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December 5, 2024

With the S16 Film Festival, an Arthouse Collective Locks Its Focus

A trio of young filmmakers banded together as the Surreal16 Collective, to resist Nollywood clichés. At their festival, Michael Omonua, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, and Abba T. Makama curate a haven for unorthodox filmmakers.
Michael Aromolaran
Rungano Nyoni's Canne selection On Becoming a Guinea Fowl will open the 2024 Surreal16 Festival.

July 25, 2024

At Agbowo & LAA’s Arts and Women Event in Lagos

Reflections on identity and expression in patriarchal Nigeria.
Agbowó
Agbowo and LAA's Arts and Women event in Lagos.

June 10, 2022

Photos: Arinze Ifeakandu’s Book Launch in New York City (Exclusive)

The Nigerian writer was in conversation with Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, discussing his debut short story collection God’s Children Are Little Broken Things.
Open Country Mag
Photos from Arinze Ifeakandu's Book Launch by Ebenezer Agu (42)

January 11, 2022

On an Eastern Nigerian Campus, a New Literary Hotspot

In Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, writers are gathering to converse and perform at Eagle Nest Book Club. “It is likely we have created something that will outstay us in this place,” said the founders.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera and Mark Anthony Obumneme Osuchukwu, founders of Eagle Nest Book Club.

December 11, 2021

Five Nigerians Seek Guinness World Record with 480-Hour Reading Marathon

“The major goal for me isn’t so much breaking the Guinness records,” one of them, Bayode Olawunmi-Treasures, has said: “it is to make reading great again.”
Uzoma Ihejirika
Bayode Olawunmi-Treasures read aloud for 120 hours and over five days in 2018, setting a Guinness World Record.

December 10, 2021

Panels, Performances, and a Million-Naira Slam: At the Lagos Poetry Festival 2021

A recap, with photos, of the four-day Lagos International Poetry Festival 2021, staging a comeback post-pandemic lockdown.
Creative Africa
Lagos International Poetry Festival 2021. Photo by LIPFest Media Team (16)

November 9, 2021

From Nigeria to Canada, an Indie Publisher’s Steps

With a planned bookstore in North America, Griots Lounge Publishing is “trying to represent unheard voices,” says founder Bibi Ukonu.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Bibi Ukonu. Photo credit: Griots Lounge.

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.

June 25, 2021

Cameroon’s New Literary Generation Comes of Age, as Anglophone Crisis Deepens

The central African country’s two politico-cultural systems clashed from the beginning. But in the last 10 years, literary production increased and a conscious community formed, and at the heart of it is Bakwa Magazine.
Otosirieze
Cameroonian writers (L-R): Howard Meh-Buh Maximus, Louisa Lum, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, Nelson Kamkuimo, Monique Kwachou; Dzekashu MacViban, Nana Nkweti.

April 2, 2021

The Making of Songs We Learn from Trees, the First Anthology of Amharic Poetry in English

How Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje filled a gap in Ethiopian literature.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Songs We Learn from Trees. From Carcanet Press.

December 5, 2024

Rungano Nyoni's Canne selection On Becoming a Guinea Fowl will open the 2024 Surreal16 Festival.

With the S16 Film Festival, an Arthouse Collective Locks Its Focus

A trio of young filmmakers banded together as the Surreal16 Collective, to resist Nollywood clichés. At their festival, Michael Omonua, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, and Abba T. Makama curate a haven for unorthodox filmmakers.
Michael Aromolaran

July 25, 2024

Agbowo and LAA's Arts and Women event in Lagos.

At Agbowo & LAA’s Arts and Women Event in Lagos

Reflections on identity and expression in patriarchal Nigeria.
Agbowó

June 10, 2022

Photos from Arinze Ifeakandu's Book Launch by Ebenezer Agu (42)

Photos: Arinze Ifeakandu’s Book Launch in New York City (Exclusive)

The Nigerian writer was in conversation with Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, discussing his debut short story collection God’s Children Are Little Broken Things.
Open Country Mag

January 11, 2022

Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera and Mark Anthony Obumneme Osuchukwu, founders of Eagle Nest Book Club.

On an Eastern Nigerian Campus, a New Literary Hotspot

In Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, writers are gathering to converse and perform at Eagle Nest Book Club. “It is likely we have created something that will outstay us in this place,” said the founders.
Uzoma Ihejirika

December 11, 2021

Bayode Olawunmi-Treasures read aloud for 120 hours and over five days in 2018, setting a Guinness World Record.

Five Nigerians Seek Guinness World Record with 480-Hour Reading Marathon

“The major goal for me isn’t so much breaking the Guinness records,” one of them, Bayode Olawunmi-Treasures, has said: “it is to make reading great again.”
Uzoma Ihejirika

December 10, 2021

Lagos International Poetry Festival 2021. Photo by LIPFest Media Team (16)

Panels, Performances, and a Million-Naira Slam: At the Lagos Poetry Festival 2021

A recap, with photos, of the four-day Lagos International Poetry Festival 2021, staging a comeback post-pandemic lockdown.
Creative Africa

November 9, 2021

Bibi Ukonu. Photo credit: Griots Lounge.

From Nigeria to Canada, an Indie Publisher’s Steps

With a planned bookstore in North America, Griots Lounge Publishing is “trying to represent unheard voices,” says founder Bibi Ukonu.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

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

June 25, 2021

Cameroonian writers (L-R): Howard Meh-Buh Maximus, Louisa Lum, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, Nelson Kamkuimo, Monique Kwachou; Dzekashu MacViban, Nana Nkweti.

Cameroon’s New Literary Generation Comes of Age, as Anglophone Crisis Deepens

The central African country’s two politico-cultural systems clashed from the beginning. But in the last 10 years, literary production increased and a conscious community formed, and at the heart of it is Bakwa Magazine.
Otosirieze

April 2, 2021

Songs We Learn from Trees. From Carcanet Press.

The Making of Songs We Learn from Trees, the First Anthology of Amharic Poetry in English

How Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje filled a gap in Ethiopian literature.
Uzoma Ihejirika

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