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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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A. Igoni Barrett @aibarrett.bsky.social · Jul 24
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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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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026
After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…
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January 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Davido’s appearance at 'Amapiano’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...
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Davido’s appearance at 'Amapiano’s biggest concert' turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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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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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The Nigerian Heart of Joop Berkhout
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...
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September 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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‘A sense of self and self-worth’: 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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September 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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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 – and to confronting his worse bully: his own country
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August 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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 Nigeria’s largest city on a day of downpours in 2007
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August 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet of ‘Percussive Prosody,’ Dies at 61
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August 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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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 Ellis’s Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems features Ellis’s own black-and-white photograph of Chiny…
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July 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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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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July 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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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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July 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM