New Culture Magazine was published out of Ibadan in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period of complex transition in Nigerian cultural life — the end of the civil war's long shadow, the oil boom's dislocations, and a literary scene navigating between the commitments of an older generation and the experiments of a newer one.
The magazine published fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism alongside visual art, making it one of the more genuinely interdisciplinary platforms of its era. It engaged seriously with the question of what Nigerian culture was becoming in the post-independence decades — a question that remains live.
Our eleven-issue run is one of the more complete sets in institutional hands and provides researchers with a relatively intact view of an important but understudied publication.