Lagos’s experimental arts festival Afropolis is returning for its 5th edition from 22–30 November 2025, alongside the launch of our new journal, The Afropolis. They invite artists, writers, performers, musicians, filmmakers, digital creators, and thinkers to submit works that imagine OTHER WORLDS, real and imagined spaces that challenge the limits of the familiar.

This year’s theme, Other Worlds, invites work that reimagines home, ancestry, survival, and the future. Submissions can respond to any of their four curatorial pathways, inspired by Yorùbá cosmology:

  • Aiye (The Living) – Works exploring home, land, displacement, memory, and our relationship with the more‑than‑human world.

  • Orita (The Crossroads) – Stories of migration, thresholds, and creative survival at life’s intersections.

  • Orun (The Ancestors) – Rituals, legends, spiritual practices, and ancestral knowledge that guide new possibilities.

  • Egbe (Kindred Spirits) – Speculative worlds, children’s visions, alternative realities, and collective futures.

The welcome essays, poetry, visual art, performance, music, film, multimedia, digital experiments, DJ sets, scripts, and other imaginative work.

Submit your work at website by August 15, 2025.