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The African Literature Ecosystem Used to Be Unstoppable. What Went Wrong?

Summary by OkayAfrica
When the Nigerian writer Dami Ajayi co-founded Saraba Magazine in 2009 alongside fellow writer Emmanuel Iduma, they were at the doorway of a renaissance in the African literary ecosystem. The internet was just exploding in Nigeria, and ambitious writers were taking advantage of its global connectivity to build mostly online publications and literary townhalls.Writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Binyavanga Wainaina, Tope Folarin, NoViolet Bula…
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OkayAfrica broke the news in on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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