The King of World Beats at 80

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Download as PDFOn the second day of September 2026, the U.S. Mission in Nigeria, through their official X (formerly Twitter) handle, published a hashtag-led tribute to a historical signpost in US-Nigeria relations. For archival accuracy, the post in part:  “#ThisWeekinUSNigeriaHistory in 1983, America’s Billboard 200 welcomed a groundbreaking sound from Nigeria: King Sunny Adé’s Jùjú […]

Beyond “Influence”: The Many Lives of Fuji in Afrobeats

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On Speech and Gender Relations in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

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Badagry and Its Botanical Revolutions

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The Gravity of Daughterhood

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Curses, Cycles, and Wounds in Cursed Daughters 

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Liminal Spaces

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New York Black and African Literature Festival Returns to Harlem This September

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Excerpts: Flora’s Love Colony

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 Press Release: The New Anthology of Young African and African American Poetry

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Jomo

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The Nigeria Prize for Literature Unveils 2026 Poetry Longlist

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​The Sacred Mystery of Ikorodu

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Two Poems

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Gratitude for Being Haunted by a Reverent Destiny

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 A Brother Jero Opera by Vesta Orchestra

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EBROHIMIE ROAD is now Available to Watch Online This July [WATCH HERE]

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The Tobeness of Tobe

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Lagos International Poetry Festival Opens Applications for Inaugural Craft and Development Lab

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Reading the Oyinbo Wall in Nigerian Football

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Bongo Fleva: A Love Story

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On Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s The Naming

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Beyond the Spectacle

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The Shape of My Anxiety

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

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Meet OlongoAfrica’s Translation Editor

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