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August 19, 2023

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 8

Lolwe

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.
Socrates Mbamalu
Troy Onyango by Jagero.

July 25, 2022

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 6

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.
Lolwe
Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

January 12, 2022

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 4

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.
Lolwe
Lolwe-Issue-4-Cover

June 25, 2021

Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek!

​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.
Otosirieze
Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek!

June 25, 2021

Lolwe Releases Issue 3

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.
Lolwe
Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

January 23, 2021

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 3

. . . to be guest-edited by Elfreda Tetteh, Akhim Alexis, and Stephanie Wanga.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Lolwe Issue 2 cover. Image title: Morrison’s Air. Photography: Ericke Tjiueza. Costume Design: Nicodemus Amwele, Ericke Tjiueza. Model: Jean-Claude Nazarii.

December 26, 2020

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 2

Guest-edited by Gbenga Adesina, Mapule Mohulatsi, and Esther Karin Mngodo, it features fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 19 contributors.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Lolwe Issue 2 cover. Image title: Morrison’s Air. Photography: Ericke Tjiueza. Costume Design: Nicodemus Amwele, Ericke Tjiueza. Model: Jean-Claude Nazarii.

August 5, 2024

A Lack in Liberian Literature

There is no literary bookstore in Africa’s oldest modern country. But, after civil wars and an epidemic, its writers are writing, and hoping.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
A group of Liberian writers attend a reading at the University of Liberia in 2022.

August 2, 2024

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: It’s Bloom Time, a 3-D Fashion Story Collection

Crafted by the Nigerian designer Izuchukwu Udokwu, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, it weaves fashion, music, and poetry to show that “you don’t have to create physical pieces that would probably end up in the waste bin and contribute to the wastes in our environment.”
Otosirieze
It's Bloom Time: A 3-D Fashion Story by Izuchukwu Onyedibiemma Udokwu

July 26, 2024

Aiwanose Odafen’s Duology of Womanhood

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.
Iheoma Uzomba
Aiwanose Odafen for Open Country Mag

May 16, 2024

The Doek Literary Festival in Namibia Announces 2024 Lineup

Doek! Magazine

March 28, 2024

Momtaza Mehri’s Fluid Diasporas

Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world — and her place in it as a Muslim Somali woman.
Iheoma Uzomba
Momtaza Mehri for Open Country Mag.

March 6, 2024

A Poet Imagines Dreams for the Displaced

In Exodus, his debut collection, ‘Gbenga Adeoba threads the histories, migrations, and traumas of people forced to sea.
Iheoma Uzomba
Gbenga Adeoba by Timilehin Alake.

February 13, 2024

African Prizes, Grants, Fellowships, & Magazines to Apply to in 2024

Orji Victor Ebubechukwu

November 28, 2023

The Overlapping Realisms of Eloghosa Osunde

In their debut novel-in-stories Vagabonds!, the Nigerian writer and visual artist pursues an alternate reality of their mind, taking on, among other subjects, social normalcy, gender, and queerness.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
Eloghosa Osunde. Supplied.

November 28, 2023

DK Nnuro Finds His Answers

The Ghanaian American author of What Napoleon Could Not Do, a summer reading pick by Barack Obama, has been thinking about art in our contemporary times.
Adams Adeosun
DK Nnuro

August 15, 2023

“Thrilling and Innovative Ideas”: Open Country Mag Names 6 Curatorial Fellows

The $6,000 initiative, sponsored by Africa No Filter, will fund and support five projects representing West, East, and Southern Africa: a musical and art exhibition, 3D fashion and storytelling, a mixed media project on Nok terracotta, a podcast on LGBTQI+ issues, and a documentary on Nollywood.
Otosirieze
OCM Curatorial Fellows Announcement

December 29, 2022

The 60 Notable Books of 2022

From Warsan Shire, Romeo Oriogun, and Safia Elhillo to Arinze Ifeakandu, Akwaeke Emezi, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chinelo Okparanta: our second annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.
Open Country Mag
The Notable Books of 2022

November 4, 2022

After 2 Years Covering African Literature, Open Country Mag Expands into Film & TV

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.
Otosirieze
OCM Reissues Covers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, Tsitsi Dangarembga, & Maaza Mengiste

August 19, 2023

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 8

Lolwe

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango by Jagero.

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.
Socrates Mbamalu

July 25, 2022

Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 6

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.
Lolwe

January 12, 2022

Lolwe-Issue-4-Cover

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 4

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.
Lolwe

June 25, 2021

Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek!

Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek!

​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.
Otosirieze

June 25, 2021

Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

Lolwe Releases Issue 3

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.
Lolwe

January 23, 2021

Lolwe Issue 2 cover. Image title: Morrison’s Air. Photography: Ericke Tjiueza. Costume Design: Nicodemus Amwele, Ericke Tjiueza. Model: Jean-Claude Nazarii.

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 3

. . . to be guest-edited by Elfreda Tetteh, Akhim Alexis, and Stephanie Wanga.
Uzoma Ihejirika

December 26, 2020

Lolwe Issue 2 cover. Image title: Morrison’s Air. Photography: Ericke Tjiueza. Costume Design: Nicodemus Amwele, Ericke Tjiueza. Model: Jean-Claude Nazarii.

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 2

Guest-edited by Gbenga Adesina, Mapule Mohulatsi, and Esther Karin Mngodo, it features fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 19 contributors.
Uzoma Ihejirika

August 5, 2024

A group of Liberian writers attend a reading at the University of Liberia in 2022.

A Lack in Liberian Literature

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

August 2, 2024

It's Bloom Time: A 3-D Fashion Story by Izuchukwu Onyedibiemma Udokwu

The OCM Curatorial Fellowship Presents: It’s Bloom Time, a 3-D Fashion Story Collection

Crafted by the Nigerian designer Izuchukwu Udokwu, with sponsorship by Africa No Filter, it weaves fashion, music, and poetry to show that “you don’t have to create physical pieces that would probably end up in the waste bin and contribute to the wastes in our environment.”
Otosirieze

July 26, 2024

Aiwanose Odafen for Open Country Mag

Aiwanose Odafen’s Duology of Womanhood

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.
Iheoma Uzomba

May 16, 2024

The Doek Literary Festival in Namibia Announces 2024 Lineup

Doek! Magazine

March 28, 2024

Momtaza Mehri for Open Country Mag.

Momtaza Mehri’s Fluid Diasporas

Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world — and her place in it as a Muslim Somali woman.
Iheoma Uzomba

March 6, 2024

Gbenga Adeoba by Timilehin Alake.

A Poet Imagines Dreams for the Displaced

In Exodus, his debut collection, ‘Gbenga Adeoba threads the histories, migrations, and traumas of people forced to sea.
Iheoma Uzomba

February 13, 2024

African Prizes, Grants, Fellowships, & Magazines to Apply to in 2024

Orji Victor Ebubechukwu

November 28, 2023

Eloghosa Osunde. Supplied.

The Overlapping Realisms of Eloghosa Osunde

In their debut novel-in-stories Vagabonds!, the Nigerian writer and visual artist pursues an alternate reality of their mind, taking on, among other subjects, social normalcy, gender, and queerness.
Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

November 28, 2023

DK Nnuro

DK Nnuro Finds His Answers

The Ghanaian American author of What Napoleon Could Not Do, a summer reading pick by Barack Obama, has been thinking about art in our contemporary times.
Adams Adeosun

August 15, 2023

OCM Curatorial Fellows Announcement

“Thrilling and Innovative Ideas”: Open Country Mag Names 6 Curatorial Fellows

The $6,000 initiative, sponsored by Africa No Filter, will fund and support five projects representing West, East, and Southern Africa: a musical and art exhibition, 3D fashion and storytelling, a mixed media project on Nok terracotta, a podcast on LGBTQI+ issues, and a documentary on Nollywood.
Otosirieze

December 29, 2022

The Notable Books of 2022

The 60 Notable Books of 2022

From Warsan Shire, Romeo Oriogun, and Safia Elhillo to Arinze Ifeakandu, Akwaeke Emezi, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chinelo Okparanta: our second annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.
Open Country Mag

November 4, 2022

OCM Reissues Covers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Damon Galgut, Tsitsi Dangarembga, & Maaza Mengiste

After 2 Years Covering African Literature, Open Country Mag Expands into Film & TV

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

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