{"id":351,"date":"2025-08-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:08:02","slug":"how-black-orpheus-magazine-shaped-modern-african-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/how-black-orpheus-magazine-shaped-modern-african-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"How Black Orpheus magazine shaped modern African literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years before Nigeria\u2019s civil war, an expat academic waved the flag for African writing by launching the Black Orpheus journal. From 1957 to 1967, German \u00e9migr\u00e9 Ulli Beier united a clamour of voices in different tongues, bound beneath strikingly graphic covers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years before Nigeria\u2019s civil war, an expat academic waved the flag for African writing by launching the Black Orpheus journal. From 1957 to 1967, German \u00e9migr\u00e9 Ulli Beier united<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/how-black-orpheus-magazine-shaped-modern-african-literature\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Black Orpheus magazine shaped modern African literature<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stylethelook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}