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March 9, 2021

Sefi Atta’s Swallow Is Being Adapted for Netflix by Kunle Afolayan, with Niyola as Lead

It will be the first screenwriting credit for the Nigerian novelist, who co-wrote with Afolayan.
Otosirieze
Sefi Atta. From Sefi Atta's Facebook page.

March 8, 2021

Masobe Books Calls for Fiction Manuscript Submissions

“There is a lot of literary talent out there,” said founder Othuke Ominiabohs. “It is our strong desire to find these gems, to give them a home, so together we can build something noble and beautiful.”
Masobe Books
TJ Benson's The Madhouse is the latest book from Masobe Books.

March 5, 2021

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

“I wanted to write a book that seeks to find wonder in the least likely of places,” said Turaki, whose writing earned praise from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Otosirieze
Umar Turaki by Musa Tukurah.

March 5, 2021

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

Gbolahan’s The Other Names of Grief, which “shows us the way to survival,” and Gaji’s The Script of Bruises, about “space and belonging,” are now available in Nigeria.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan's The Other Names of Grief; from Konya Shamsrumi.

March 2, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Just Lost Her Mother

Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie was the first female registrar of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her passing comes eight months after her husband’s.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie. From the Guardian.

February 18, 2021

#ENDSARS: Documenting Words and Actions for Posterity

Praxis Magazine invites all creatives partaking in this fight to submit non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and visual art on the momentous protests.
Praxis Magazine
One of the several viral images from the EndSARS protests; from @theayochase.

February 11, 2021

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Appointed Programme Director of Yorùbá Academy

It is “one of the crucial places to make archival, research, literary content in Yorùbá available to the general public, scholars, and students,” the Nigerian linguist and writer says.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún by Ayobami Ogungbe.

February 11, 2021

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

Notes on Grief will explore collective mourning through the late James Nwoye Adichie’s life as a Biafran War survivor and statistics professor.
Otosirieze
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Notes on Grief.

February 4, 2021

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

The book, which won the Little, Brown/UEA Crime Fiction Award in 2019, is the first in an investigative series focused on Dr Philip K. Taiwo.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Femi Kayode's Lightseekers. From @holly_watt on Twitter.

January 28, 2021

Novelists Emmanuel Iduma & Ayobami Adebayo Are Married, Share Love Letters

Iduma revealed their relationship in a beautiful letter on Instagram: “I should begin with how long I’ve loved you, to what extent, and with what intensity.”
Otosirieze
Ayobami Adebayo and Emmanuel Iduma. From @emmaiduma on Instagram.

January 24, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi’s Debut Memoir, Dear Senthuran, Chronicles the Self & Black Spirituality

The Nigerian novelist’s debut book of nonfiction “weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, and the turmoil of relationships.”
Ernest Ogunyemi
Akwaeke Emezi. From @azemezi on Instagram.

January 23, 2021

For 13 Years, Nigeria’s DSS Targeted Novelist Okey Ndibe. Now, He Might Push Back

“It’s amazing that any government would put writers like me on a list of enemies of the Nigerian state,” he says. “A writer who calls out corruption could not be an enemy of the state.”
Otosirieze
Okey Ndibe by Rex Features/Associated Press.

January 19, 2021

5 Nigerian Spoken Word Albums You Should Listen To

. . . by RezThaPoet, Vector, Wana Udobang, Shegzrhymz, and Titilope Sonuga.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 18, 2021

Nigerian Poet Wins Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize

Wale Ayinla’s To Cast a Dream will now be published by Jai-Alai Books.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Wale Ayinla. From Wale Ayinla.

January 15, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is Hosting a Giveaway

Read her short story, “Olikoye,” and you might win.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

January 14, 2021

Read Chimamanda’s Answers in Half of a Yellow Sun Read Along

#ReadAlongWithChimamanda was a weekly session where readers asked questions about her Women’s Prize-winning book.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by The Women's Prize for Fiction.

January 12, 2021

Saddiq Dzukogi’s Poetry Collection Your Crib, My Qibla Explores Fatherhood & Loss

The book, praised by Kwame Dawes, Ilya Kaminsky, and Matthew Shenoda, is a “dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter.”
Ernest Ogunyemi
Your Crib, My Qibla by Saddiq Dzukogi.

January 9, 2021

Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka Review—A Sobering Stare at the World

The Nigerian poet takes readers on a spiraling, sobering journey, full of humility and restrained passion.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Waterman by Echezona Nduka. Credit: Griots Lounge.

January 8, 2021

After 3 Books in 3 Years, Logan February Is Youngest Winner at The Future Awards Africa

Still only 21, the Nigerian poet-musician, author of Mannequin in the Nude, is writing, singing, and ascending on a path all their own.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Logan February. From Logan February.

December 30, 2020

Jerry Chiemeke’s Debut, Dreaming of Ways to Understand You, Out in Print

The story collection “chronicles the dreams and desperations of a disillusioned demographic.”
Otosirieze
Dreaming of Ways to Understand You by Jerry Chiemeke. Credit: Jerry Chiemeke.

March 9, 2021

Sefi Atta. From Sefi Atta's Facebook page.

Sefi Atta’s Swallow Is Being Adapted for Netflix by Kunle Afolayan, with Niyola as Lead

It will be the first screenwriting credit for the Nigerian novelist, who co-wrote with Afolayan.
Otosirieze

March 8, 2021

TJ Benson's The Madhouse is the latest book from Masobe Books.

Masobe Books Calls for Fiction Manuscript Submissions

“There is a lot of literary talent out there,” said founder Othuke Ominiabohs. “It is our strong desire to find these gems, to give them a home, so together we can build something noble and beautiful.”
Masobe Books

March 5, 2021

Umar Turaki by Musa Tukurah.

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

“I wanted to write a book that seeks to find wonder in the least likely of places,” said Turaki, whose writing earned praise from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Otosirieze

March 5, 2021

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

Gbolahan’s The Other Names of Grief, which “shows us the way to survival,” and Gaji’s The Script of Bruises, about “space and belonging,” are now available in Nigeria.
Ernest Ogunyemi

March 2, 2021

Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie. From the Guardian.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Just Lost Her Mother

Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie was the first female registrar of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her passing comes eight months after her husband’s.
Ernest Ogunyemi

February 18, 2021

One of the several viral images from the EndSARS protests; from @theayochase.

#ENDSARS: Documenting Words and Actions for Posterity

Praxis Magazine invites all creatives partaking in this fight to submit non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and visual art on the momentous protests.
Praxis Magazine

February 11, 2021

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún by Ayobami Ogungbe.

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Appointed Programme Director of Yorùbá Academy

It is “one of the crucial places to make archival, research, literary content in Yorùbá available to the general public, scholars, and students,” the Nigerian linguist and writer says.
Ernest Ogunyemi

February 11, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Notes on Grief.

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

Notes on Grief will explore collective mourning through the late James Nwoye Adichie’s life as a Biafran War survivor and statistics professor.
Otosirieze

February 4, 2021

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

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

The book, which won the Little, Brown/UEA Crime Fiction Award in 2019, is the first in an investigative series focused on Dr Philip K. Taiwo.
Uzoma Ihejirika

January 28, 2021

Ayobami Adebayo and Emmanuel Iduma. From @emmaiduma on Instagram.

Novelists Emmanuel Iduma & Ayobami Adebayo Are Married, Share Love Letters

Iduma revealed their relationship in a beautiful letter on Instagram: “I should begin with how long I’ve loved you, to what extent, and with what intensity.”
Otosirieze

January 24, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi. From @azemezi on Instagram.

Akwaeke Emezi’s Debut Memoir, Dear Senthuran, Chronicles the Self & Black Spirituality

The Nigerian novelist’s debut book of nonfiction “weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, and the turmoil of relationships.”
Ernest Ogunyemi

January 23, 2021

Okey Ndibe by Rex Features/Associated Press.

For 13 Years, Nigeria’s DSS Targeted Novelist Okey Ndibe. Now, He Might Push Back

“It’s amazing that any government would put writers like me on a list of enemies of the Nigerian state,” he says. “A writer who calls out corruption could not be an enemy of the state.”
Otosirieze

January 19, 2021

5 Nigerian Spoken Word Albums You Should Listen To

. . . by RezThaPoet, Vector, Wana Udobang, Shegzrhymz, and Titilope Sonuga.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 18, 2021

Wale Ayinla. From Wale Ayinla.

Nigerian Poet Wins Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize

Wale Ayinla’s To Cast a Dream will now be published by Jai-Alai Books.
Ernest Ogunyemi

January 15, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is Hosting a Giveaway

Read her short story, “Olikoye,” and you might win.
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 14, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by The Women's Prize for Fiction.

Read Chimamanda’s Answers in Half of a Yellow Sun Read Along

#ReadAlongWithChimamanda was a weekly session where readers asked questions about her Women’s Prize-winning book.
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 12, 2021

Your Crib, My Qibla by Saddiq Dzukogi.

Saddiq Dzukogi’s Poetry Collection Your Crib, My Qibla Explores Fatherhood & Loss

The book, praised by Kwame Dawes, Ilya Kaminsky, and Matthew Shenoda, is a “dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter.”
Ernest Ogunyemi

January 9, 2021

Waterman by Echezona Nduka. Credit: Griots Lounge.

Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka Review—A Sobering Stare at the World

The Nigerian poet takes readers on a spiraling, sobering journey, full of humility and restrained passion.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 8, 2021

Logan February. From Logan February.

After 3 Books in 3 Years, Logan February Is Youngest Winner at The Future Awards Africa

Still only 21, the Nigerian poet-musician, author of Mannequin in the Nude, is writing, singing, and ascending on a path all their own.
Ernest Ogunyemi

December 30, 2020

Dreaming of Ways to Understand You by Jerry Chiemeke. Credit: Jerry Chiemeke.

Jerry Chiemeke’s Debut, Dreaming of Ways to Understand You, Out in Print

The story collection “chronicles the dreams and desperations of a disillusioned demographic.”
Otosirieze

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