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“Food Is Never Just Food” — Nnamdi Anyadu on Dark Fiction, Storytelling, and the Art of the Twist

Nnamdi Anyadu’s short story collection A Meal Is a Meal was published by Narrative Landscape Press Limited in 2025. The book is...

“We Need More People Like Shina in Nigeria” — Tobiloba Afolayan on Faith, Betrayal, and Writing Nigeria’s Conscience into Fiction

Tobiloba Afolayan’s novel Shina! was published by Paperworth Books in 2025. The book is a contemporary Nigerian retelling of the Samson and...

Ibadan – A Creative Capital: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

ÌBÀDÀN, a city with its own heritage of masquerades, monarchs and literary giants, is undeniably central to Nigeria’s cultural history. It is...

What About A Man’s Life? On Shogo Uthman’s Poetry of African Masculinity—A Review by ’Joba Ojelabi

Archiving Her Hustle: A Review of Moremi Akano’s ‘A Woman’s Studio’ by Servio Gbadamosi

Poetry is a tool that has been used by several people to meet different needs, and in the hands of a skilled...

The Rhythm of Memory and Magic in Michael Olobadola’s ‘Owuro Rising’ by Servio Gbadamosi

Michael Olugbenga Olobadola’s Owuro Rising is a novel that gestures towards poetry, not in the conventional sense of form or metre, but in the...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Stories We Long to Tell

Laipo Magazine, the literary and cultural publication of the Sankofa Initiative for Culture and Development, invites writers, artists, thinkers and culture workers...

Thairsty: A Short Story from In the Middle of All This Fire

Thairsty by Olubunmi Adesuwa Ajiboye is a short story from In the Middle of All This Fire, the Noirledge anthology of fiction...

Three Poems by Ifésinachi Nwàdiké

How We Became Heroes by Ifésinachi Nwàdiké is a brilliant, captivating collection that burns with class fury while also being gentle where...

“Poverty and Democracy Cannot Live in the Same House!” — Niyi Osundare at Truth is Trouble Conversation

The Booksellers Limited and Bookcraft hosted a public conversation with award-winning poet and essayist Niyi Osundare at The Booksellers Ltd, 52 Magazine...

Tobiloba Afolayan Presents Shina! in Ibadan, a Nigerian Retelling of Samson and Delilah

Paperworth Books held a book reading and signing for Shina!, the second novel by Nigerian author Tobiloba Afolayan, at The Booksellers on...

Nnamdi Anyadu Holds A Meal Is a Meal Reading and Signing in Ibadan

Nigerian writer Nnamdi Anyadu launched his short story collection, A Meal Is a Meal, at RovingHeights Bookstore in Bodija, Ibadan, on 29...