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Pleased to share my new essay, where, for @aLongHouse’s Homelessness issue, I write about a photography series by Damilare Adeyemi. Do read.
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Calling all my creative non-fiction writers! Mega Story Magazine is open for submissions. Hurry and polish that essay and send it to them. They pay!
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RT @TroyOnyango: only five places left in my 2027 fiction workshop
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In 2008, as medical students at OAU, Ile-Ife, Emmanuel Iduma and I kept talking about new Nigerian and African writing. By February 2009 that became the first issue of Saraba, with early work from Ayobami Adebayo, Elnathan John, Chika Unigwe and more. In 2019 I co-founded The Lagos Review, an online culture magazine, where I was music editor until 2023. In 2021 came Yaba Left Review (@YLReview), a paying literary journal for poetry and essays. I serve as its publisher, and it's now home to our Agbaman interview series. Building platforms for African writers has been as much a part of my life as writing itself.
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Saraba Magazine (@Sarabamag) is pleased to announce that Shammah Godoz (@shaanigami) has been awarded the inaugural Saraba Editorial Fellowship for 2026/2027.
This is a one-year fellowship offered to a promising contributor who has been published in our magazine and has attended one of the Saraba Manuscript Project editorial training sessions. As an editorial fellow, Shammah will be involved in the day-to-day operations of the magazine, which include reading submissions and selecting work for the magazine, copyediting and proofreading, as well as contributing to the initiatives we shall be introducing during the fellowship year. The fellow will also receive editorial training, mentorship and the support they need to build their editorial skills, one of which would include free access to all our editorial workshops run under the Saraba Manuscript Project.
Shammah Godoz: “It is a dream come true. To receive editorial training from an institution as revered as the Saraba Magazine and that a literary magazine on the continent is what gives this instruction to me. It is also a giant step for everyone involved. I hope to gain on all the skills, the know-hows behind running a literary magazine, the deeper level experience behind the literature on the continent, but most importantly, I hope to learn more ways in which our literary infrastructure can be built and strengthened on the African continent.”
This fellowship forms part of Saraba’s renewed publishing programme following the magazine’s revival, with new work, editorial projects and opportunities for writers and editors to be announced in the coming months.
About Shammah Godoz
Shammah Godoz is a creative writer and fiction editor. He currently runs The Leopard House Collective, The Book Replay, serves as the producer and host for COAL’s Between The Lines Series, as well as the Khard and Kulture podcast, which focuses on exploring literature from the African continent and beyond. Shammah is also a Lolwe Fiction Workshop alumnus. He has worked across marketing, communications, design and film and finds a lot of peace in cooking and putting brush to canvas.
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Shammah Godoz Awarded the Saraba Editorial Fellowship
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RT @TroyOnyango: the 2027 lolwe fiction programme
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It was such a fun class! I had the most delightful group. One of the most important things we aligned on is that editors are tastemakers!
Thanks to the Saraba team for trusting me & looking forward to the next one ❤️
Our first editorial workshop at @Sarabamag ended yesterday. The reviews so far have been heartwarming. Grateful to @OpeAdedeji_ for her insightful sessions!
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Join @ArinzeIfeakandu for The Craft of the Short Story masterclass exploring character, scenes, setting and the art of telling compelling stories. The online course will be on 14 November 2026 at 2PM GMT. Only 10 places available
Register here: academy.lolwe.org/class/the-…
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not all opinions are meant for twitter. character limits mean depth is lost and meaning is misconstrued.
in the spirit of doing culture criticism the proper way, i have a new essay out on @OlongoAfrica, titled On Mechanics and the Mechanisms of Power.
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I feel blessed to be part of this lovely cohort of the Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence programme.
Thank you @theafricainst, @GSUSharjah & the jury. To God be all the glory.
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RT @TroyOnyango: if you are interested in the workshop and have any questions please send me an email to troy@lolwe.org
also check out the…
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RT @TroyOnyango: are you working on a novel or short story collection in 2027? ready to take your fiction writing more seriously?
i’ll be…
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"Living abroad may distance us from certain realities, but it does not distance us from our belonging."
We Are Still Legitimate – In Conversation with Mlezi by Seleho Nahadjenin
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"Afternoons, we would speed down this hill, beating the orange earth underfoot, racing to our mango tree. When we found no fallen fruits, dust-lathered feet and arms clambered and shook the tree."
To the Lips by Llyrio Boateng
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"I do wonders when bent into ablution,
have you seen me snaking through the will of God?"
Duplex for Self by Taofeek Ayeyemi
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"I am floating and okay like that because
there is no floor, no ground.
I have eyes but no body, no sky, no cloud,
no desire to become more..."
God by Taofeek Ayeyemi
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"It’s been three months now since the last time they were in church. Her sudden malaria one Sunday had started it. Then his, the following Sunday. They would then realise these excuses were not so difficult to come about."
Dialogue by Fortune Akande
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"There never used to be this many Zimbabwean men in Sacramento. For years there were only two of us, a doctor at Kaiser and me...Now there are too many people to count."
We Gather by Emmanuel Sigauke
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This October in Saraba, we have published fiction by Emmanuel Sigauke and Fortune Akande, poetry by Taofeek Ayeyemi and Llyrio Boateng, and an interview by Seleho Nahadjenin.
Read here:
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