Nigeria

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.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.”

5 Nigerian Spoken Word Albums You Should Listen To

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

Nigerian Poet Wins Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is Hosting a Giveaway

Read her short story, “Olikoye,” and you might win.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.”

Nwando Achebe on Her New Book, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa

Abuja Literary and Arts Festival

December 26, 2020

Nsukka Is Burning Review—How a Small University Town Influenced Nigerian Literature

BBC Radio 4 audio documentary explores the impact of place on writers out of Nsukka, from the Civil War generation to the present-day.

Kathēkon, the Nigerian Organisation Founded to Fund Change

It will “provide grants to organisations seeking to transform society through evidence-driven investments in education, social welfare, and civil society.”

Remembering the Speech That Ken Saro-Wiwa Wasn’t Allowed to Read at His Execution

“We all stand before history,” it reads. “I predict that scene here would be played and replayed by generations unborn. By our actions we have denigrated our country and jeopardised the future of our children.”

Ernest Ogunyemi

December 26, 2020

Nigerian Literature Needed Editors. Two Women Stepped in To Groom Them.

With Society of Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN), two publishers, Anwuli Ojogwu of Narrative Landscape and Enajite Efemuaye, formerly of Kachifo, are laying foundation for the future.

Otosirieze

December 26, 2020

The 2020 Freedom Awards Honour LGBTQ & Feminist Advocates

Olumide Makanjuola, Matthew Blaise, Mariam Sule, Zikoko Magazine, and State of Emergency GBV Movement named winners by TIERS.

Otosirieze

December 26, 2020

Transcendence by Wana Udobang Review—Woman in the Light

Like her previous spoken word and poetry albums, Dirty Laundry and In Memory of Forgetting, this is a feminist work, but it is the flair of the storytelling and music that makes the album tick.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

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

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

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

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.”