I was 21 years old and preparing for NYSC when Buhari became president. I will be 29 when he leaves next year. I am just realizing that I've spent my 20s in bondage. Many of us became full adults under this man and all we have are tears of frustration, destruction, and death.

If you think you’re doing important work, stop waiting for someone to tell you that and validate you. Your judgement got you doing that. Trust it. It’s hard but trust it.

New profile from @OpenCountryMag: In an era of unearned hype, the novelistic short stories of God’s Children Are Little Broken Things established Arinze Ifeakandu as a major talent.

RT @adedayo_agarau: Until this feature, I didn’t think The Years of Blood was a coming-of-age body of work, but yes, it is. If you grew up…

RT @michaelaromol: 3 years ago, 3 Nigerian filmmakers decided to stage their own film festival. For left-field talents like themselves. T…

RT @OpenCountryMag: When I asked how they have kept the festival running despite the odds, they pinned it to devotion. “Love is how we keep…

RT @obyezeks: So now that more facts are publicly available, @DeleFarotimi was actually abducted from his office in Lagos by officers of th…

RT @fisayosoyombo: Good morning, @customsNG. Just before my detention by the Army, I was on the verge of alerting you to plans to smuggle…

A trio of young filmmakers banded together as the Surreal16 Collective, to resist Nollywood clichés. At their @S16Filmfestival, Michael Omonua, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, and Abba T. Makama curate a haven for unorthodox filmmakers. Good job, @michaelaromol.

.@abidare_author, the @nytimes bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice and And So I Roar, talks her writing process with @OpenCountryMag.

RT @Otosirieze: In an era of Americanization, being an African editor requires discernment. There’s a wall that you need to hold, keep the…

@CalebOkereke @MinorityAfrica You guys are doing It. Well done!

@the_amazingama Happy birthday, @the_amazingama ! Wishing you life, health, and fulfillment.

In an era of Americanization, being an African editor requires discernment. There’s a wall that you need to hold, keep the writer away from. American writers get to swim in their sea. But if you’re African, you’re smartest navigating it on a boat made of your ancestors’ masks.

RT @ZainabBobi: If you haven't read @UmarSidi11's works before, this is a good time to buy The Incredible Dreams of Garba Dakascus, The Poe…

Nigerian literature has a small but storied history of military men, including Christopher Okigbo and Mamman Vatsa. @UmarSidi11, a Navy pilot and the top selling poet in the country, arrives. This @OpenCountryMag Profile by @ChukwuderaEdozi is crucial.

RT @olayinka_yaqub: always in awe of @UmarSidi11's mind. beautiful profile.

An essay is a system of logic. Without that organisation, without that connection of logic, idea building upon idea, there is no essay. It’s about flow: putting them in a sequence that drives home your point. An essay can be a story of ideas, how they work in specific cases.

There are industries whose success or failure don’t represent progress or retrogression in the wider society. Film is one. But literature and journalism are different. Literature is a reflection of the state of our education. Journalism is a reflection of our morality. Sad.

There’s an overdue one on Arinze Ifeakandu. There’s the one that just came out today, on @UmarSidi11 Abubakar Sidi, one of the few writers in Nigerian history who are also military men.