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

by ’Joba Ojelabi

Download as PDFIn 2024, Asake released Active, one of the standout tracks from Lungu Boy. For many listeners, it was another demonstration of the sonic confidence that has come to define his music: log drums colliding with layered percussion, clipped chants giving way to melodic refrains, and a vocal performance that oscillates between swagger and […]

Bongo Fleva: A Love Story

by Frank Njugi

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

by Ugochukwu Anadị

Badagry and Its Botanical Revolutions

by Ṣeun Ṣedẹ Williams

The Gravity of Daughterhood

by Gloria Mwaniga Odary

Curses, Cycles, and Wounds in Cursed Daughters 

by Mosunmola Adeojo

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

by Olongo Press

Excerpts: Flora’s Love Colony

by Tares Oburumu

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

by Olongo Press

Jomo

by Ifesinachi Nwadike

The Nigeria Prize for Literature Unveils 2026 Poetry Longlist

by Olongo Press

​The Sacred Mystery of Ikorodu

by Bienose Goodness

Two Poems

by  Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo

Gratitude for Being Haunted by a Reverent Destiny

by Adebayo Aderoju

 A Brother Jero Opera by Vesta Orchestra

by Tope-EniObanke Adegoke

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

by Olongo Press

The Tobeness of Tobe

by Ogieva Uyiosa Victory

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

by Olongo Press

Reading the Oyinbo Wall in Nigerian Football

by James Yeku

On Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s The Naming

by Ifesinachi Nwadike

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
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  • Beyond “Influence”: The Many Lives of Fuji in Afrobeats
  • New York Black and African Literature Festival Returns to Harlem This September
  • Excerpts: Flora’s Love Colony
  •  Press Release: The New Anthology of Young African and African American Poetry
  • Jomo