KWASU don for Literature Prize

Date: 2017-09-07

Professor Tanure Ojaide, Head of Mass Communication Department, Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, is one of the three finalists for the 2017 edition of The Nigeria Prize for Literature.

Ojaide's entry, Songs of myself: Quartet, was shortlisted for the Nigeria LNG-sponsored $100,000 Literature Prize, alongside A Good Mourning written by Ogaga Ifowodo, and The Heresiad by Ikeogu Oke.

This followed an initial shortlist of 11 released in July by the Emeritus Professor Ayo Banjo-led Advisory Board.

A statement by the General Manager, External Relations, Nigeria LNG Limited, stated that The Nigeria Prize for Literature rotates yearly amongst four literary genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama and children's literature.

The 2017 Prize is for poetry and comes with a cash award prize of $100,000, the statement added.

It revealed that a total of 184 entries for the prize were received this year, while next year's prize will be for drama.

The statement quoted Professor Emeritus Banjo to have declared that the eventual winner of the competition would be announced at a World Press Conference in October, 2017.

Ojaide's Songs of myself: Quartet, published by Kraft Books Ltd, explores paradoxes in contemporary times presented in discursive lyricism. It reflects the journey to the deepest vicissitudes of the adventurer himself.

Ojaide, who won the 2016 Nigerian National Order of Merit in Humanities, is a Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa. He has won several awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region, the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry, the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award and the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Award.

In a congratulatory message, the Vice-Chancellor, Kwara State University, Prof. AbdulRasheed Na'Allah, said KWASU is greatly honoured by Ojaide's excellent feat.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwasu     Just Law Forum     Innocent Okoye     Modibbo Kawu     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Risikat Lawal     Ibrahim Abikan     VADA     Admiralty Villa     Kwarareports     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Baakini     Musa Yeketi     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Ajikobi     Emir Of Ilorin     Aso-ofi     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Olusola Saraki     Revenue Court     Oke-Odo     Saraki     Idiagbon     Kolo     Frootify     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Bolakale Ayo     Pategi     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Salihu Ajia     Kubra Kazum     Sardauna     Nigeria Computer Society     Offa Grammer School     Alanamu     Kwara TV     CBT     Fatimoh Lawal     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Adisa Logun     Budo Egba     Abdulhakeem Amao     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Yusuf Aiyedun     KwaraLearn     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Kwara United     Peter Obi     NURTW     Seun Bolaji     Reuben Paraje     Yekini Adio     Baba-Isale     Bamikole Omishore     Nigerian Correctional Service     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Isiaka Danmeromu     Facebook     Wole Oke     Joseph Offorjama     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     GGDSS Pakata     Toyin Abdullahi     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Kwara State Pension Board     Yakub Ali-Agan     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Oko-Olowo     KWASIEC     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Sadiq Umar     Metro Park     Ibrahim Akaje     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Revenue Court     TIIDELab     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Turaki     Lanre Issa Onilu     Akeem Lawal     Arik     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Iyiola Oyedepo     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     HYPPADEC     Christopher Odetunde     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Kwha.gov.ng     Royal FM     National Party Of Nigeria     Ronke Adeyemi     Bola Tinubu     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Ibrahim Abiodun     Eghe Igbinehin     Sheikh Alimi     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Wahab Issa     Elese Of Igbaja     Emmanuel Bello     Mohammed Abdulahi     Lateef Alagbonsi     Mamatu Abdullahi     Hijab     Manzuma     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Folorunsho Alao     Balogun-Ojomu     Nnazua     Awili Pedro     Saad Belgore     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Read With Me     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Gurei     Wole Oke     Isiaka Oniwa     Ilorin Metro Park     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Oja-Oba     Olatunji Moronfoye     Mohammed Ibrahim     Edret Sabi Abel     Yunus Oniboki     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Ayekale     Maimunat Oniyangi     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Amuda Musbau     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Quareeb     Mumeen Lah     Bankole Omisore     First Lady     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Obuh     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Lanre Badmas     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Ballah     Akeem Olatunji     Zulu Gambari     Shururat Olatinwo     QuickWin     Rihanat Ajia     Paul Odama     Durbar Festival     Egbewole