October 2026 - Page 8 of 8 - The Lagos Review

Gabriel Afolayan leads a wave of soulful reflection & resilience across new releases

Themes of resilience and faith run through a new set of Nigerian releases, as artists…

Angèle releases ‘Love Triangle’ featuring Caroline Polachek & SebastiAn

Angèle has released new single “Love Triangle,” a collaboration with American artist Caroline Polachek and…

Ooreoluwa Agbede wins 2026 Quramo Writers Prize with ‘Four Months’

Ooreoluwa O. Agbede has won the 2026 Quramo Writers Prize (QWP) with his manuscript, “Four…

Crown Troupe of Africa stages ‘Moremi RSV’ at New Africa Shrine

Crown Troupe of Africa will stage its theatrical production, “Moremi RSV,” at the New Africa…

10 Years of Words: Shasore reflects on decade of QFest & transformative power of stories – Terh Agbedeh

When the Quramo Festival of Words (QFest) first opened its doors a decade ago, its…

Center for Fiction announces 2026 First Novel Prize shortlist

The Center for Fiction has revealed the seven-book shortlist for its 2026 First Novel Prize,…

QFest begins without Obasanjo

Organisers of Quramo Festival of Words regret to announce the unavailability of Nigeria’s former President…

An Open Letter to a DISTRESSED Priest – Wole Soyinka

My dear Reverend Aburo, You have reached out to me, and I feel moved by…

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Playing “Lagos Life” and Making It Big in a Virtual City – Yusuf Zay

I must commend the developer Shalom who clearly took the saying “the devil is in the details” to heart. From Quilox, Freedom Park and iFitness to Owambes, Third Mainland Bridge traffic and the occasional robbery by area boys, Lagos is not just a backdrop but a fully immersive world that is part of the joke, charm and appeal of the game. Abuja and Port Harcourt are represented too, giving Nigerians a digital playground that feels like home.

The City That Was Waiting – Mariam Mimi Abdullahi

Somewhere between those readings, shared meals and quiet conversations, the people I had met at the airport stopped feeling like strangers. The city outside the workshop continued moving in its usual Lagos way, but inside that room, I had found a slower kind of movement—the movement of ideas between people.

Black Tax and the Grief of Living – Yasir

The grief of living is not the grief of losing. It is the grief of trying, of being in the middle of something hard with no clear end date, no guarantee, no moment where someone officially tells you it is okay to feel how you feel. It is the grief of a salary already spent. Of a father’s diagnosis that rearranged everything and the relief that he is fine now, which somehow does not cancel the weight of what it took to get there.

The Story We Have Not Yet Told: Creativity, Culture and Nigeria’s Next Chapter – Ife Adebayo

Now, I would be dishonest if I stood here in 2026 and spoke about the future of the creative economy without naming the force that is already remaking it: artificial intelligence. And I know the fear in this room, because I share the caution -that the machine will flatten our voice, that it will make every story sound the same, that it will take the bread from the animator and the editor and the writer. That fear is not foolish.

A City Girl’s Post-Breakup Recovery Manual – by Vuyokazi Ngemntu

She’ll wrap her arms around you when her inquiry into your well-being causes your spine to collapse. Sensing your discomfort, she will sit beside you quietly, covered in your musty duvet. A movie will watch the two of you until Uber Eats arrives. You will take a few pizza bites for her sake and find that it struggles to push past the permanent lump in your throat. Too numb to protest, you’ll get into the bath she runs you and sit there sobbing while she changes your linen.

Month: October 2026