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A. Igoni Barrett

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Author of the short story collection Love is Power, or Something Like That, the novel Blackass, & the forthcoming novel Whyteface.

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Call for Interviews & Reviews Visit the post for more.

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Editorโ€™s Choice: 20 Most Anticipated Books ofย 2026 Last year, weย publishedย a list of books we were excited to read and absolutely enjoyed. It featured Abdulrazak Gurnahโ€™s Theft, Tochi Ezeโ€™s This Kind of Trouble, Laila Lalamiโ€™s Theโ€ฆ

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Lit Hubโ€™s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 After the year weโ€™ve had, thereโ€™s no predicting anything about the year thatโ€™s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,โ€ฆ

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Davidoโ€™s jacket Davidoโ€™s appearance at 'Amapianoโ€™s biggest concert' turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism.

Davidoโ€™s appearance at 'Amapianoโ€™s biggest concert' turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism. africasacountry.com/2025/11/davi...

27.11.2025 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Whyteface | Graywolf Press Four years ago, a young man named Furo Wariboko woke up one morning in Lagos to find that he had transformed into a white man. Except for his ass. Now well established with a good job, going by Frank ...

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The Nigerian Heart of Joop Berkhout Joop Berkhout, an icon of Nigeriaโ€™s publishing industry for almost six decades, died in February 2025 in Ibadan. He nurtured generations of writers and built Spectrum Books into a publishing powerhous...

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โ€˜A sense of self and self-worthโ€™: Deborah Willis on the importance of Black photography The artist and curator of photography talks about her relationship to the work of Black pioneers of photography and the influence of her 2000 book

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Be careless with your wishes: A Igoni Barrett on the writing life in Nigeria Nigerian author A Igoni Barrett recounts how a personal rebellion led him to writing โ€“ and to confronting his worse bully: his own country

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19.08.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Summer in the city: A Igoni Barrett on a rainy bus ride in Lagos The writer on a stressful commute in Nigeriaโ€™s largest city on a day of downpours in 2007

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19.08.2025 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet of โ€˜Percussive Prosody,โ€™ Dies at 61

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Chinyere Evelyn Uku with Thomas Sayers Ellis An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis The cover image of Thomas Sayers Ellisโ€™s Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poemsย features Ellisโ€™s own black-and-white photograph of Chinyโ€ฆ

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5 Books That Explain Why Lagos Drives People Crazy In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of books to read to understand why Lagos drives people crazy.

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The Un-Lonely Voice of A. Igoni Barrett Nigerian writer, A. Igoni Barrett, points us towards an alternative vision for art. In his stories, there is an affinity for villainous arcs, embedded within colourful, everyday life.

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