Joop Berkhout, an icon of Nigeria’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...

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

Nigerian author A Igoni Barrett recounts how a personal rebellion led him to writing – and to confronting his worse bully: his own country

The writer on a stressful commute in Nigeria’s largest city on a day of downpours in 2007

An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis The cover image of Thomas Sayers Ellis’s Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems features Ellis’s own black-and-white photograph of Chiny…

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of books to read to understand why Lagos drives people crazy.

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.