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. 👇🏾 https://t.co/NPdcsoooUg

Set your reminders!!! Join Otosirieze's (@Otosirieze) chat by 7:00pm (WAT) on X spaces today!!!!

It’s today! Join Otosirieze’s (@Otosirieze) chat by 7:00pm (WAT) on X Spaces. Set reminders. Come with questions and/or opinions.

This is happening tomorrow, 7:00pm (WAT). Where would you rather be? Come have a chat with Otosirieze (@Otosirieze) on books, films, music, and politics. There’s a plus: get writing advice and editing tips as well.

Momtaza Mehri’s Fluid Diasporas Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world —

Abi Daré Claims Her Space The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice and And So I Roar on her writing process.

In His Short Films, the Drama Is in the Mundane Guided by his “Igbo awakening,” @DikaOfoma sets his brief features — God’s Wife, A Quiet Monday, and A Japa Tale, among them

After her mother’s death forced her imagination open, she began writing seriously at 13 and submitted work for a competition run by KTV. Later, in tenth grade, she started a magazine with her friends after their school first got computers. At 17, she began writing a story, a

“Little Did We Know”: How uHlanga Press Disrupted South African Poetry Nick Mulgrew started a publishing outfit to bring “dismissed or ignored” voices to print.

Set a reminder now to attend Otosirieze’s (@Otosirieze) chat tomorrow, 7pm (WAT).

Otosirieze (@Otosirieze) is hosting an X space this Saturday (7pm-8pm (WAT)) to talk about literature, books, films, music and politics. Come have a chat with him.

“The rupture of the relationship between Chude Jideonwo (@Chude) and the Goodluck Jonathan administration, a major champion of RED | For Africa’s youth-centric work, has been a subject of speculation. Yet that perceived relationship was never smooth.” https://t.co/dpORiSNCyU

For decades, Nigerians looked to writers for moral authority. As the country deteriorates further, and more writers become “hooker intellectuals,” the short story writer, attorney, and digital publishing pioneer hopes to maintain his courage. https://t.co/oaiy5OXnON

Nick Mulgrew started a publishing outfit to bring “dismissed or ignored” voices to print. Ten years later, it has landed notable prizes, invested in indigenous languages, and grown a dedicated readership. Read more of this feature by Iheoma Uzomba (@IheomaUzomba):

“Between 2003 and 2006 was a brilliant time to be young in Nigeria, such a glorious time. People take it for granted now. We couldn’t when I was growing up. I remember thinking to myself, ‘Oh, my God, I want to celebrate these people.’” #ChudeJideonwo https://t.co/qJuBSkh47m

@OpenCountryMag @Otosirieze This is such a fantastic opportunity to gain insights from someone who has clearly navigated the creative career path with intention. I'm looking forward to hearing about the practical strategies for turning passion into profession and how to sustain that journey long-term. ✨

“Although we are souls and spirits traveling this earth, our bodies are witnesses to everything we experience. Therein lies my dedication to the body as a tool of record keeping and remembrance.” —Mofiyinfoluwa O. (@__mofiyinfoluwa): https://t.co/ddtwakrjef

Have you ever wished you could ask Otosirieze (@Otosirieze) anything—whether about craft, career advice, or the work we do at Open Country Mag? Bring your questions to the X Space he’ll be hosting this Saturday. Check the flier for full details.

“Feminism’s ultimate goal is to make itself redundant, to get to a world where we no longer have to be labeled feminist because the world would be gender-equal. And for that to happen, we need to have as many people onboard as possible.” Read the full story here: