The Children’s Shelf is Broken
Inside the fight to fix African children’s publishing — where the biggest market in the world has the fewest books that look like its readers.
Inside the fight to fix African children’s publishing — where the biggest market in the world has the fewest books that look like its readers.
In Ikoyi, poetry is trying to be more than a poem — it’s trying to be an economy.
A LightRay! Arts & Creative Feature
In Ogaga Ifowodo’s prize-winning collection, violence in Nigeria gets a voice — and the divine gets interrogated.
On jollof, genocide, and what it means to be a moving antenna.
A Literary Spotlight by LightRay!
LightRay! Book Spotlight
. . . In Celebration of All Lovers of Books!
. . . A repositioning of ANA’s influence on Nigerian literature.
LightRay! Book Spotlight
Ejiro Umukoro’s true-crime inspired novel, which won the 2025 TYB Prize, ended with justice for its protagonist. The same fate was delivered by a Delta State court to the men convicted of murdering A+ student Elozino Oge.
A policy analysis.