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.

Olokoba     Bursary     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Ilorin Muslim Community     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Igbaja     Ibrahim Gambari     Habeeb Saidu     Budo-Egba     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Adijat Adebiyi     TIC     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     NAWOJ     Rasaq Jimoh     Aremu Bose Deborah     V.O. Abioye     Oyun     Bamikole Omishore     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Jimoh Akani     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Moses Adekanye     General Hospital, Ilorin     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Kolawole Bashirat     Elections     Muhammed Aliyu     Anilelerin     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Igosun     NIRSAL     Dan Masanin     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Abdulfatai Baakini     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Gwanara     Demola Banu     Share     Ghali Muhammed     Titus Ashaolu     BIR     Maryam A. Garuba     Aremu Odolaye     Balogun Gambari     Jaiz Bank     Gbenga Awoyale     Jide Ashonibare     Ridwan Agboola     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Umar Sanda Yusuf     AGM Professional Services     Yusuf Ali     Gambari     Abdulazeez Arowona     Hussein Oloyede     Emir Of Lafiagi     Iqra Books     Suleman Abubakar     Olam Food Ingredients     Abdulmutalib Shittu     ENetSuD     Alagbado     Ahmed Bayero     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Ojo Fadumila     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Goodluck Jonathan     Isin     Osi     FERMA     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Okanlawon Taiwo     Neo Mundo Ltd     Atiku     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Admiralty Villa     Akeem Lawal     Bibire Ajape     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Moro     Olatunji Ibrahim     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Aiyedun     Oyelere Oyinloye     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Ilorin Amusement Park     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Share/Tsaragi     Metro Park     Taofik Mustapha     Kwara State Pension Board     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Ronke Adeyemi     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Gobir     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Doyin Awoyale     Oke Sunna     Ayekale     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     United Nigeria Congress Party     Women For Change And Development Initiative     AbdulQowiy Olododo     BIR     Alagbado     Javed Khan     Obasanjo     Saliu Alamoyo     Kolawole Bashirat     Yaru     Alfa Yahaya Road     Afetu Of Alabe     Lanre Issa-Onilu     GAMA     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Ebola     ER-KANG     Musa Alhassan Buge     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     ASMAU PLAZA     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     KWACOBPA     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Sobi FM     Lai Mohammed     Temi Kolawole     Muhammadu Gobir     Government House     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Olokoba     Baba Isale     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     General Hospital, Ilorin     Kazeem Oladepo     Ilofa     Monthly Sanitation     Anilelerin     Olupako     Saheed Alakoso     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Emir Of Ilorin     Otoge     Jamiu Oyawoye     Rafiu Ibrahim     N-Power