Nantygreens

21/02/2026

https://nantygreens.com/book-review/only-big-bu**um-matters-tomorrow-damilare-kuku/

“I plan to renovate my bu**um in Lagos, live there for some time, and hopefully meet the love of my life!” The book immediately plunges us into the drama

06/01/2026

It's been a while.
We've been away from the noise, but not from the work. Behind the scenes, we've been curating, editing, and putting together something we're really proud of.

Nantygreens Vol. 1: 3 Poems and Some Stories is here — our first anthology collecting the voices that made this platform what it is. Since 2011, hundreds of writers have trusted us with their work. This volume celebrates them.
Thank you for staying with us, even in the silence.

Thank you for still believing in emerging African voices.
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Nantygreens Vol. 1 is Here! For over a decade, Nantygreens has been publishing emerging writers from Nigeria, and across Africa. This anthology celebrates

04/01/2026

The book is set in different times and political climates of Uganda; precolonial, post colonial, Idi-Amin and the bush wars and the periods after. While Makumbi has stated that the book was not intended to be a political one, the effects of the social and political conditions of the times lived in by Kintu’s descendants and other characters and how it shapes a lot of their experiences and disposition cannot be ignored and it is a significant backdrop to the story as it unfolds.

Book: KINTU Author: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Kintu is the debut novel of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and it tells the complicated and yet so enthralling

03/01/2026

Book: BLACKASS Author: Igoni Barrett Furo Wariboko, the protagonist in Igoni Barrett’s Kafkaesque dark satirical comedy wakes up and discovers that

03/01/2026

I have always believed that actors have more to tell about themselves than the characters they portray. They often project pieces of themselves into each

23/10/2025

It wasn’t long ago It wasn’t so long ago,that elders were respected.It wasn’t long ago when wrongs were regretted.People were human and they wore their

23/10/2025

The hero walked on, in the afternoon's scorching sun, trying to tie a torn bathroom slipper while dragging along the other tattered one with his left leg.

20/09/2025

"Every man nurses his fear,

A hymn whispered in shadowed cathedrals of the heart.

Freedom drips like molten gold, never quite enough,

Pooling beneath the second creator—

She, with her red-hearted berry,

A silent oracle of forbidden fruits."

The Second Creator    Every man nurses his fear, A hymn whispered in shadowed cathedrals of the heart. Freedom drips like molten gold, never

17/09/2025

"It all happened on a starry night under the moonlight. The Alarede festival was taking place at the village square in Oyo town where all the young maidens came to show their dancing skills by wiggling protuberant backsides."
https://nantygreens.com/fiction/short-story-akande-arike-babatunde-olowu/ #:~:text=It%20all%20happened%20on%20a%20starry%20night%20under%20the%20moonlight.%20The%20Alarede%20festival%20was%20taking%20place%20at%20the%20village%20square%20in%20Oyo%20town%20where%20all%20the%20young%20maidens%20came%20to%20show%20their%20dancing%20skills%20by%20wiggling%20protuberant%20backsides.

Like a deer loves its doe, A vixen,  her fox...‎ So did Arike and Akande's love story begin... It all happened on a starry night under the

12/09/2025

"there are days you wander in between trunks of trees in the darkest forest imbedded in your veins. you wished plucking your two lens out of their sockets; wanting not to behold avid zombies climbing the stoops of your spine."

3 Poems│Abuoya Eruot

04/09/2025

https://nantygreens.com/fiction/nameless-desire-damilola-olaniyi/

You heard the knock but you don't answer immediately. It is a Saturday, and you aren't expecting anybody. You look at your pile of laundry that is

26/08/2025

https://nantygreens.com/features/finding-me-viola-davis-review/ "Viola Davis’s memoir Finding Me shows how identity, trauma, and resilience shape not only the performer but also the person beneath the roles."

I have always believed that actors have more to tell about themselves than the characters they portray. They often project pieces of themselves into each