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Demagoguery and Patriotism

by Sam Wilkins

Download as PDFIdi Amin once promised to “make Uganda move once again.” The slogan never caught on like today’s political catchphrases, but the ambition feels familiar. In a moment when strongman politics is resurgent around the world, historian Derek Peterson asks a simple but unsettling question: why did so many ordinary Ugandans believe in Amin […]

What We Download When the Libraries Are Empty

by Ajibola Adigun

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

A Poet and His Nation in Flight

by Ifesinachi Nwadike

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

In Dream Count, Adichie Denies Us Catharsis

by Chideraa Ike-Akaenyi

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

by Olayinka Oyegbile

On Lineage and Voice

by Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto

child of my mother

by Sodïq Oyèkànmí

Does the Body Ever Get Familiar with Grief?

by Adebimpe ADEYEMI

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
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  • A Poet and His Nation in Flight
  • What We Download When the Libraries Are Empty
  • Demagoguery and Patriotism
  • The New Soul of the Nigerian Anthologies
  • The New Anthology of Young African & African American Poetry