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Same Tune, Different Lyrics: A Review of “When I Say Africa”

by Mosunmola Adeojo

Download as PDFReviewer: Mosunmola O. AdeojoDocumentary: When I Say AfricaDirector: Cassandra HerrmanProducers: Cassandra Herrman, Linda Peckham, Kathryn Mathers Africa as backdrop. Africa as a stage. Africa as the set upon which someone else’s life story unfolds, their moral awakening performed, their benevolence practiced. In Cassandra Herrman’s documentary When I Say Africa, we are invited to […]

Black Orpheus Dispatch: On Re-Using History

by Shalom Kasim

Finding Traditions of African Literature in Black Orpheus

by Paul Liam

OlongoAfrica’s Black Orpheus Fellows Selected

by Olongo Africa

Presenting the Digitized Black Orpheus Journals

by Olongo Africa

‘Ever seen a copy of Black Orpheus?’ – Meeting Bruce Onobrakpeya

by Shalom Kasim

Examining Social Dysfunction and Internet Fraud in Ikenna Okeh’s YAHOO! YAHOO!

by Paul Liam

A Continent of Riddles : A Review of Adéṣọ̀kàn’s “South Side”

by Olayinka Oyegbile

From the Prism of Black Orpheus: Mapping the Growth and Development of Discourse on African Literature

by Denja Abdullahi

War Without End in Nigerian Literature | A review of The Road to the Country

by Olayinka Oyegbile

NLNG Finalists for Fiction, 2025

by Olongo Africa

A Psychosocial Reading of Saddiq Dzukogi’s Your Crib, My Qibla

by Paul Liam

The New York Black and African Literature Festival aims to be a bridge | Conversation with Efe Paul Azino

by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Àṣàkẹ́’s Vibe as Gimmick

by IfeOluwa Nihinlola

Longlist for the 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature Announced

by Iyanuoluwa Adenle

On Why Afrobeat Queens are Found Wanting

by Idowu Odeyemi

Best Literary Translations Anthology: A Call for a Co-Editor of Middle Eastern Literatures

by Olongo Africa

The False Crisis of African Literary Estrangement

by Tolu Daniel

“My life has always been based on very deep convictions” || Wole Soyinka in Conversation

by Deji Toye

How Susanne Wenger Turned the World Into a Classroom for a Young Artist

by Shalom Kasim

Black Butterflies

by Rahma Jimoh

Black Orpheus Dispatch: Winding Down

by Shalom Kasim

New York Black & African Literature Fesitval Debuts in September

by Iyanuoluwa Adenle

Ngugi and the Geology of Memory

by Deji Toye

Forging Memories of Moments and Places

by Ndubuisi Martins Aniemeka

The Devil’s Sermon of Ryan Coogler in Sinners

by KÁNYIN Olorunnisola
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