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African Festival in Iowa

The African Festival Returns in Iowa City, with Open Country Mag as Official Media Partner

African Festival of Arts and Culture in Iowa City

August 26, 2025

An Igbo Painter Awakens the Native Imagination

The philosophical art world of Chiagoziem Nneamaka Orji.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
Chiagoziem Nneamaka Orji

February 5, 2025

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is on the Host Committee for the MET Gala 2025

Her selection — with LeBron James, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour as chairs — coincides with the rollout of her forthcoming fourth novel Dream Count.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

January 14, 2025

Our Top Stories of 2024

From a groundbreaking Profile of Cardinal Arinze to a feature on Liberia’s lack of a literary bookstore, to the story of a novelist-cum-soldier: these stories of artists and industry shapers in African literature, Nollywood, and culture defined our year.
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Cardinal Arinze celebrates Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of Corpus Christi in London on June 20, 2019. Photo credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

September 27, 2024

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: Luba, an Exhibition on Malawian Flora

Staged by the Malawian artist Mirriam Francesca Nkosi, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, it “focused on preserving, celebrating, and documenting these native plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them.”
Otosirieze
Luba

September 20, 2024

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: One Foot in the Closet, a Podcast for Queer & Beyond-the-Binary Africans

Hosted by the East African activist Name Redacted, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, “conversations like these provide a counter-narrative to predominant Western narratives of ‘coming out.'”
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One Foot in the Closet, Season 2, Episode 1 cover art

August 21, 2024

The Creed of Cardinal Arinze

How a young priest from Onitsha, Nigeria, became the highest-ranking African and Black official of the Roman Catholic Church, and a storied icon of modern apostolicism.
Otosirieze
Cardinal Arinze prepares for Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of Corpus Christi in London on June 20, 2019. Photo credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

August 26, 2025

Chiagoziem Nneamaka Orji

An Igbo Painter Awakens the Native Imagination

The philosophical art world of Chiagoziem Nneamaka Orji.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

February 5, 2025

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is on the Host Committee for the MET Gala 2025

Her selection — with LeBron James, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour as chairs — coincides with the rollout of her forthcoming fourth novel Dream Count.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

January 14, 2025

Cardinal Arinze celebrates Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of Corpus Christi in London on June 20, 2019. Photo credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

Our Top Stories of 2024

From a groundbreaking Profile of Cardinal Arinze to a feature on Liberia’s lack of a literary bookstore, to the story of a novelist-cum-soldier: these stories of artists and industry shapers in African literature, Nollywood, and culture defined our year.
Otosirieze

September 27, 2024

Luba

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: Luba, an Exhibition on Malawian Flora

Staged by the Malawian artist Mirriam Francesca Nkosi, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, it “focused on preserving, celebrating, and documenting these native plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them.”
Otosirieze

September 20, 2024

One Foot in the Closet, Season 2, Episode 1 cover art

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: One Foot in the Closet, a Podcast for Queer & Beyond-the-Binary Africans

Hosted by the East African activist Name Redacted, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, “conversations like these provide a counter-narrative to predominant Western narratives of ‘coming out.'”
Otosirieze

August 21, 2024

Cardinal Arinze prepares for Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of Corpus Christi in London on June 20, 2019. Photo credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

The Creed of Cardinal Arinze

How a young priest from Onitsha, Nigeria, became the highest-ranking African and Black official of the Roman Catholic Church, and a storied icon of modern apostolicism.
Otosirieze

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.
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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.”
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