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The Gravity of Daughterhood

by Gloria Mwaniga Odary

Download as PDFThe daughter who works closest to home/the teacher/the one with a lot of time on her hands & long holidays/is the one all siblings send/Mpesa contributions for home projects/is the one who must study fundi’s face for honesty/evaluate sketched designs of sewer systems/measure circumferences of manholes/hire pickups to carry pvc pipes from mitra […]

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

A Poet and His Nation in Flight

by Ifesinachi Nwadike

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

by Ernest Jésùyẹmí

Meet OlongoAfrica’s Translation Editor

by Olongo Africa

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

In Dream Count, Adichie Denies Us Catharsis

by Chideraa Ike-Akaenyi

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

by Olayinka Oyegbile
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  • The Gravity of Daughterhood
  • Curses, Cycles, and Wounds in Cursed Daughters 
  • Beyond the Spectacle
  • The Shape of My Anxiety
  • “Playing Bàtá in My Poetry”: A Conversation with Ifeoluwa Ayandele