Announcing our landmark 10th cover: August 2024: . Francis Cardinal Arinze 🙏🏾. At 91, the Catholic prelate is the most accomplished living African and Black religious minister, our oldest cover star, and our first outside literature and film. 👇🏾.

"African writers are just not credited enough as innovators”: Otosirieze Speaks to The Republic.

The Epic, Transformative Comeback of @chidimokeme.

TBLNG Press to Publish Bestseller Damilare Kuku’s Third Book.

RT @OpenCountryMag: "In 2021, he released his debut feature film, In Ibadan. It was made with no budget; only a camera, some lighting, frie….

"In 2021, he released his debut feature film, In Ibadan. It was made with no budget; only a camera, some lighting, friends, and desire. And it shows: the film breathes like something made by people who had nothing to lose but their vision; who, ".

"She returned to Lagos in 2023, to study Film Directing and Cinematography at the Ebonylife Creative Academy, where she learned from the filmmaker Daniel Oriahi. Her time there transformed her perspective, and, later that year, she channeled everything. ".

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Taiwo Egunjobi’s Cinema of the Trapped. In grave dramas of styled minimalism, the Ibadan-born director constructs harsh worlds of dangerous dreams, in which characters are caught up in greed and violence.

In his first attempt at the epic form, Ngugi wa Thiong’o tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, .

"Afro-contemporary symbolism is my way of merging traditional African storytelling with modern experimental techniques. It is about using simple, unconventional, or abstract elements to convey deeper narratives — like a single object in a frame.

His Style Is Symbolist: “Afro Contemporary Symbolism. Grief led @uwanaanthony to make his short film Everything Must End. His style is “a movement and a cause for change in our approach to pursuing knowledge.”.

Ngũgĩ’s literary career, like that of many African writers of his generation, was nurtured by a small but powerful network of institutions and individuals committed to the development of African literature in the years after independence.

Keletso Mopai Owns Her Story and Her Voice. The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.

The Women Weavers of Akwete. "After she turned seven, and her arms were long enough, Grace Anelechi Okere began to weave. She had spent all the years of her life close to her grandmother’s upright loom,".

Aisha Ahmad, Princess of Polo. "Between Aisha Ahmad and horses, it was love at first sight. At the Kaduna Polo Club, where she had gone with friends to watch a tournament for the first time, she was fascinated by the animals.".

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