Ademola Adefolami

On December 29, 2024, OlongoAfrica hosted a highly anticipated holiday screening of Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory at the J.Randle Centre in Onikan, Lagos. The film, which premiered in July 2024 as part of events to mark Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday has had a global tour, screening in London, Mexico, and parts of the […]

A young police officer is standing with a woman I assume to be his mother. She is praying for him loudly, at a major junction on the streets of a Lagos suburb; speaking in tongues unashamedly while passers-by stare, some in admiration, others, not so much. The young force personnel is shy, hiding his face […]

Ademola: Somewhere, Chinua Achebe says, “there is no story that is not true.” While this is a profound assertion, it also speaks, in my opinion, about the stringency of the fiction-nonfiction rules. As someone whose first book, Satans & Shaitans, was a fictionalized account of a deeply researched feature of the current Nigerian society, what do […]