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Demented Protestations and the Search for Definition: Reviewing the 2024 ANA Review | Nzube Nlebedim | Review

by Nzube Nlebedim

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Book Feature April 08, 2025

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News April 08, 2025

Nigerian-British Playwright Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini Receives a Windham-Campbell Prize

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News April 08, 2025

Check Out the Longlist for the 2025 Afritondo Short Story Prize!

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News April 07, 2025

Black Orpheus Journal Now Publicly Available as a Digital Archive

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Nigerian-Canadian Professor Dr. Irehobhude Iyioha Receives King Charles III Coronation Medal

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Stories and Poems April 07, 2025

I’m Going to Write About Plants | Yannick Mutombo | Fiction

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NEWS

News April 04, 2025

Neneh Cherry’s Memoir Makes the Shortlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize

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News March 31, 2025

The 2025 Island Prize Longlist is Out!

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News March 31, 2025

Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel is the March Selection for Jenna Bush Hager’s Book Club

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3 African Works Make the Shortlist for the 2024 British Science Fiction Awards

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Vuyokazi Ngemntu Receives Pan Macmillan South Africa’s 2025 Chris van Wyk Bursary!

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STORIES & POEMS

Stories and Poems April 02, 2025

Beautiful Scars | Oluwatomiloba Adejumobi | Fiction

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The Little Things | Sumaiyah Muhammad Salisu | Fiction

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Maybe the Past Can Remain in Present Tense | Muheez Olawale | Fiction

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Garden Variety II | Anthony Ikeh | Poetry

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