Sunny AYEWANU

Sunny AYEWANU
  • Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Nigeria
English

Sunny AYEWANU is the author of Flowering Bullets, which was a runner-up for the 1998 Association of Nigeria Author prize for poetry. He has contributed poems to three anthologies—Trembling Leaves (1999), Cramped Rooms & Open Spaces (1999), and 25 New Nigerian Poets (2000)—and is the featured author of Nejma 4: The Writings of Sunny Ayewanu. Mr. Ayewanu is the president of the Association of West African Young Writers, one of Nigeria’s oldest literary associations. He is participating courtesy of the U.S. Department of State.

Happening Now

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

  • “I went to [Ayodhya] to think about what it means to be an Indian and a Hindu... ”  A new essay by critic and novelist Chandrahas Choudhury.

  • In the January 2024 iteration of the French/English non-fiction site Frictions, T J Benson writes about “Riding Afrobeats Across the World.” Also new, a next installment in the bilingual series featuring work by students from Paris VIII’s Creative Writing program and the University of Iowa’s NFW program.

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