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📚 Anthills of the Savannah 🖋 by Chinua Achebe ⭐️ 3.9/5 📅 Published: 1987 In the fictional West African nation of Kangan, three childhood friends—a military dictator, a newspaper editor, and a government minister—find their bonds severed by the corrupting nature of power. As the regime descends into paranoia and violence, the story explores the brutal realities of post-colonial leadership and the vital role of witnesses in preserving the truth. 🔖 #Nigeria #PoliticalFiction #LiteraryFiction #AfroLit PS: Support the author and buy this book!

📍CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ONE SIN MAGAZINE Seeking bold, razor-sharp creative work that explores human transgression, moral gray areas, and single defining choices. We want work that refuses easy answers and leans into vulnerability, desire, and complexity with a distinct, compelling voice. 🔸Deadline: Rolling / Ongoing 🔸Categories↘️ Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Fiction, and Personal Essays TO ENTER↘️ https://onesinmag.substack.com/p/submit

🌟CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ORIIRE FOLKLORE PRIZE Inviting new writing that documents, examines, and celebrates African folktale traditions, history, values, humor, and memory. Share your story, tradition, belief, myth, legend, or cultural practice to be featured in the 2026 Oriire Journal and read worldwide. 🔸Deadline↘️ September 1, 2026 🔸Categories↘️ Nonfiction & Folklore Writing (Essays, Stories, Documentation) 💰 Prize: ₦425,000 Total Prize Pool + Publication TO ENTER↘️ https://oriire.com/prize ✍🏽ArtHut — https://wa.link/bdo6md/

📚 Between Friends & Lovers 🖋 by Shirlene Obuobi 🇬🇭 ⭐️ 4.1/5 📅 Published: August 2024 When a strict internal medicine resident accidentally crosses the line with her long-time best friend, the sudden shift from platonic to passionate threatens to destroy the one relationship she can't live without. She must decide if risking their bond is worth a shot at forever. 🔖 #Ghana #Romance #ContemporaryRomance #WomensFiction #AfroLit

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📚 Leave Your Mess at Home 🖋 by Tolani Akinola ⭐️ 4.2/5 📅 Published: April 2026 Sola Longe just blew up her life as a high-flying influencer. Broke and humiliated, she crawls back to Chicago after a decade away, only to find her siblings harboring their own chaotic secrets. From hidden sexualities to surprise pregnancies, the Longe kids are completely sabotaging their parents' pristine Nigerian-American dream. When they all collide at Thanksgiving dinner, decades of buried trauma explode. Forget leaving the mess at home—it's time for a reckoning. 🔖 #Nigeria #LiteraryFiction #ContemporaryFiction #FamilyDrama #AfroLit

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Butterfly by Chinua Achebe Speed is violence Power is violence Weight is violence The butterfly seeks safety in lightness In weightless, undulating flight But at a crossroads where mottled light From trees falls on a brash new highway Our convergent territories meet I come power-packed enough for two And the gentle butterfly offers Itself in bright yellow sacrifice Upon my hard silicon shield.

📚 The Tiny Things Are Heavier 🖋 by Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo ⭐️ 3.8/5 📅 Published: June 2025 Sommy leaves Lagos for graduate school in Iowa just two weeks after her brother Mezie's suicide attempt, carrying guilt and homesickness into a new life abroad. She's drawn into a tangled dynamic between her Nigerian roommate Bayo and Bryan, a biracial American searching for the Nigerian father he never knew. When a summer trip to Lagos ends in tragedy, Sommy must confront what she owes to family, love, and herself. 🔖 #Nigeria #LiteraryFiction #ComingOfAge #Diaspora #AfroLit

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*Dearest gentle reader,* Eden’s doors open again — make haste to offer your fruits before summer’s end. Bring forth your best. Remember: all Eden’s fruits must be consumed in one bite — one scene only. Those we deem worthy will be saved, for Winter is coming. *N.B.* Please attach a reachable number and a short bio — we’d love to know who you are 😁. Send your work as Word or PDF. Emails without attachments tend to get lost in the garden. *P.S.* The doors close on 17th July, 2026. We look forward to seeing you in the garden😌...