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February 8, 2025

SBMEN Announces Editorial Practice & Project Management Course in February 2025

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

January 10, 2025

The Nigerian Edition Cover of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count

Narrative Landscape Press
The Nigerian Edition Cover of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dream Count

January 9, 2025

In the Lives of Three Couples, a Vision for Queer Love

The documentary This Is Love shows Nigerians who “live beautiful love stories in a place where the love they share is taboo.” After a Best LGBT Feature win at Brazil’s Bahia Independent Cinema Festival, director and co-producer Victor Ugoo knows that “distribution seems to be the hardest part of filmmaking.”
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu
One of the couples featured in This Is Love. The documentary "would have been entirely different if we weren’t concerned about anti-LGBTQ+ laws."

December 9, 2024

A Small Indie Producer Bets on Social Justice Cinema

Godwin Harrison’s “advocacy-led” HUG Media Concept is “about using cinema to address issues.” His new film Ima’mi is based on his life as an Efik prince who was outed as gay.
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu
Godwin Harrison (in black) on set

December 6, 2024

The Prodigious Arrival of Arinze Ifeakandu

In an era of unearned hype, the novelistic short stories of God’s Children Are Little Broken Things established him as a major talent, earning him the Dylan Thomas Prize. But as potent as fiction is in combating queer erasure, he believes in the supplement of living openly.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Arinze Ifeakandu for Open Country Mag

December 5, 2024

With the S16 Film Festival, an Arthouse Collective Locks Its Focus

A trio of young filmmakers banded together as the Surreal16 Collective, to resist Nollywood clichés. At their festival, Michael Omonua, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, and Abba T. Makama curate a haven for unorthodox filmmakers.
Michael Aromolaran
Rungano Nyoni's Canne selection On Becoming a Guinea Fowl will open the 2024 Surreal16 Festival.

November 25, 2024

A Navy Pilot Pivoted to Writing, Spurred by Surrealists

While flying military helicopters, Umar Abubakar Sidi wrote the two top-selling poetry books in Nigeria. Now he has a novel. One day, he will write about military life: “It is a reality I cannot escape.”
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
Umar Abubakar Sidi's two collections were the Nos. 1 and 2 bestselling poetry books in Nigeria.

November 17, 2024

4 Films Arriving at the End of 2024

A franchise entry from Funke Akindele, another Yoruba historical feature by Femi Adebayo, a supernatural thriller starring Stan Nze, and a romantic flick with Shaffy Bello.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Seven Doors film poster

November 15, 2024

Abi Daré Claims Her Space

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice and And So I Roar on her writing process.
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu
Abi Dare. Supplied.

August 19, 2024

House of Ga’a, Reviewed: The Fall of an Oyo Empire Kingmaker

Bolanle Austen-Peters’ meaty biopic and historical epic about Bashorun Ga’a succeeds in keeping audiences perched on the edge of their seats, aided by good production and Femi Branch’s charisma.
Paula Willie-Okafor

August 19, 2024

Breath of Life, Reviewed: Faith, Redemption, & Male Friendship

A story with significant potential, BB Sasore’s AMVCAs-winning film succeeds in positioning the lives of these two men separated by class, religion, and belief systems, even as it fails to probe the depths of their characters.
Iheoma Uzomba
Breath of Life

August 19, 2024

Francis Cardinal Arinze Is on the August 2024 Cover of Open Country Mag

At 91, the Catholic prelate is the most accomplished living African and Black religious minister, our oldest cover star, and our first outside literature and film.
Otosirieze
Francis Cardinal Arinze Is on the August 2024 Cover of Open Country Mag

August 2, 2024

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: Among Us, Scans of Ancient Nok Art for an AR-scape

Created by the Nigerian artists Vetum Galadima and Amaka Obioma, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, it “combines museum technology and art direction to create a perspective for art preservation.”
Otosirieze
Among Us: A Nok Art Augmented Reality by Amaka Obioma and Vetum Galadima

August 2, 2024

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: It’s Bloom Time, a 3-D Fashion Story Collection

Crafted by the Nigerian designer Izuchukwu Udokwu, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, it weaves fashion, music, and poetry to show that “you don’t have to create physical pieces that would probably end up in the waste bin and contribute to the wastes in our environment.”
Otosirieze
It's Bloom Time: A 3-D Fashion Story by Izuchukwu Onyedibiemma Udokwu

July 26, 2024

Aiwanose Odafen’s Duology of Womanhood

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.
Iheoma Uzomba
Aiwanose Odafen for Open Country Mag

July 25, 2024

Ebrohimie Road, Reviewed: A Literary Legend as Father & Husband

Centred on his former Ibadan residence, family memories of a young militant Wole Soyinka casts strange light on his increasingly contentious legacy as an activist.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

July 25, 2024

At Agbowo & LAA’s Arts and Women Event in Lagos

Reflections on identity and expression in patriarchal Nigeria.
Agbowó
Agbowo and LAA's Arts and Women event in Lagos.

July 22, 2024

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

Ọlájídé Salawu

July 18, 2024

Umuofia Arts and Books Festival 2024 Set for Enugu

Open Country Mag

May 16, 2024

Join SBMEN’s Virtual 4-Weekend Magazine and Digital Course in June 2024

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

February 8, 2025

SBMEN Announces Editorial Practice & Project Management Course in February 2025

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

January 10, 2025

The Nigerian Edition Cover of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dream Count

The Nigerian Edition Cover of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count

Narrative Landscape Press

January 9, 2025

One of the couples featured in This Is Love. The documentary "would have been entirely different if we weren’t concerned about anti-LGBTQ+ laws."

In the Lives of Three Couples, a Vision for Queer Love

The documentary This Is Love shows Nigerians who “live beautiful love stories in a place where the love they share is taboo.” After a Best LGBT Feature win at Brazil’s Bahia Independent Cinema Festival, director and co-producer Victor Ugoo knows that “distribution seems to be the hardest part of filmmaking.”
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu

December 9, 2024

Godwin Harrison (in black) on set

A Small Indie Producer Bets on Social Justice Cinema

Godwin Harrison’s “advocacy-led” HUG Media Concept is “about using cinema to address issues.” His new film Ima’mi is based on his life as an Efik prince who was outed as gay.
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu

December 6, 2024

Arinze Ifeakandu for Open Country Mag

The Prodigious Arrival of Arinze Ifeakandu

In an era of unearned hype, the novelistic short stories of God’s Children Are Little Broken Things established him as a major talent, earning him the Dylan Thomas Prize. But as potent as fiction is in combating queer erasure, he believes in the supplement of living openly.
Paula Willie-Okafor

December 5, 2024

Rungano Nyoni's Canne selection On Becoming a Guinea Fowl will open the 2024 Surreal16 Festival.

With the S16 Film Festival, an Arthouse Collective Locks Its Focus

A trio of young filmmakers banded together as the Surreal16 Collective, to resist Nollywood clichés. At their festival, Michael Omonua, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, and Abba T. Makama curate a haven for unorthodox filmmakers.
Michael Aromolaran

November 25, 2024

Umar Abubakar Sidi's two collections were the Nos. 1 and 2 bestselling poetry books in Nigeria.

A Navy Pilot Pivoted to Writing, Spurred by Surrealists

While flying military helicopters, Umar Abubakar Sidi wrote the two top-selling poetry books in Nigeria. Now he has a novel. One day, he will write about military life: “It is a reality I cannot escape.”
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

November 17, 2024

Seven Doors film poster

4 Films Arriving at the End of 2024

A franchise entry from Funke Akindele, another Yoruba historical feature by Femi Adebayo, a supernatural thriller starring Stan Nze, and a romantic flick with Shaffy Bello.
Paula Willie-Okafor

November 15, 2024

Abi Dare. Supplied.

Abi Daré Claims Her Space

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice and And So I Roar on her writing process.
Orji Victor Ebubechukwu

August 19, 2024

House of Ga’a, Reviewed: The Fall of an Oyo Empire Kingmaker

Bolanle Austen-Peters’ meaty biopic and historical epic about Bashorun Ga’a succeeds in keeping audiences perched on the edge of their seats, aided by good production and Femi Branch’s charisma.
Paula Willie-Okafor

August 19, 2024

Breath of Life

Breath of Life, Reviewed: Faith, Redemption, & Male Friendship

A story with significant potential, BB Sasore’s AMVCAs-winning film succeeds in positioning the lives of these two men separated by class, religion, and belief systems, even as it fails to probe the depths of their characters.
Iheoma Uzomba

August 19, 2024

Francis Cardinal Arinze Is on the August 2024 Cover of Open Country Mag

Francis Cardinal Arinze Is on the August 2024 Cover of Open Country Mag

At 91, the Catholic prelate is the most accomplished living African and Black religious minister, our oldest cover star, and our first outside literature and film.
Otosirieze

August 2, 2024

Among Us: A Nok Art Augmented Reality by Amaka Obioma and Vetum Galadima

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: Among Us, Scans of Ancient Nok Art for an AR-scape

Created by the Nigerian artists Vetum Galadima and Amaka Obioma, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, it “combines museum technology and art direction to create a perspective for art preservation.”
Otosirieze

August 2, 2024

It's Bloom Time: A 3-D Fashion Story by Izuchukwu Onyedibiemma Udokwu

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: It’s Bloom Time, a 3-D Fashion Story Collection

Crafted by the Nigerian designer Izuchukwu Udokwu, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, it weaves fashion, music, and poetry to show that “you don’t have to create physical pieces that would probably end up in the waste bin and contribute to the wastes in our environment.”
Otosirieze

July 26, 2024

Aiwanose Odafen for Open Country Mag

Aiwanose Odafen’s Duology of Womanhood

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.
Iheoma Uzomba

July 25, 2024

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

Ebrohimie Road, Reviewed: A Literary Legend as Father & Husband

Centred on his former Ibadan residence, family memories of a young militant Wole Soyinka casts strange light on his increasingly contentious legacy as an activist.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

July 25, 2024

Agbowo and LAA's Arts and Women event in Lagos.

At Agbowo & LAA’s Arts and Women Event in Lagos

Reflections on identity and expression in patriarchal Nigeria.
Agbowó

July 22, 2024

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

Ọlájídé Salawu

July 18, 2024

Umuofia Arts and Books Festival 2024 Set for Enugu

Open Country Mag

May 16, 2024

Join SBMEN’s Virtual 4-Weekend Magazine and Digital Course in June 2024

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

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