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November 6, 2021

Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia Awarded 2021 Nigeria Prize for Literature

The academic won the $100,000 for her debut novel The Son of the House. Peter Uche Umezurike won the N1,000,000 literary criticism prize.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. Credit: SprinNG.

November 3, 2021

In Conversation: Uwem Akpan and Helon Habila

Join the Nigerian writers as they discuss Akpan’s new novel New York, My Village.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Uwem Akpan photo © Aaron Mayes

October 27, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi’s Poetry Debut, Content Warning: Everything, Arrives 2022

The novelist’s poems “travel from home to homesickness, tracing desire to surrender and abuse to survival.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Akwaeke Emezi - Content Warning: Everything

October 26, 2021

Visual Artist Osinachi on NFTs, Afrobeats, and Crypto Literature

Africa’s leading crypto artist, who started as a writer, on his two-dimensional collaboration with music producer Don Jazzy, and the potential for literature.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Osinachi, the cryto artist.

September 20, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is in a Different Place Now

Her second novel, the monumental Half of a Yellow Sun, was a major step in her singular cultural exceptionality. Fifteen years on, in Open Country Mag’s first sit-down interview, the great writer and careful thinker looks back, reckoning with her private losses and public evolution.
Otosirieze

September 17, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is on the September 2021 Cover of Open Country Mag

Fifteen years ago, she published Half of a Yellow Sun, her great novel about the Biafran War. In a wide-ranging exclusive sit-down interview with Open Country Mag, she is looking back, feeling the present, and thinking forward.
Otosirieze
Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

September 17, 2021

Kunle Afolayan’s Netflix Adaptation of Sefi Atta’s Swallow Slated for October 1

The screenplay is by the filmmaker and the novelist. Singer Niyola makes her film debut as the lead.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Eniola Akinbo (Niyola) as Tolani Ajao in the forthcoming film adaptation of Swallow. Credit: KapHubNews.

September 13, 2021

Inside Agbowó, a Nigerian Literary and Arts Hub

With a literary magazine, an events platform ArtsnChill, and a new online publishing arm, an arts organisation, Agbowó, continues “to hold a space where it is unnecessary to be someone else.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
At an ArtsnChill event, organized by Agbowo, where the poet Dami Ajayi read. Credit: ArtsnChill.

September 6, 2021

A Novelist Entered Literary Curation, Still Honouring Her Feminist Roots

Ukamaka Olisakwe’s novels, including the latest Ogadinma, narrate womanhood in Nigeria. Last year, she started a magazine, Isele, named after her artist grandmother.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Ukamaka Olisakwe. Credit: Ukamaka Olisakwe.

September 4, 2021

Of This Our Country Audiobook to Be Narrated by Weruche Opia and Oseloka Obi

The two actors of Nigerian descent will narrate HarperCollins’ and The Borough Press’ forthcoming collection of essays by Nigerian writers.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Some writers featured in Of This Our Country.

August 28, 2021

The Quramo Festival of Words 2021 Coming in October

The third edition, themed “Transcendence: Words Defying,” will look at how artists explore issues around the pandemic and cope with its harsh impact on the creative industry.
Quramo Publishing
A cross section of the audience at the Quramo Festival of Words 2019. Credit: Quramo.

August 27, 2021

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s Double Wahala, Double Trouble Collects Stories of Grisly Love and Life

“Perhaps, all I have tried doing in the collection is to track our proclivities for love and hate, intimacy and violence, solidarity and treachery,” the writer and academic said.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Double Wahala, Double Trouble by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

August 24, 2021

Eloghosa Osunde’s Debut Novel, Vagabonds!, Follows a Host of Lagos “Outlaws”

The forthcoming book “traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance,” who “are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city’s dark energy.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Vagabonds by Eloghosa Osunde.

August 19, 2021

Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021 Set for September

Now in its fourth year, ALitFest has become a landmark of Abuja’s cultural scene. The theme this year is “Making Art Work.”
Abuja Literary and Arts Festival
Abuja Literary Festival 2019. From alitfest.com

August 18, 2021

Submissions Open for 2021 SprinNG Women Authors Prize

The award for female Nigerian authors “invests N200,000 in purchasing, distributing, and marketing print copies of their books.”
SprinNG
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. Credit: SprinNG.

August 11, 2021

Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Son of the Storm Is an Epic West African Tale of Magic & Caste

The novel—the first in his epic fantasy trilogy, Nameless Republic, based on 15th century West African empires—has been called “rich, wild, and occasionally dizzying.”
Ernest Ogunyemi
Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Son of the Storm. Credit: Tor.com.

July 30, 2021

“Sankofa”

The third novel from the Nigerian sees a woman search for her father: “The man in the picture was the darkest tint in the human spectrum.”
Chibundu Onuzo
Chibundu Onuzo's Sankofa.

July 28, 2021

Nigerian Editions of Books by Chimamanda Adichie, Veronique Tadjo, & Chibundu Onuzo Set for August 2021

Narrative Landscape Press
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Credit: Narrative Landscape Press.

July 15, 2021

52 Books in 64 Years: Your Guide to Wole Soyinka’s Body of Work

“Only one universal ideology answers human cruelties, the excesses of power, bigotries, social inequalities and alienation: Literature,” wrote Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature, who turned 87 this week.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Wole Soyinka. Credit: University of Oxford.

July 14, 2021

“Information Blackout”: Nigerian Newspapers Protest Censorship with Front Page

The action, by papers including The Nation, Punch, Vanguard, Daily Sun, Nigerian Tribune, ThisDay, and The Guardian, is in response to National Assembly bills meant to stifle press freedom.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
"Information Blackout": Nigerian newspapers stage collective protest.

November 6, 2021

Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. Credit: SprinNG.

Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia Awarded 2021 Nigeria Prize for Literature

The academic won the $100,000 for her debut novel The Son of the House. Peter Uche Umezurike won the N1,000,000 literary criticism prize.
Uzoma Ihejirika

November 3, 2021

Uwem Akpan photo © Aaron Mayes

In Conversation: Uwem Akpan and Helon Habila

Join the Nigerian writers as they discuss Akpan’s new novel New York, My Village.
Uzoma Ihejirika

October 27, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi - Content Warning: Everything

Akwaeke Emezi’s Poetry Debut, Content Warning: Everything, Arrives 2022

The novelist’s poems “travel from home to homesickness, tracing desire to surrender and abuse to survival.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

October 26, 2021

Osinachi, the cryto artist.

Visual Artist Osinachi on NFTs, Afrobeats, and Crypto Literature

Africa’s leading crypto artist, who started as a writer, on his two-dimensional collaboration with music producer Don Jazzy, and the potential for literature.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

September 20, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is in a Different Place Now

Her second novel, the monumental Half of a Yellow Sun, was a major step in her singular cultural exceptionality. Fifteen years on, in Open Country Mag’s first sit-down interview, the great writer and careful thinker looks back, reckoning with her private losses and public evolution.
Otosirieze

September 17, 2021

Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is on the September 2021 Cover of Open Country Mag

Fifteen years ago, she published Half of a Yellow Sun, her great novel about the Biafran War. In a wide-ranging exclusive sit-down interview with Open Country Mag, she is looking back, feeling the present, and thinking forward.
Otosirieze

September 17, 2021

Eniola Akinbo (Niyola) as Tolani Ajao in the forthcoming film adaptation of Swallow. Credit: KapHubNews.

Kunle Afolayan’s Netflix Adaptation of Sefi Atta’s Swallow Slated for October 1

The screenplay is by the filmmaker and the novelist. Singer Niyola makes her film debut as the lead.
Paula Willie-Okafor

September 13, 2021

At an ArtsnChill event, organized by Agbowo, where the poet Dami Ajayi read. Credit: ArtsnChill.

Inside Agbowó, a Nigerian Literary and Arts Hub

With a literary magazine, an events platform ArtsnChill, and a new online publishing arm, an arts organisation, Agbowó, continues “to hold a space where it is unnecessary to be someone else.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

September 6, 2021

Ukamaka Olisakwe. Credit: Ukamaka Olisakwe.

A Novelist Entered Literary Curation, Still Honouring Her Feminist Roots

Ukamaka Olisakwe’s novels, including the latest Ogadinma, narrate womanhood in Nigeria. Last year, she started a magazine, Isele, named after her artist grandmother.
Paula Willie-Okafor

September 4, 2021

Some writers featured in Of This Our Country.

Of This Our Country Audiobook to Be Narrated by Weruche Opia and Oseloka Obi

The two actors of Nigerian descent will narrate HarperCollins’ and The Borough Press’ forthcoming collection of essays by Nigerian writers.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

August 28, 2021

A cross section of the audience at the Quramo Festival of Words 2019. Credit: Quramo.

The Quramo Festival of Words 2021 Coming in October

The third edition, themed “Transcendence: Words Defying,” will look at how artists explore issues around the pandemic and cope with its harsh impact on the creative industry.
Quramo Publishing

August 27, 2021

Double Wahala, Double Trouble by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s Double Wahala, Double Trouble Collects Stories of Grisly Love and Life

“Perhaps, all I have tried doing in the collection is to track our proclivities for love and hate, intimacy and violence, solidarity and treachery,” the writer and academic said.
Paula Willie-Okafor

August 24, 2021

Vagabonds by Eloghosa Osunde.

Eloghosa Osunde’s Debut Novel, Vagabonds!, Follows a Host of Lagos “Outlaws”

The forthcoming book “traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance,” who “are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city’s dark energy.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

August 19, 2021

Abuja Literary Festival 2019. From alitfest.com

Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021 Set for September

Now in its fourth year, ALitFest has become a landmark of Abuja’s cultural scene. The theme this year is “Making Art Work.”
Abuja Literary and Arts Festival

August 18, 2021

Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. Credit: SprinNG.

Submissions Open for 2021 SprinNG Women Authors Prize

The award for female Nigerian authors “invests N200,000 in purchasing, distributing, and marketing print copies of their books.”
SprinNG

August 11, 2021

Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Son of the Storm. Credit: Tor.com.

Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Son of the Storm Is an Epic West African Tale of Magic & Caste

The novel—the first in his epic fantasy trilogy, Nameless Republic, based on 15th century West African empires—has been called “rich, wild, and occasionally dizzying.”
Ernest Ogunyemi

July 30, 2021

Chibundu Onuzo's Sankofa.

“Sankofa”

The third novel from the Nigerian sees a woman search for her father: “The man in the picture was the darkest tint in the human spectrum.”
Chibundu Onuzo

July 28, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Credit: Narrative Landscape Press.

Nigerian Editions of Books by Chimamanda Adichie, Veronique Tadjo, & Chibundu Onuzo Set for August 2021

Narrative Landscape Press

July 15, 2021

Wole Soyinka. Credit: University of Oxford.

52 Books in 64 Years: Your Guide to Wole Soyinka’s Body of Work

“Only one universal ideology answers human cruelties, the excesses of power, bigotries, social inequalities and alienation: Literature,” wrote Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature, who turned 87 this week.
Ernest Ogunyemi

July 14, 2021

"Information Blackout": Nigerian newspapers stage collective protest.

“Information Blackout”: Nigerian Newspapers Protest Censorship with Front Page

The action, by papers including The Nation, Punch, Vanguard, Daily Sun, Nigerian Tribune, ThisDay, and The Guardian, is in response to National Assembly bills meant to stifle press freedom.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

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