The 14th Aké Arts and Book Festival runs from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 November at Silkwood Hotel (formerly Bon Hotel), 261 Sobo Arobiodu Street, Ikeja GRA.

The $500 award goes to a story about the legacies of trauma and silence. Élékéré Press also announces its first title, a podcast, and the prize’s return in 2027.

Élékéré Press has shortlisted seven writers for its inaugural short story prize. The winner will be announced on November 2, 2026.

Book Buzz Foundation, the organisation behind Ake Arts & Book Festival, the Lagos International Festival of Illustrations and the Kaduna Book & Arts Festival, has launched the Abuja Festival...

The new $500 prize invites unpublished short stories on the theme of “Inheritance” — submissions close August 31, 2026.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

The publishing platform expands its cultural mandate with a dedicated advisory division offering strategic counseling to writers, independent publishers, and literary institutions navigating a transf...

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.