Initially publishing just poetry, fiction, essays and visual art, the magazine expanded to include one-act plays in 2019. The journal published its first annual issue in 2018 and published two themed editions Limits and Memory to numerous plaudits. As at 2020, the magazine, catering exclusively to the African continent and its diaspora have published work from Rwanda, Malawi, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Mali, Uganda, Ghana, and DR Congo. The magazine has since gone on to publish the literary works of both prominent and emerging African writers including Efe Paul Azino, Toni Kan, Jumoke Verrisimo, Romeo Oriogun and Logan February. The first publication of the new literary magazine was award-winning Nigerian poet, Tade Ipadeola's On Desire. The magazine bears the name of the street opposite the University of Ibadan, the alma mater of the founders, symbolizing their move out of the ivory tower but Oredola Ibrahim, a founding editor, offered a different exegesis - 'collectors of things of value'.

The journal has published several works of literary and visual art since its launch in 2017 as well as three issues-X, Limits, Memory-of an annual, themed magazine.įounded by Habeeb Kolade and Dolapo Amusat in 2017, the journal began as an expansion on the UItes WRITE Anthology (2015–2019), a literary anthology seeking to publish prose, poetry and fiction by University of Ibadan students and alumni. Agbowó is an African literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, essays, drama and visual art.

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