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Lead Story · Fiction · Iskanchi Magazine

You Came Here To Rest

Shortlisted · Iskanchi Magazine Prize (2024)

To make any friend, be desperate like you're trying to make your first friend in a jungle where they eat small animals and you are a small animal.

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Recognition & Prizes
Longlisted · Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize (2023)
Shortlisted · Iskanchi Magazine Prize (2024)
Longlisted · Dzanc Prize (2024)
Longlisted · Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2020)
Represented by
Alexa Stark
Writers House, New York

Fiction · 2026 · Lolwe

Come Come, Let's Go Cycling in the Woods

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Fiction · The Bare Life Review

Homegoing

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Fiction · Necessary Fiction

Thinny Mister Howards

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Research · 2026 · Nieuwe Instituut

On the Politics of Music Video Culture

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2018 · Maputo · Colab NowNow

Vertigo

Generative web piece — photography and p5.js in the browser.

p5.js Installation British Council Generative Art
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2024 · Hugging Face

Masquerade Classifier

Classify Gelede, Egungun, and Agemo masquerades from images.

ResNet18 PyTorch Gradio
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2020 · Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

An Afrikan Poet Cries at the Wind

Poems from the internet, sent one at a time to subscribers.

Archive Distribution Poetry
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Web · Lagos · mílíkì.ng

MÍLÍKÌ

Website for MÍLÍKÌ, a cultural lounge in Victoria Island, Lagos.

Web Lagos Cultural Institution
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Interactive Poetry · Web

Graceland

Interactive poem — conversations with my father, on the web.

JavaScript Interactive Fiction Web3
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