Tag: Toni Kan

  At Adna with a Pen – Hubaidat Ishola

The next evening, we gathered at Rovingheights for a book reading. I read an excerpt from my then-unpublished novel, The Inheritance of Days, straight from my phone. Mariam and Charity took it upon themselves to photograph me. I am not usually one to seek out a camera, but they kept adjusting angles, and insisting on one more picture.

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.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – THE LAGOS REVIEW WRITING WEEKEND

Over 3 days, they will learn how to write compelling and insightful music, book and movie reviews as well as essays. Our facilitators would be led by Ellah Allfrey Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL,  Editor-at-large at Canongate, former deputy editor at Granta, past Booker prize and International Dublin Literary award judge and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize and thelagosreview.ng advisory board.

A Chronicle of the COVID-19 pandemic – Olukorede  S Yishau

In telling this important story, Riding the Storm becomes more than a record of events. It is a meditation on leadership under pressure, on Africa’s capacity for self-organisation, and on what it means to act decisively when history accelerates. Kan’s prose allows the reader to feel the anxiety of the early days, the urgency of closed-door negotiations, and the quiet triumph of systems

Our Best Essays and Reviews of 2025

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