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Call for Submissions: A Black Orpheus Companion 

by Olongo Africa

Download as PDF In 2025, OlongoAfrica embarked on a historic journey to recover, digitize, and restore the complete run of Black Orpheus (1957–1993). For the first time in decades, the journal that defined African modernism—publishing the early works of Leon Damas, Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo, Christopher Okigbo, J.P. Clark, Chinua Achebe and many others […]

Call for Poetry Anthology Contribution

by Olongo Press

AFCON, Literature, and Distant Kilns

by James Yeku

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

by Olayinka Oyegbile

Does the Body Ever Get Familiar with Grief?

by Adebimpe ADEYEMI

In Dream Count, Adichie Denies Us Catharsis

by Chideraa Ike-Akaenyi

The Panenka’s Paradox

by James Yeku

Call for Applications: Translation Editor (Lingua Project)

by Olongo Africa

Pivotal Sophomores in Nigerian Poetry

by E. E. Sule

Nigerian Literature is Dead (Again)

by Tolu Daniel

On Lineage and Voice

by Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto

child of my mother

by Sodïq Oyèkànmí

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

Same Tune, Different Lyrics: A Review of “When I Say Africa”

by Mosunmola Adeojo

Examining Social Dysfunction and Internet Fraud in Ikenna Okeh’s YAHOO! YAHOO!

by Paul Liam

A Continent of Riddles : A Review of Adéṣọ̀kàn’s “South Side”

by Olayinka Oyegbile

From the Prism of Black Orpheus: Mapping the Growth and Development of Discourse on African Literature

by Denja Abdullahi

Black Orpheus Dispatch: On Re-Using History

by Shalom Kasim

War Without End in Nigerian Literature | A review of The Road to the Country

by Olayinka Oyegbile

NLNG Finalists for Fiction, 2025

by Olongo Africa

A Psychosocial Reading of Saddiq Dzukogi’s Your Crib, My Qibla

by Paul Liam

The New York Black and African Literature Festival aims to be a bridge | Conversation with Efe Paul Azino

by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Àṣàkẹ́’s Vibe as Gimmick

by IfeOluwa Nihinlola

Longlist for the 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature Announced

by Iyanuoluwa Adenle
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  • The Panenka’s Paradox
  • Call for Submissions: A Black Orpheus Companion 
  • Call for Applications: Translation Editor (Lingua Project)
  • Call for Poetry Anthology Contribution
  • Pivotal Sophomores in Nigerian Poetry