Ada Nnadi

Oct 14, 2024 | opencountrymag.com | Ada Nnadi

The last interview that Open Country Mag founder Otosirieze did was in 2021, with the South African news site News24. But last week, he returned to sharing his thoughts in public when he spoke to The Republic associate editor Peace Onafuye, for the journal’s “First Draft” series. The writer, journalist, editor, and curator shared his reading habits and recommended some books, but also took on recent literary issues in the African and global scenes.

Oct 4, 2024 | opencountrymag.com | Ada Nnadi

For fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, two questions have been paramount: “Where is Kainene?” and “When is the next book?” The culture icon’s second novel Half of a Yellow Sun and its ultimate character mystery arrived in 2006, three years after her debut, Purple Hibiscus, and seven years before her third, Americanah, in 2013. And now, after a space of 12 years, her fourth novel Dream Count will be released in 2025.