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In Dream Count, Adichie Denies Us Catharsis

by Chideraa Ike-Akaenyi

Download as PDFNovels often build toward closure, offering readers a resolution or tying loose ends, but in Dream Count, Adichie resists this expectation. She leaves you with crescendoed emotions, emphasising her central concern: the elusive nature of dreams as mediated through memory. This, alongside the novel’s interrogation of how privilege grants and strips women of […]

Nigerian Literature is Dead (Again)

by Tolu Daniel

AFCON, Literature, and Distant Kilns

by James Yeku

A review of “The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule”

by Olayinka Oyegbile

On Lineage and Voice

by Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto

Does the Body Ever Get Familiar with Grief?

by Adebimpe ADEYEMI

child of my mother

by Sodïq Oyèkànmí

Outside Borders

by Star Zahra

Mbari: Interrogating the Place of Space in African Art

by Koso Agboanike

Agema and The Writer as a Repository of Memory

by Paul Liam

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

by Mosunmola Adeojo

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

Black Orpheus Dispatch: On Re-Using History

by Shalom Kasim

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
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  • AFCON, Literature, and Distant Kilns
  • Nigerian Literature is Dead (Again)
  • In Dream Count, Adichie Denies Us Catharsis
  • A review of “The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule”
  • On Lineage and Voice