Literature, Open Country Mag Expands into Film & TV

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.
Otosirieze

October 25, 2022

Emeka Ugwu, Art Director of Open Country Mag

Emeka Ugwu, Newly Named Art Director of OCM, on Creating a Visual Language of Africanness

The multidisciplinary designer, whose clients include NASA, UNESCO, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, makes work that is “unusual and unique.”
Otosirieze

October 13, 2022

OCM Reissues Covers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, Tsitsi Dangarembga, & Maaza Mengiste

Open Country Mag Reissues Covers of African Literary Icons

Ahead of our second anniversary, we redesigned our covers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Maaza Mengiste.
Otosirieze

June 15, 2022

AFREADA print Issue 00. From @AFREADA on Twitter.

5 Paying Magazines Now Open to Submissions

Send work to Frontier Poetry, Palette Poetry, Rattle Poetry, Isele, and Afreada.
Paula Willie-Okafor

May 28, 2022

12 Publications Currently Open for Submissions

From One Story to Isele, submit your work to these magazines.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 8, 2022

The Next Generation of African Literature Covers Open Country Mag. Covers designed by Emmimade Studio.

The Next Generation of African Literature

Originally planned for December 2021, to mark our first anniversary, our in-depth special issue profiles 16 African writers and curators who have impacted, disrupted, reshaped, and even created literary culture in the last five years.
Otosirieze

March 22, 2022

Adedayo Agarau, the new editor-in-chief of Agbowo Magazine.

The Brunel Prize Announces 2022 Shortlist of 7 Poets

The judges praised the finalists as “African voices liberated from prescriptions of form and ideas.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

February 14, 2022

A still from the film Rafiki, directed by Wanuri Kahiu and based on Monica Arac de Nyeko's short story Jambula Tree

28 Writers Go Deep into Love, in Art and Life

For Valentine’s Day, we asked 28 writers—deep readers and consumers of art—to share the literary, cinematic, musical, and life stories that affect them. They opened up beautifully.
Open Country Mag

February 2, 2022

The Anticipated Books of 2022

The 50+ Most Anticipated Books of 2022

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Arinze Ifeakandu to Warsan Shire and Romeo Oriogun, here are over 50 books expected to lead the literary conversation.
Open Country Mag

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