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At 21, Nigerian Author Doreen Otaru Gives the Uncertainty of Growing Up a Voice in Debut Novel Seasons of Blooming

Blending contemporary coming-of-age fiction with subtle magical realism, the University of Texas at Austin student examines dislocation, the quiet grief of friendship breakups, and...

Bribes, bimbos, and babalawos: An undiplomatic memoir, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Lilian’s story is a three-decade long reel of the kind of interminable coincidence that is not unusual in Nigerian public life. In 1983, the civilian administration of President Sh...

Tares Oburumu: The Poet in Conversation with History

Now, with Flora's Love Colony, he has undertaken something considerably more expansive: an attempt to poetically trace Nigeria's journey from its pre-colonial past through slavery...

“The Bako of Zereshé”: Building a world beyond the ordinary

Dexter Loko has crafted an Afro-inspired work that is as intellectually engaging as it is entertaining, inviting readers to reflect on themes of identity, courage, and the burdens...

Lola Omotayo Trends After LIOGE Africa Identifies Her As Managing Director Of Nosco Oil And Gas

Wife of Nigerian singer Peter Okoye, popularly known as Mr P, Lola Omotayo-Okoye has reacted after her professional position became a topic of discussion online. The attention foll...

Excerpt: “A Less Than Ideal Situation” from Tope Owolabi’s There Is Goodness Waiting at Home

Sunmibare was in the Sainsbury’s Local on Acton High Road when she got an inclination that all was not well with her husband, Ibayomi. Call it a spiritual connection, or ancestral...

8 Nigerian Authors Whose Books Have Won Critical Acclaim

  From globally celebrated novelists to emerging voices gaining international recognition, these female authors have taken Nigerian stories beyond the country’s borders and onto so...

British-Nigerian Writer Abimbola Omisore Wins Simon & Schuster UK’s New Chapter Award

Simon & Schuster UK has named Abimbola Omisore the winner of New Chapter, its award for new writers, securing the Peckham-born British-Nigerian author a two-book publishing dea...

Shelf Life: Elizabeth Acevedo

The author of Anger Is Only a Shadow takes ELLE’s literary survey.

Sefi Atta’s The Gèlè Gang, a Witty Novel About Matchmaking Nigerian American Mothers in Atlanta, Is Coming February 2027

Sefi Atta is back, and this time she’s bringing the aunties. The Soyinka Prize-winning author has announced The Gèlè Gang, a new novel arriving in February 2027, published by Inter...

The Women Who Buried Hope | Dammy Ojikutu | Fiction

  I held onto the collar of his shirt and bit wherever my teeth could find flesh — his neck, his jaw, the soft skin beneath his ear. My nails dug into him until I felt skin give wa...

TBLNG Press Acquires West African Rights to Titilope Sonuga’s This Is How We Disappear

TBLNG Press has announced the acquisition of West African rights to This Is How We Disappear, the poetry collection by Titilope Sonuga. A cover reveal and release date are promised...

Nigerian novelist Chika Unigwe shares lesson she learnt after placing top three in a national writing contest

Chika Unigwe, a Nigerian author, has shared the lesson she learnt when she placed top three on a national writing

British-Nigerian Screenwriter Thara Popoola Wins the ВЈ1,000 Modern Stories: It Must Be Love 2026 Prize

Screenwriter Thara Popoola has won Modern Stories: It Must Be Love 2026 for her novel-in-progress Right Person, Wrong Timeline, Curtis Brown Creative announced, with J. D. Malle’s...

Nigerian-born Lola Ogunbote joins Chelsea Women as head of football operations

Ogaga Ifowodo Wins the 2026 $100,000 NLNG Prize for Literature

Nigerian poet and lawyer Ogaga Ifowodo has won the 2026 Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), for his poetry collection, Why Does God Need a Gun? I...

Ogaga Ifowodo wins $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

The poet’s winning collection examines religious and political violence in Nigeria through the imagined voice of a victim. The post Ogaga Ifowodo wins $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Li...

Can You Really Leave Your Mess At Home? A Conversation With Tolani Akinola

Nigerian literature isn’t new to dysfunctional families, and perhaps this is because family is such a prized institution in Africa. In Nigeria especially, it is often the source of...

Oyinkan Braithwaite Joins Judging Panel for the Women’s Prize Trust’s Discoveries 2027

The Women’s Prize Trust has opened submissions for the seventh edition of Discoveries, its flagship writer development programme supporting unagented, unpublished women novelists,...

Noisy Streetss Publishing Announces Its Inaugural Longform Fiction List

Noisy Streetss Publishing, the Nigerian independent press known for centering the authentic stories of young Africans, is stepping into longform fiction. The publisher has unveiled...

Bola Shagaya at 67: A Grande Dame of Glamour, Power and Enterprise 

There are women whose presence announces itself long before they enter a room. Then there are women like Bola Shagaya, whose arrival seems to alter the temperature of the room

Ooreoluwa O. Agbede Wins the ₦2,000,000 Quramo Writers’ Prize 2026

Lagos-based lawyer and writer Ooreoluwa O. Agbede has won the 2026 Quramo Writers’ Prize for his unpublished manuscript, Four Months. The announcement was made on Friday, October 2...

Aaliyah | Halima Shaibu | Fiction

  Fauziya “Daddy said Aaliyah is in heaven.” My breath catches, and the knife I’m holding clangs onto the chopping board. I stare at Salim struggling with his tiny puzzle in his co...

“People are people anywhere they are” Leye Adenle on Writing Crime Thrillers That Feel Nigerian 

Plot twists, high stakes, suspicious deaths and the thrill of uncovering a crime are what readers come to crime thrillers for. But when we think about the genre, America and Britai...