We started after a Facebook chat and then a telephone conversation. It was simple, we said we wanted to shine light on all the young, exciting, and often overlooked writers across Nigeria. Then we started with that clumsy wordpress blog a long long time ago, just Chimee in Owere and Ucheoma in Ụmụahịa. All these while, we have taken long breaks and quick naps and short pauses and dispersions, disappeared, appeared, reappeared, but we have continued to observe and read and share.
In brisk motions and slow motions, we have been reading, reviewing, and chatting about stories, poems, their writers, all that deserve way more attention, both the home ones and the abroad ones.
We have a strong thing for stories, we are all about sharing the wild, beautiful, and sometimes unexpected worlds writers create. Think of us as a space where readers can discover new voices, fall in love with stories, sleep with the stories, talk to their friends about those stories while waiting at the bus park.
We also care about community, building it, growing it, and keeping a record of the voices shaping it and keeping it alive. Along the way, we’ve been featured on OKAYAFRICA and CULTURE CUSTODIAN, in a list of book spaces putting African literature on the map.
If you have any questions, thoughts or vibes, suggestions, collaboration ideas, please reach out to us via email.
