Farafina Magazine
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Farafina Magazine is a bimonthly publication which provides a high quality medium for people all over the world to freely express their world view. It is a general interest magazine written in simple uncluttered prose and illustrated with humorous drawings and photographs. The magazine has received strong commendations from people from different walks of life.
The magazine has been guest edited by Olajide Bello, Okey Ndibe, Molara Wood, Toni Kan, Uzodinma Iweala
, Petina Gappah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
and Laila Lalami
.
Farafina Magazine has featured the works of Wole Soyinka
, Segun Afolabi, Uche James Iroha, Funmi Iyanda, Dinaw Mengestu
, Barbara Murray, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Helon Habila
, Tosin Oshinowo, Patrice Nganang, Jide Alakija, and a plethora of other writers and graphical artists.
The magazine has been guest edited by Olajide Bello, Okey Ndibe, Molara Wood, Toni Kan, Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala
Dr. Uzodinma Iweala is an author and physician who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country...
, Petina Gappah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life and education:...
and Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is a Moroccan American novelist and essayist.Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her B.A. in English from Université Mohammed V. In 1991, she received a British Council fellowship to study in England, and she went on to complete a M.A. in Linguistics at...
.
Farafina Magazine has featured the works of Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
, Segun Afolabi, Uche James Iroha, Funmi Iyanda, Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu is an award-winning American novelist and writer, who was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In addition to two novels, he has written for Rolling Stone on the war in Darfur, and for Jane Magazine on the conflict in northern Uganda...
, Barbara Murray, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Helon Habila
Helon Habila
Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist and poet. He won the Caine Prize for African fiction in 2001, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003....
, Tosin Oshinowo, Patrice Nganang, Jide Alakija, and a plethora of other writers and graphical artists.