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Building the Routes That Give African Arts Exchange More Than One Centre

For its sixth edition, the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival (HIBAF) is building a circuit between Kaduna, Abuja and Lond…

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Rapid Fire with Qudrah Adam, the Author Rewriting Muslim Woman

Some writers arrive loudly, announcing themselves through bestseller lists and literary festivals. Others build their worlds quiet…

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The Berlin-Based Nigerian Developer Behind the Danfo Game Everyone Is Playing

He posted a link on 26 September. Two days later seven thousand people had driven a danfo through Lagos. It is now past ninety tho…

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The Writer Behind the Books You Think Someone Else Wrote

Tobiloba Afolayan is a ghostwriter with three books of his own and nine years of writing behind other people’s names. In this edit…

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He Wrote Trauma in 2021. The World Needed It More in 2026.

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The Romance Novelist Who Believes Love Is Never Just Romantic

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There is something quietly unsettling about the stories we never tell. They remain with us, growing louder in memory than they eve…

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Aisha A. Bolaji Tends to the Wounds of Girls in Full Bloom in Flowers at the City of Dreams

When you pick up Aishat A. Bolaji’s Flowers at the City of Dreams, you should read the dedication first. “Dedicated to the courage…

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Immigration Becomes an Unmaking in Salmah Salam Oiza’s Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year

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