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Bongo Fleva: A Love Story

by Frank Njugi

Download as PDFCW: Depictions of violence The first time I hear Cinderella, Mother is crying slow, deliberate tears that gather at the corners of her eyes before releasing themselves down the steep ridge of her cheekbone. Each one catches the fractured afternoon light like something briefly precious before vanishing into the collar of her kanga, […]

On Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s The Naming

by Ifesinachi Nwadike

The Gravity of Daughterhood

by Gloria Mwaniga Odary

Curses, Cycles, and Wounds in Cursed Daughters 

by Mosunmola Adeojo

Beyond the Spectacle

by Tolu Daniel

The Shape of My Anxiety

by Raphael Chukwuemeka Onyejizu

“Playing Bàtá in My Poetry”: A Conversation with Ifeoluwa Ayandele

by Ernest Jésùyẹmí

Meet OlongoAfrica’s Translation Editor

by Olongo Africa

A Poet and His Nation in Flight

by Ifesinachi Nwadike

What We Download When the Libraries Are Empty

by Ajibola Adigun

Demagoguery and Patriotism

by Sam Wilkins

The New Soul of the Nigerian Anthologies

by Paul Liam

The New Anthology of Young African & African American Poetry

by Olongo Press

Petrel Among the Interpreters: Bíọ́dún Jéyǐfò in Nigeria’s Intellectual Storms

by Deji Toye

OlongoAfrica Launches Vol. 2 of Multi-Lingua Anthology

by Iyanuoluwa Adenle

A Mind at Full Stretch: Remembering Bíọ́dún Jéyǐfó

by Ṣọlá Adéyẹmí

On Fela, Wizkid, and the Politics of Afrobeats

by  Tobi Idowu

 Poetics of the Abject in Adedayo Agarau’s The Years of Blood

by Káyọ̀dé Ayọ̀bámi

The Panenka’s Paradox

by James Yeku

Call for Submissions: A Black Orpheus Companion 

by Olongo Africa

Call for Applications: Translation Editor (Lingua Project)

by Olongo Africa

Call for Poetry Anthology Contribution

by Olongo Press

Pivotal Sophomores in Nigerian Poetry

by E. E. Sule

AFCON, Literature, and Distant Kilns

by James Yeku

Nigerian Literature is Dead (Again)

by Tolu Daniel
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  • Bongo Fleva: A Love Story
  • On Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s The Naming
  • The Gravity of Daughterhood
  • Curses, Cycles, and Wounds in Cursed Daughters 
  • Beyond the Spectacle