A WORD OR TWO ABOUT SPRINNG INC.

In 2016, while in his third year at the University of Ibadan, KÁNYIN had an idea to start a movement. This time, his appetite for rebellion had little to do with the school administration or a tyrannical government. His focus was African literature. He was frustrated with the formal and linguistic homogeneity in the literature produced by his generation. He believed there wasn’t enough infrastructure to allow writers of diverse origins to thrive and develop their own identities. He placed this blame firmly on the shoulders of the old guard, who he felt did very little to pour back into their literary communities. And so, he founded SPRINNG Literary Movement (which then became SprinNG, and now Sprinng Inc.), a nonprofit dedicated to serving the African literary world through fellowships, contests, publication, and professional advancement opportunities.

Read more about the work being done by the good people at Sprinng here.