My full-length play, "The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe", has been longlisted for the prestigious literary prize, The Nigeria Prize for Literature, 2023.
I'm eternally grateful to God almighty, chukwuokike, the maker of kings.
My short story, ‘American Actors’, is out in @GuernicaMag! I am grateful to Guernica magazine for immortalizing it!
My mother would always remind me, in her ever comforting voice, “One day, one must enter!”
I can’t define my joy!
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At Mzilikazi Library, NoViolet addressing the audience:
“You set your story in a little town in Bulawayo. That is enough. As long as you are writing your characters in a compelling way, as long as you are writing your place in a compelling way, people will always connect.”
Afrocritik has released its 50 remarkable stories of the year. Some really great fiction here. In particular, I remember reading @abuchi_modilim’s “Voicemail” when it was published. What a story. Glad to see it here.
Who are these folks stripping the soil all along the Lagos-Ibadan highway? Who's permitting this?
Why are we buying land, cutting all the trees and destroying the forest? Why do we hate our environment/nature so much? What is wrong with us?
But it's not too late to change...
"Often, Chuka would stop on the bridge under the railway track to admire the journey of the water; it made him think less and calm down. Today, he didn’t stop to watch the water."
Read "Voicemail" by Abuchi Modilim, new this week in Joyland Magazine.
https://t.co/HgxUeQGXY0
"Chuka was trying to heal; he wasn’t waiting for fate or hope to liberate his longings."
Read "Voicemail" by @abuchi_modilim, new this week in Joyland Magazine.
https://t.co/HgxUeQGq8s
My short story, VOICEMAIL, was published today in @JoylandPub. This is my first publication in 3 years. I'm speechless; I am happy for what this short story has done so far!
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In @abuchi_modilim's "Voicemail," Chuka, a lonely playwriting student living in Arkansas, tries to explain America to a friend back home in Nigeria. New today in Joyland Magazine.
https://t.co/HgxUeQGXY0
Finally, after a long wait, our list of 60 Notable Books of 2023 is out!
Click on the link below to see which books made our list. Tell us what you think in the comment section
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“Purple Hibiscus for me is about nostalgia - it’s a sort of romanticised remembering. I wrote it in my early twenties, when I was in college in Connecticut. I was very homesick, it was the middle of winter, and I just started writing because I wanted to remember home…” — CNA