The new $500 prize invites unpublished short stories on the theme of “Inheritance” — submissions close August 31, 2026.

If you’re an African or diaspora writer with a story that traditional publishing houses might deem “too strange,” “highly political,” or too “out there,” this is your call.

A new literary collection from Book O’Clock invites essays, short stories, and poetry from Nigerian writers whose lives have straddled origin and the North.

Now in its third edition, the USD20,000 prize celebrates excellence in African and Caribbean publishing.

This situation is more than just a snub at a movie premiere. It reflects the realities of Nollywood at the highest level, where success, ego, loyalty, and strategy constantly clash.

Itohan had travelled to Juk to retrieve Ebuka’s badly mangled body and returned it to his old parents in their village in Imo State.

A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.

In fact, on the morning of my birthday, just after we had broken up, I had spent time in the hotel begging someone else to love me and be with me.

But he walked out the door and said he would go, by foot, if necessary, to Afghanistan, to kill the infidels who were bombing Muslim babies in their cribs.