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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Some writers arrive loudly, announcing themselves through bestseller lists and literary festivals. Others build their worlds quiet…
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Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner, novelist and creative writing tutor whose debut Bad Love won the 2021 Betty Trask Award and was…
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Nigerian poetry from the last ten years has mostly has mostly treated religion as material to be examined. Romeo Oriogun uses the …
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Thirty poems. On page eleven, Marcus Aurelius agrees to be interviewed. An epigraph is provided by Ryan Holiday, and another by Wi…
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Since our inception in 2022, The Moveee has been dedicated to culture journalism, occasionally publishing compelling fiction, nonf…
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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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Lola Shoneyin’s 2010 novel has already lived several lives. It became a stage play that earned a five-star review from The Guardia…
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The Witsprouts Storytelling Prize is now open for nominations for its second edition, with The Witsprouts Project inviting a much …
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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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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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Temitayo Adekola writes about the experiences African society would rather look away from. His novelette Trauma, first written in …
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Every phone call was a small trial. His aunt heard a woman. The call centre agent refused to believe him. His own mother couldn’t …
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Four boys on their way to school in the Gusii highlands stumble upon a dead hyena beneath a felled tree. What follows — a butcher’…
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Coach Oliver Berdeen Johnson — the Father of Nigerian Basketball — has spent over 50 years building a legacy on and off the court.…
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Nonye Jennifer Amaechi on writing as survival, her debut novel Black Ink White Paper, and why love in her fiction is never simple.…
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In modern Nigerian culture, the “Japa” story is typically framed as a binary: success or tragedy. Salmah Salam Oiza’s debut collec…
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A few meters on the main road that runs from the district head’s palace to the historic sales point in Bagwai lie two of the…
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The woman as a heroine in the victimisation of social conditioning is a fashionable portrait of the protagonist in contemporary ro…
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The latest edition of The Platform welcomed poet and author Salmah Salam Oiza for a deeply personal discussion that moved seamless…
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Deborah Johnson, better known by her stage name TheGlobalPoet, has emerged as the champion of De9jaSpirit Talent Hunt (DTH) Season…
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In an age where the relentless pace of adult life threatens to consume personal well-being, Lynda Ndubuaku, lifestyle enthusiast a…
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Kano, Nigeria: It’s Friday, September 12, 2025; the sun had just risen with a humming smile, dust spilling around. I marched down …
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In this edition of The Lane, novelist Amaka Azie opens a window into the tender and tumultuous world of The Girl in the Picture, a…
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One of the most effective ways to preserve a culturally diverse and historically rich country like Nigeria is through documenting …
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The Witsprouts Project has announced Rachel Ajisafe as the grand winner of the inaugural Witsprouts Storytelling Prize for 2025. A…
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The 10th edition of The Platform welcomed acclaimed speculative fiction writer Erhu Kome, an Urhobo author renowned for her dynami…
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The art of poetry is built on the principle of compression, a demand to say the most with the least. To write poetry is to…
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Across many African traditions, the mind is not the sovereign it imagines itself to be. The Yoruba show the delineation of this in…
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Herein, Timileyin Okunlola discusses her poem, “Straits“ Your poem “Straits…” powerfully describes a sudden and life-changing loss…
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In his new debut poetry collection, Conversations With Midnight, Nigerian poet Ochoche Agada delivers a collection of 80 poems tha…
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Some novels arrive like whispers; others break into your consciousness and refuse to leave. Chukwuemeka Famous’ We Will Live Again…
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In this edition of The Lane, Moveee welcomes debut crime novelist Derek Somto Nwokoye, tracing the literary and cinematic journey …
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Every human wanders through different phases in life. Sometimes we drift towards something; other times, something drifts towards …
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Welcome to Owuro Every small town in Nigeria has secrets. Owuro, the fictional Ondo State municipality at the centre of Magdalene …
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Paperworth Books Limited announces a book presentation and reading for the debut novel, In the Name of Murder, by author Derek Som…
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I once posited elaborately on the position of Skip Gates—I believe—regarding critical canons and the particularity of looking at w…
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Dream Count is not the sweeping saga of Adichie’s acclaimed Americanah or the generational epic of Half of a Yellow Sun. Instead, …
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Blooming Under Bradford Skies is a masterful assemblage of rich works by Nigerian and British writers who have made Bradford their…
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In his striking debut collection, I Cry at the Feet of My Other Body and Other Stories, Mustapha Enesi turns his sharp eye to the…
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The conversation surrounding contemporary African literature has long been shadowed by the “colonisation of language,” a concern p…
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In an era where the mainstream trends often overshadow local narratives, there is a new voice championing the retention of the Yor…
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Witsprouts has officially announced the shortlist for its 2025 Witsprouts Storytelling Prize, a literary initiative designed to re…
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Nana Sule’s debut novel, Not So Terrible People, is a collection of 11 speculative and mysterious tales, a bold mix of ghosts, ang…
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In this debut collection, Zaynab Ilyasu Bobi, with profound linguistic dexterity, navigates the complexities of grief, displacemen…
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Celebrated writer and journalist Sam Omatseye is back in the spotlight — not just for his sharp pen but for his feet-on-the-ground…
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The literary world pauses to mourn the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a Kenyan intellectual and dissident whose profound impact on …
Read →The fifth edition of The Platform features Aishat Adesanya discussing her short story collection, Funerals and Firecrackers, publi…
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