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June 27, 2022

Where Diriye Osman Draws His Flamboyance

With his queerness and community as shield, the Somali writer is the rare artist who considers himself art. “We can be as weird and wonderful and brilliant and badass as we want to be,” he says in his first in-depth interview in eight years.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Diriye Osman by Diriye Osman

September 6, 2021

A Novelist Entered Literary Curation, Still Honouring Her Feminist Roots

Ukamaka Olisakwe’s novels, including the latest Ogadinma, narrate womanhood in Nigeria. Last year, she started a magazine, Isele, named after her artist grandmother.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Ukamaka Olisakwe. Credit: Ukamaka Olisakwe.

April 2, 2021

TJ Benson Holds History and Hope

Thirteen years after he started it, his debut novel The Madhouse finally arrives. This chronicle of the ‘90s, set in northern Nigeria, broadens the familiar for the 29-year-old.
Ernest Ogunyemi
TJ Benson by Nelson Apocho.

March 19, 2021

Mark Gevisser’s Long Mission of Queer Visibility

In his most recent book, The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers, the South African journalist and activist shows a world in redescription. And he has been doing that for decades, engaging power and who wields it and who is abused by it.
Otosirieze
Mark Gevisser (R) and Tiwonge "Aunty" Chimbalanga (L) at the Khlulisa Community Garden, where she works. Credit: Ellen Elmendorp.

February 5, 2021

How Lanaire Aderemi Adapted Women’s Resistance into Art

Inspired by anticolonialist feminist movements, the Nigerian performer set out to honour them in community-centered theatre. Her latest show is Story Story.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Lanaire Aderemi.

February 5, 2021

Hannah Chukwu’s Call to Help Uplift Unheard Voices

How Hamish Hamilton’s 24-year-old Nigerian British talent went from a historic heading of an Oxford college to editing Booker Prize winners Bernardine Evaristo and Marlon James, to broadening her diversity advocacy.
Otosirieze
Hannah Chukwu.

December 26, 2020

Nigerian Literature Needed Editors. Two Women Stepped in To Groom Them.

With Society of Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN), two publishers, Anwuli Ojogwu of Narrative Landscape and Enajite Efemuaye, formerly of Kachifo, are laying foundation for the future.
Otosirieze
Anwuli Ojogwu. From Anwuli Ojogwu.

June 27, 2022

Diriye Osman by Diriye Osman

Where Diriye Osman Draws His Flamboyance

With his queerness and community as shield, the Somali writer is the rare artist who considers himself art. “We can be as weird and wonderful and brilliant and badass as we want to be,” he says in his first in-depth interview in eight years.
Uzoma Ihejirika

September 6, 2021

Ukamaka Olisakwe. Credit: Ukamaka Olisakwe.

A Novelist Entered Literary Curation, Still Honouring Her Feminist Roots

Ukamaka Olisakwe’s novels, including the latest Ogadinma, narrate womanhood in Nigeria. Last year, she started a magazine, Isele, named after her artist grandmother.
Paula Willie-Okafor

April 2, 2021

TJ Benson by Nelson Apocho.

TJ Benson Holds History and Hope

Thirteen years after he started it, his debut novel The Madhouse finally arrives. This chronicle of the ‘90s, set in northern Nigeria, broadens the familiar for the 29-year-old.
Ernest Ogunyemi

March 19, 2021

Mark Gevisser (R) and Tiwonge "Aunty" Chimbalanga (L) at the Khlulisa Community Garden, where she works. Credit: Ellen Elmendorp.

Mark Gevisser’s Long Mission of Queer Visibility

In his most recent book, The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers, the South African journalist and activist shows a world in redescription. And he has been doing that for decades, engaging power and who wields it and who is abused by it.
Otosirieze

February 5, 2021

Lanaire Aderemi.

How Lanaire Aderemi Adapted Women’s Resistance into Art

Inspired by anticolonialist feminist movements, the Nigerian performer set out to honour them in community-centered theatre. Her latest show is Story Story.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

February 5, 2021

Hannah Chukwu.

Hannah Chukwu’s Call to Help Uplift Unheard Voices

How Hamish Hamilton’s 24-year-old Nigerian British talent went from a historic heading of an Oxford college to editing Booker Prize winners Bernardine Evaristo and Marlon James, to broadening her diversity advocacy.
Otosirieze

December 26, 2020

Anwuli Ojogwu. From Anwuli Ojogwu.

Nigerian Literature Needed Editors. Two Women Stepped in To Groom Them.

With Society of Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN), two publishers, Anwuli Ojogwu of Narrative Landscape and Enajite Efemuaye, formerly of Kachifo, are laying foundation for the future.
Otosirieze

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