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July 23, 2021

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head will arrive 11 years after her first chapbook Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth.

July 21, 2021

Watch the Nigerian writers talk the art and state of the modern short story.

July 19, 2021

The event, announced by the Vice Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, will be virtual.

July 14, 2021

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.

July 12, 2021

The event is part of the Museum of the African Diaspora’s “Conversations Across the Diaspora” series.

July 8, 2021

The Nigeria-based writer and editor is shortlisted for his story “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon,” which has been recognized by a slew of international science fiction awards in the U.S. and the U.K.

July 2, 2021

“We want our books to offer a refuge from, an alternative to, and an argument against mainstream culture and mainstream thinking,” says the independent publisher.

July 2, 2021

Winning projects for the $200,000 Fund will be expected to “develop reading culture beyond the classroom in Africa.”

June 25, 2021

​Watch editors Troy Onyango and Rémy Ngamije talk online magazine publishing in Africa. The Instagram Live conversation, to be moderated by Frances Ogamba, is Open Country Mag’s first public event.

June 22, 2021

Solomon Uhiara’s “The Extermination Device of the Blacksmith” connects “our ancient technological practices with modern advancements.” Hearing the Django Unchained actor’s audio performance is “thrilling,” he said.

June 22, 2021

Win £10,000 for your un-agented, unpublished work-in-progress.

June 21, 2021

The $50,000 award, given by the University of Oklahoma-based World Literature Today, has historically predicted future Nobel Prize in Literature winners.

June 18, 2021

We are hosting events, podcasts, and readings in Yaounde, London, and Berlin. Consolidated and recomposed back issues (1-8) will be available for free, and issues 9-10 for sale in physical and eBook formats.

June 18, 2021

The piece, “It Is Obscene,” calls out two former students, one being the novelist Akwaeke Emezi, who “publicly insulted” her, “sent emails and texts that were ignored,” and “decided to go on social media to peddle falsehoods.”

June 17, 2021

The £1,000 award, founded by the Nigerian writer Onyeka Nwelue, is for unpublished manuscripts.

June 15, 2021

“I wanted to talk about the world that was possible in Zambia, in the generations that preceded me and the worlds that transpired in Zambia,” said the author of Kamukanda.

June 9, 2021

The prestigious New England initiative selected the Nigerian writer and former Harvard fellow for his poetry manuscript in progress.

June 9, 2021

The novelist—Open Country Mag’s December 2020 cover star—is recognized for her “unflinching, unswerving gaze,” having “charted the development of Zimbabwe from a British colony to an autocratic and troubled free state.”

June 5, 2021

The categories are fiction, poetry, essays, and flash fiction.

July 23, 2021

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head will arrive 11 years after her first chapbook Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth.

July 21, 2021

Watch the Nigerian writers talk the art and state of the modern short story.

July 19, 2021

The event, announced by the Vice Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, will be virtual.

July 14, 2021

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.

July 12, 2021

The event is part of the Museum of the African Diaspora’s “Conversations Across the Diaspora” series.

July 8, 2021

The Nigeria-based writer and editor is shortlisted for his story “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon,” which has been recognized by a slew of international science fiction awards in the U.S. and the U.K.

July 2, 2021

“We want our books to offer a refuge from, an alternative to, and an argument against mainstream culture and mainstream thinking,” says the independent publisher.

July 2, 2021

Winning projects for the $200,000 Fund will be expected to “develop reading culture beyond the classroom in Africa.”

June 25, 2021

​Watch editors Troy Onyango and Rémy Ngamije talk online magazine publishing in Africa. The Instagram Live conversation, to be moderated by Frances Ogamba, is Open Country Mag’s first public event.

June 22, 2021

Solomon Uhiara’s “The Extermination Device of the Blacksmith” connects “our ancient technological practices with modern advancements.” Hearing the Django Unchained actor’s audio performance is “thrilling,” he said.

June 22, 2021

Win £10,000 for your un-agented, unpublished work-in-progress.

June 21, 2021

The $50,000 award, given by the University of Oklahoma-based World Literature Today, has historically predicted future Nobel Prize in Literature winners.

June 18, 2021

We are hosting events, podcasts, and readings in Yaounde, London, and Berlin. Consolidated and recomposed back issues (1-8) will be available for free, and issues 9-10 for sale in physical and eBook formats.

June 18, 2021

The piece, “It Is Obscene,” calls out two former students, one being the novelist Akwaeke Emezi, who “publicly insulted” her, “sent emails and texts that were ignored,” and “decided to go on social media to peddle falsehoods.”

June 17, 2021

The £1,000 award, founded by the Nigerian writer Onyeka Nwelue, is for unpublished manuscripts.

June 15, 2021

“I wanted to talk about the world that was possible in Zambia, in the generations that preceded me and the worlds that transpired in Zambia,” said the author of Kamukanda.

June 9, 2021

The prestigious New England initiative selected the Nigerian writer and former Harvard fellow for his poetry manuscript in progress.

June 9, 2021

The novelist—Open Country Mag’s December 2020 cover star—is recognized for her “unflinching, unswerving gaze,” having “charted the development of Zimbabwe from a British colony to an autocratic and troubled free state.”

June 5, 2021

The categories are fiction, poetry, essays, and flash fiction.

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