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

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Download as PDFBorn in Tede, Nigeria, Ifeoluwa Ayandele is a poet with work in Callaloo, Poetry London, Magma, Michigan Quarterly Review, among other publications. Besides being shortlisted for the Wisconsin Poetry Series’ Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prize and the 2024 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Poetry, he has received the 2026 Pink Poetry Prize […]

Demagoguery and Patriotism

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What We Download When the Libraries Are Empty

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The New Soul of the Nigerian Anthologies

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The New Anthology of Young African & African American Poetry

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Meet OlongoAfrica’s Translation Editor

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A Poet and His Nation in Flight

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

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OlongoAfrica Launches Vol. 2 of Multi-Lingua Anthology

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A Mind at Full Stretch: Remembering Bíọ́dún Jéyǐfó

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On Fela, Wizkid, and the Politics of Afrobeats

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

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The Panenka’s Paradox

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Call for Submissions: A Black Orpheus Companion 

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Call for Applications: Translation Editor (Lingua Project)

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Call for Poetry Anthology Contribution

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Pivotal Sophomores in Nigerian Poetry

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AFCON, Literature, and Distant Kilns

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Nigerian Literature is Dead (Again)

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In Dream Count, Adichie Denies Us Catharsis

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

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On Lineage and Voice

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child of my mother

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Does the Body Ever Get Familiar with Grief?

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Outside Borders

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Mbari: Interrogating the Place of Space in African Art

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