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A Conversation with Samuel A. Adeyemi: An Interview

I started writing poetry, intentionally, in 2017. Studying literature in secondary school was mostly the catalyst. I fell in love after reading the poets we were taught

The Evolution and Representation of African Women In Arts

by jonathanoladeji | Africalitra Monthly, Prose, Think Piece

Coauthors: Precious Ozioma Okeke and Olayemi Mary Adeola For decades, African women have been presented as passive humans instead of the independent agents of change and the nation builders that they are. In acts and narratives, women are depersonalized, traumatized,...

Prisms, Itanile Calls African Writers for Her 2022 Publications

by jonathanoladeji | Lit Chatters, Magazine

With every year that passes storytelling for the African Spirit has found inspiration in the many voices of those whose hearts are riddled with scars, freshly beaten, open to change, embracing conflict, and looking for a heartfelt response to who we are becoming....

The River and her Streams, Onyedikachi Shaquille Johnson

by Onyedikachi Shaquille Johnson | Africalitra Monthly, Poetry

The songwriter imaginedstanding amid cellists,before an auditorium of compatriots who have comea long way for laughs& some Afropop as bonus, with the first unit of his poemthat read: I know the Niger& her shore is my favorite place,one I feel most connected...

THE PORTRAIT OF A DEFILED MOON

by Philip Chijioke Abonyi | Africalitra Monthly, Poetry

you become a bomb of rage ready to explode on the shadow that touches the tits of your sister's innocence. what happens to the girl whose households are flowers in necropolis? I wake up every forenoon to an opened old window greeting my breasts or the express...

Re: Tell Me That You Love Me , Seun Lari-Williams

by Seun Lari-Williams | Africalitra Monthly, Contributions, Poetry

Kabiru, I will tell you that I love you when the sun comes out at night. Or when it’s break of dawn but the sun forgets to rise. Come thirtieth February, you shall be my valentine. I will be all yours and I, too, shall call you mine. My waist beads will jingle for you...

Eagle Nest Book Club and Art Movement: Hope for a New Revolution Through Art

by Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera | Non-fiction

On the 18th of July 2021, some students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, named “Eagle Nest Book Club” as a group, gathered somewhere outside the University premises to have their first book club event. The meeting, themed “An African Perspective of Things”, featured...

Who Benefits from Mo Abudu’s Production of Hushpuppi Bloomberg Article?

by jonathanoladeji | Africalitra Monthly, Non-Fiction, Think Piece

According to many reports, Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife and Will Parker have been granted the rights to co-produce one of the Bloomberg’s articles.

Who knew such a time as this would come for writers? The questions of monetization, copyright, and ownership come front and center not just because this is a story that has had a global audience, but the significance of the main player…

Stanley Umezulike, Amazon bestselling author of Tropical African Crime Fiction, Family Drama, and Romance.

by jonathanoladeji | Featured

Some of the impact stories in the African creative space are often those scarcely discovered. Itanile's hope is that as we connect with some of the tiny dots, we would build a nest for those birds who are free-flying. In an ocean of Brownian art forms, African...

Itanile Announces the Suspension of the Collins Elesiro Prize

by Jeff Omenyuru | News, Uncategorized

The Itanile team regrets to announce the suspension of the biannual Collins Elesiro Literary Prize. While we thoroughly enjoyed reading the over 60 entries for this edition, we would not be moving forward with a longlist or shortlist; as such, there would be no...