Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, Author at The Republic

Mgbeojikwe

Ani Kayode Somtochukwu·August 24, 2025

‘Jikwe, why did you not marry?’ Okenwa asks, his gaze holding Mgbeojikwe’s. ‘What were you thinking?’ … ‘I could have married you,’ he says, adjusting in his seat, ‘In a different world.’ Read More...

August/September 2025 Fiction vol9-no3

‘Writers Have the Obligation of Imagining the Future That Must Be Achieved’ Ani Kayode Somtochukwu’s First Draft

Ani Kayode Somtochukwu·May 11, 2025

Nigerian queer liberation activist and author of And Then He Sang a Lullaby, Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, describes his writing as an expression of love for the African people: ‘I like to think of my writing as an expression of love for the African people, a commitment to our capacity for justice and liberty, an insistence on dreaming our freedom as an inevitable eventuality. I want to be an incendiary bomb. And I know that stories have that power.’ Read More...

April/May 2025 First Draft Interviews Nigeria

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Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

Mgbeojikwe

‘Writers Have the Obligation of Imagining the Future That Must Be Achieved’ Ani Kayode Somtochukwu’s First Draft

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