AGBOWO 2025 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Call for Submissions | Agbowó October 2025 | Unthemed Issue
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Agbowo Magazine Cover- The Liminal Issue December 2024
Agbowó Magazine – The Liminal Issue
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Requiem for the Iron Monkeys | Olubunmi Familoni
Requiem for the Iron Monkeys — Olubunmi Familoni
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Fiction

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The Devil is Not Your Friend or Women’s Wrongs - Ope Adedeji
The Devil is Not Your Friend or Women’s Wrongs | Ope Adedeji
An Invitation | Reyumeh Ejue
An Invitation | Reyumeh Ejue
A Eulogy for Happy Girls - Chidera Anikpe
A Eulogy for Happy Girls | Chidera Anikpe
The Bottom Line Thabi Moeketsi Agbowo | Best African Fiction by women
The Bottom Line | Thabi Moeketsi
Pain like Growing Wings Margaret Muthee Agbowo | Best African Fiction by Women
Pain like Growing Wings | Margaret Muthee
Fọ̀nàhànmí Ọrẹolúwa Oyinlọlá Agbowo Best fiction by African women
Fọ̀nàhànmí | Ọrẹolúwa Oyinlọlá
We Do Not Belong to The Water | Solomon Hamza
How to be a man | Divine Inyang | Agbowo Art | African Literary Art
How to be a man | Divine Inyang
One Way Ticket- Valerie Chatindo | Agbowo
One Way Ticket | Valerie Chatindo
Market roads | Chinaza Davina | Agbowo
Market roads | Chinaza Davina
Black Tax | Masimba Musodza | Agbowo
Black Tax | Masimba Musodza 
Liberté. | Moustapha Mbacké Diop | Agbowo
Liberté. | Moustapha Mbacké Diop
WANTS — Ucheoma Onwutuebe | Agbowo
Wants | Ucheoma Onwutuebe
Gravity god | Erere Onyeugbo
Incubus | Loic Ekinga | Agbowo | Reincarnation Issue 2022
Incubus | Loic Ekinga
The Empty Shape of New Life | Panashe Nyagwambo | Agbowo | Reincarnation Issue 2022
The Empty Shape of New Life | Panashe Nyagwambo
The Well | Anathi Jongilanga | Agbowo | Reincarnation Issue 2022
The Well | Anathi Jongilanga
Vimbiso | Chioniso Tsikisayi | Agbowo | Reincarnation Issue 2022
Vimbiso | Chioniso Tsikisayi
Don’t sing; just move your lips | Stephen Langtry | Agbowo Art | African Literary Publication
Don’t sing; just move your lips | Stephen Langtry
Coupla Tuskers | Shaun Pieter Clamp
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Poetry

Eve Gives Her Own Account | Chiwenite Onyekwelu
Count of the Flesh - Linette Marie Allen
Count of the Flesh –  Linette Marie Allen
Baby Whale | Habiba Dokubo-Asari
Baby Whale | Dokubo-Asari Habiba
Coming Clean | Chiwenite Onyekwelu
Coming Clean | Chiwenite Onyekwelu
Daddy's Girl | Itiola Jones
Daddy’s Girl | Itiola Jones
Home - AbdulKareem AbdulKareem
Home | Abdulkareem Abdulkareem
Lonely People | Phodiso Modirwa
Lonely People | Phodiso Modirwa
On Grief Tryphena L. Yeboah Agbowo Best African poems
On Grief | Tryphena L. Yeboah
Iyanuoluwa Adenle Open Agbowo Best African poems
Open | Iyanuoluwa Adenle
and her friend once said that maybe if she were having more sex she wouldn’t need the pills Manthipe Moila Agbowo Best African poems
and her friend once said that maybe if she were having more sex she wouldn’t need the pills | Manthipe Moila
Figuring Golden Ratio in Room Built in 15th Century Michelle N'ankra Oppong Agbowo Best African Poems
Figuring Golden Ratio in Room Built in 15th Century | Michelle N’ankra Oppong
Supination in Church & Onyame was Formerly Understood as Woman Michelle N'ankra Oppong Agbowo Best African Poems
Supination in Church & Onyame was Formerly Understood as Woman | Michelle N’ankra Oppong
Sadness at Pharmacy Michelle N'ankra Oppong Agbowo Best African Poems
Sadness at Pharmacy | Michelle N’ankra Oppong
Rain Njeri Wangari Agbowo best African poems by women
Rain | Njeri Wangari
My Name Hajaarh Muhammad Bashar Agbowo Best African stories by women
My Name | Hajaarh Muhammad Bashar
Devotion | Tryphena L. Yeboah | Agbowo | Top African poems
Devotion | Tryphena L. Yeboah
Editor's prize 2023 candlelight- Elias Udo Ochi
Elias-Udo Ochi’s Candlelight wins the Inaugural Editor’s Prize
Hope is a Cruel Thing | Jide Badmus | Agbowo Art | African Literary Art
Hope is a Cruel Thing | Jide Badmus
Run | Michael Imossan | Agbowo Art | Transition Issue | July 2023
Run | Michael Imossan
Elevate | Fatihah Quadri Eniola | Agbowo Art
Elevate | Fatihah Quadri Eniola
Elias Udo-Ochi | Candlelight | Agbowo Art | African Poems
Candlelight | Elias Udo-Ochi
Choolwe Lubaya Portrait of copying with a new beginning | Agbowo Art | African Literary Art
Portrait of copying with a new beginning | Choolwe Lubaya
Unusual Metaphors | Jide Badmus | Agbowo Art | African Literary Art
Unusual Metaphors | Jide Badmus
Mist | Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi | Agbowo African literary art
Mist | Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
Agbowo Editor's Prize for Poetry, Alinea Prize for Nonfiction
Agbowó introduces Prizes for Poetry and Nonfiction
Overcomer Ibiteye | Infidel | Agbowo
Infidel | Overcomer Ibiteye
Like my Dreams Weren’t Made of Glass | Saddiq Dzukogi  | Agbowo
Like my Dreams Weren’t Made of Glass | Saddiq Dzukogi 
What It Means to Be Born in the Niger Delta | Tope Abigail Larayetan
Letter to Self - Saddiq Dzukogi | Agbowo
Letter to Self – Saddiq Dzukogi 
Through my Window, the Demons Within | S. Su'eddie Vershima Agema | Agbowo 2022
Through my Window, the Demons Within | S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema
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INTERVIEWS

ABU BAKR SADIQ
On Leaked Footages: An Interview with Abu Bakr Sadiq
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Tega Ethan | Unbox | Agbowo.org
Unboxing Tega Ethan
Margaret Muthee | Unbox | Agbowo.org
Unboxing Margaret Muthee
Unboxing Tryphena Yeboah
Oreoluwa Oyinlola | Unbox | Agbowo.org
Unboxing Ọrẹolúwa Oyinlọlá

FEATURED

We Do Not Belong to The Water | Solomon Hamza

ISSUE 7 | JULY 2023 | TRANSITION ISSUE “There’s water in the boat! Look, there’s…

Mist | Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi | Agbowo African literary art
Mist | Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
Run | Michael Imossan | Agbowo Art | Transition Issue | July 2023
Run | Michael Imossan
Elias Udo-Ochi | Candlelight | Agbowo Art | African Poems
Candlelight | Elias Udo-Ochi
In a New City, Fragmented Realities Haunt Me Awake | Noni R. Mwangi | Agbowo Art | African Nonfiction
In a New City, Fragmented Realities Haunt Me Awake | Noni R. Mwangi
Agbowo Transition Issue Contributors Magazine
Read the Transition Issue | July 2023

ESSAYS

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In my head is a market | Akinyemi Adedeji

In my head is a market | Temitayo Akinyemi

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No Where, In-between | Muti’ah Badruddeen

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Two hills, the birds, walking and worlding Rahima Gambo Agbowo | Best nonfiction by African women
Two hills, the birds, walking and worlding | Rahima Gambo
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Alinea-prize-winner-Tochukwu-Eze
Tochukwu Eze wins the 2023 Alinea Prize for Nonfiction
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‘I Live in a House of Shriking Things | Tochukwu Eze | Alinea Prize | Agbowo
I Live in a House of Shrinking Things | Tochukwu Precious Eze
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Visual Arts

Interview and Works | Oyi Sands
Interview and Works | TobyDPhotographer
Interview and Works | Lucynder Osunde
Emi Ni | Abisola Gbadamosi | Agbowo | Women visual artists
Emi Ni (I am) | Abisola Gbadamosi
What Home Feels Like | Iman Hassan | Agbowo | Best visual artists in Africa
What Home Feels Like | Iman Hassan
Post Card Series | Adetolani Eko
Mother
Mother | Ian Njuguna
Out of Reach 2
Out of Reach | Victor Olatunji

Drama

Requiem for the Iron Monkeys | Olubunmi Familoni
Requiem for the Iron Monkeys — Olubunmi Familoni
What Does Half of a Rebirth Weigh | Olubunmi Familoni | Agbowo | Reincarnation Issue 2022
What Does Half of a Rebirth Weigh | Olubunmi Familoni
Agbowó Magazine – The Chaos Issue
R.E.A.C.T | Ayomide Bayowa | Agbowo Art| African literary art
R.E.A.C.T | Ayomide Bayowa
Drive-by | Olamide Olanrewaju Morenikeji Adio | Agbowo Art | African Literary Art
Drive-by | Olamide Àdìó Olanrewaju
Agbowo Magazine 2021 | Chaos | African Art | Literary and Visual Art
Call for Submissions | Chaos | Agbowó July 2021
The Memory Issue Contributors' List Agbowo Art Magazine African Literary Art
See the Contributors’ List for The Memory Issue- Agbowo 2020 Magazine
The Visit Abraham Omale Agbowo Art African Literary Art
The Visit | Abraham Omale
Wearing A Rainbow on Her Heart Bunmi Familoni Agbowo Art African Literary Art
Wearing a Rainbow on Her Heart | Bunmi Familoni