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Our inaugural issue is now LIVE! Guest edited by Frances Ogamba (@franceskaydee), the issue spotlights poetry by Daniel Umemezie (@danielumemezie), the 10th National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, alongside new fiction by Munachim Amah, Doyin Ajayi, Nnamdi Anyadu, Robodu Aighu, Ishola Abdulwasiu Ayodele, and Bura-Bari Nwilo, and poetry by St John Kay.

Link in bio to read the full issue! by @blackboyreview

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2 months ago

Submissions are open for our debut issue!

As @chinonso.nzeh says, we urge you to submit the quirky, the silent, the bold, the mundane, the chaotic. This call is open to Nigerian writers in Nigeria and the Diaspora.

For more details, visit our website by clicking the link in our bio.

Goodluck! by @blackboyreview

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6 months ago

Submissions are open. We invite Nigerian fiction writers to submit work for our 2026 issue, with Frances Ogamba as guest editor.

22 April - 7 June. All the details on our website (link in bio) by @blackboyreview

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6 months ago

In this conversation, @nanaekuawriter will reflect on how her writing lives between cultures, on time and on the tension between imagination and authenticity. She’ll also reflect on an important question at the heart of her work namely, how we live with what we inherit, and whether understanding it is ever enough to set us free.

Read with the link in our bio: by @blackboyreview

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19 days ago

The 1st Issue is out soon, and we are so excited about it! We can’t wait to share with everyone! by @blackboyreview

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2 months ago

There is a certain audacity in asking Nigerian literature to hold rocket science. Paul Olisaeloka Anozie’s Black Navel does not merely ask; it urges, setting its speculative machinery down in Enugu, among bungalows and ordinary streets, as if to say: complexity has always lived here, you simply weren’t looking.

Read full review on our website (link in bio) by @blackboyreview

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What arrests me, the source of my jitteriness even weeks after turning the final page, is not the elegance of the structure, nor the lushness of the prose, both are extraordinary in any case. It’s simply the weight of what the women in this book are asked to carry and how ordinary that weight is made to seem.

Read the full review of The Edge of Water by @olufunke.grace.bankole on our website/ via link in bio: by @blackboyreview

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Chinonso Nzeh (@chinonso.nzeh) engages Osahon Ize-Iyamu (@osahon4545) —on craft, obligation, childhood, amongst other things. You can read the full conversation with link in our bio. by @blackboyreview

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6 months ago

We have a new review of @jidesalawu ‘s collection out on Black Boy Review. The review was written by Essayist and poet, Ifesinachi Nwadike.

“In a language that is lyrical, fierce, and sharp with lofty passion, Jide Salawu announces his appreciation of the postcolonial precarities of his continent and home country, and how these uncertainties and collective shame follow the citizens about irrespective of how far, how distant they run from home. The ugliness of the country is a code of shame emblazoned on the forehead of anyone who lays claim to it, such that even in faraway Canada, Salawu’s voice is sonorous with songs that detail the impossibility of delinking the migrant self from that ugliness, that shame.“ by @blackboyreview

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Frances Ogamba (@franceskaydee) joins Black Boy Review as Guest Editor for 2026. We open our first call for Nigerian fiction writers at home in Nigeria and in the diaspora.
Submissions open 22 April - 7 June. Link in bio to read all details. by @blackboyreview

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We sat down with the brilliant and immensely promising young writer, @olayinka_yaqub, author of the riveting novel “The Crimson Vigilante,” for an intimate and far-reaching conversation.

In this interview, he takes us through his childhood, the stories and experiences that shaped his imagination, the discipline and doubts behind his writing process, and the long, winding journey that led to the birth of his book. We talk about craft, persistence, and what it means to tell a story that insists on being told.

If you’re curious about how a writer is made, what it takes to stay committed to a story, and the heart behind The Crimson Vigilante, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

👉 Go to the link in our bio to read the full interview. by @blackboyreview

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9 months ago

What are you reading? by @blackboyreview

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