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Black Orpheus Dispatch: The Creative Economy Paradox

by Shalom Kasim

Download as PDFOn re-modelling history 68-sh, 50-sh years later I When budgets get tight, the first thing that gets cut is the arts. People look at a literary journal or a poetry prize or some experimental performance thing happening in a hall and think, “This is cute, but is it really necessary?” Every time I […]

Sóyínká Off Broadway: Swamps and Syntheses

by Deji Toye

Presenting the Digitized Black Orpheus Journals

by Olongo Africa

OlongoAfrica’s Black Orpheus Fellows Selected

by Olongo Africa

AI Writes. I Bleed

by Damilola Ayeni

Cousin Sister

by Emelda Gwitimah

The Archaeology of Writing: A Conversation with the Mauritanian Writer Ahmed Vall Dine

by Ibrahim Fawzy

Two Poems

by Prosper Ifeanyi

The 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature Kicks Off

by Iyanuoluwa Adenle

Black Orpheus Dispatch: On Re-counting History

by Shalom Kasim

Thinking Erasure in African Literature

by Tolu Daniel

The Early Oeuvre of Romanus Nnagbo Egudu

by Tade Ipadeola

Black Orpheus Dispatch: On Re-visiting History

by Shalom Kasim

Black Orpheus Dispatch: A Conversation | by Shalom Kasim

by Shalom Kasim

Toward The Lossless Translation | Review by Tádé Ìpàdéọlá

by Tade Ipadeola

“Ebrohimie Road” Screens at Randle Centre

by Ademola Adefolami

OlongoAfrica Black Orpheus Fellowship (Application)

by Olongo Africa

The Parlour Wife – A Review

by Molara Wood

Black Orpheus at Art X Lagos

by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún and Olongo Africa

How Much Humour Is Enough

by Damilola Omotoyinbo

Black Orpheus Revisited

by Olongo Africa

We Sing Your Fire Back

by Okechi Okeke

OlongoAfrica returns to Black Orpheus Journal

by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún and Olongo Africa

Ama G(h)ana

by K. Asare-Bediako

A Weird Romance at Filmmaking

by Carl Terver

In the End Are Only New Beginnings

by Nzube Nlebedim
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