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Counting Down the Holidays: An Anthology of Festive African Writing Vol. III

by Tahzeeb Akram

Features • News October 25, 2018

Cameroonian Scholar Olivette Otele Is the First Black Female History Professor in the UK

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features • News October 25, 2018

Writivism Is Listing 56 Ugandan Writers to Mark the Country’s 56th Independence Anniversary

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features • News October 25, 2018

Ake Festival 2018 Begins, Headlined by Nuruddin Farah, Featuring Paul Beatty, Nnedi Okorafor, Jennifer Makumbi, Frankie Edozien, Mona Eltahawy

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features • News October 22, 2018

Opportunity for African Poets | Enter for the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features • News October 22, 2018

Alain Mabanckou’s 11th Novel, Black Moses, Wins 2018 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Fiction

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features • Interviews • News • Series October 20, 2018

Un-Silencing Queer Nigeria: The Language of Emotional Truth | Five Writers in Conversation

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features • News October 18, 2018

#LIPFest18 | Register for Poetry Workshops with Kwame Dawes, Nick Makoha, Lebo Mashile, and Yomi Sode

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features • News October 18, 2018

The Freedom Artist, Ben Okri’s New Novel Forthcoming in January 2019, Is a Rallying Call in a Post-Truth Society

by Otosirieze Obi-Young