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October 13, 2022

The first internship is for graphic design and the second is editorial.

September 17, 2022

These “conversations are as absurd as they are beautiful,” writes the poetry series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi. “This is what literature does: bare life’s absurdity and beauty.”

April 9, 2022

“It’s not just about developing platforms for African poets. What is the bigger picture?” asks the Nigerian poet and editor of the collective. “We are thinking of training, models that feed capacity, that enhance their craft and careers.”

August 20, 2021

“What we bring is a seminal thinking of poetry,” writes the poetry series’ editor-in-chief Ebenezer Agu. “We must recognize the beauty and complexity of this transcreation.”

May 13, 2021

By creating a space to both nurture and pay emerging voices, 20.35 Africa can continue to stand as a home for robust literary support.

February 4, 2021

The anthology is open to African poets between the ages of 20, or who would be 20 by the time of publication, and 35.

January 11, 2021

By publishing poets both at the center and in the margins of the scene, 20.35 Africa has become a major resource institution for African poets.

January 9, 2021

These poems hold some of the most visceral and philosophical stanzas you’ll read in any anthology, in any country.

August 5, 2023

20.35 Africa Vol. VI, edited by Nick Makoha and Safia Jama, is introduced by the series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi: “The poets understand that history evolves with us.”

November 4, 2022

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.

April 8, 2022

Originally planned for December 2021, to mark our first anniversary, our in-depth special issue profiles 16 African writers and curators who have impacted, disrupted, reshaped, and even created literary culture in the last five years.

August 18, 2021

September 18, 2024

20.35 Africa Vol. VII, guest-edited by Kwame Opoku-Duku, is introduced by managing editor Precious Okpechi: “A sense of belonging permeates the poems in this anthology, an acceptance of one’s place in a flawed world.”

June 2, 2021

The 20.35 Africa collective member will use the time to finish her collection of poetry.

August 5, 2024

There is no literary bookstore in Africa’s oldest modern country. But, after civil wars and an epidemic, its writers are writing, and hoping.

July 26, 2024

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.

April 9, 2024

Morality as an uncanny city in Teju Cole’s second novel: “And if we are to think of music as a sort of shield for him, then we are invited to think of his dead friend as having once played that same role in his life.”

October 13, 2022

The first internship is for graphic design and the second is editorial.

September 17, 2022

These “conversations are as absurd as they are beautiful,” writes the poetry series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi. “This is what literature does: bare life’s absurdity and beauty.”

April 9, 2022

“It’s not just about developing platforms for African poets. What is the bigger picture?” asks the Nigerian poet and editor of the collective. “We are thinking of training, models that feed capacity, that enhance their craft and careers.”

August 20, 2021

“What we bring is a seminal thinking of poetry,” writes the poetry series’ editor-in-chief Ebenezer Agu. “We must recognize the beauty and complexity of this transcreation.”

May 13, 2021

By creating a space to both nurture and pay emerging voices, 20.35 Africa can continue to stand as a home for robust literary support.

February 4, 2021

The anthology is open to African poets between the ages of 20, or who would be 20 by the time of publication, and 35.

January 11, 2021

By publishing poets both at the center and in the margins of the scene, 20.35 Africa has become a major resource institution for African poets.

January 9, 2021

These poems hold some of the most visceral and philosophical stanzas you’ll read in any anthology, in any country.

August 5, 2023

20.35 Africa Vol. VI, edited by Nick Makoha and Safia Jama, is introduced by the series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi: “The poets understand that history evolves with us.”

November 4, 2022

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.

April 8, 2022

Originally planned for December 2021, to mark our first anniversary, our in-depth special issue profiles 16 African writers and curators who have impacted, disrupted, reshaped, and even created literary culture in the last five years.

August 18, 2021

The poetry collection was first published by Griots Lounge Publishing Canada.

September 18, 2024

20.35 Africa Vol. VII, guest-edited by Kwame Opoku-Duku, is introduced by managing editor Precious Okpechi: “A sense of belonging permeates the poems in this anthology, an acceptance of one’s place in a flawed world.”

June 2, 2021

The 20.35 Africa collective member will use the time to finish her collection of poetry.

August 5, 2024

There is no literary bookstore in Africa’s oldest modern country. But, after civil wars and an epidemic, its writers are writing, and hoping.

July 26, 2024

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.

April 9, 2024

Morality as an uncanny city in Teju Cole’s second novel: “And if we are to think of music as a sort of shield for him, then we are invited to think of his dead friend as having once played that same role in his life.”

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