Never Write Alone: Craft, Community and The Abebi AfroNonfiction InstituteIt is the last day of the residency and all of us — our amazing winners and notable entries — are seated in a lush garden eating bread and…Oct 181Oct 181
Things like spirit. Things like soul. Things like trees.Every time I go back home to Lagos, I am confronted by the unrelenting force that is change. I see it in the way my father’s steps are a…May 1815May 1815
M25: Victorious Even Before BattleThere is a rocking chair in my house — it’s made of the most beautiful deep green floral pattern woven with pink and purple flowers, its…Mar 289Mar 289
Love and Other Drugs and All The Endless Possibilities.We all feel it, that longing deep within our hearts to be seen, to be held, to be understood. We yearn for our hands to be held, to share…Feb 149Feb 149
The Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction.The Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction exists to shine a much-needed light on nonfiction from Africa, in the form of personal narratives…Oct 1, 20233Oct 1, 20233
An Unusual Grief and The Power of Seeing.I am high up in the sky, in pitch darkness somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean when I finish reading Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief. My…Jul 31, 202315Jul 31, 202315
Revisitations (2022)I found it incredibly difficult to write about this year. Which should not surprise me because this has been a year of difficult things, of…Dec 31, 202210Dec 31, 202210
