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.

Samari     Idofin     Yakubu Shaaba     Ayo Adeyemi     Bello Abubakar     Owo Arugbo     Toyin Falola     Kwara State Polytechnic     Saheed Popoola     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Malete     General Hospital, Ilorin     MATTA Girls Foundation     Saka Onimago     Harmony Holdings     Tinubu     Muhammadu Gobir     Transition Implementation Committee     Noah Yusuf     Eghe Igbinehi     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Hassan Saliu     Unilorin FM     KWASSIP     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Ajia-Bako     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Kulende     Jimoh Bashir     Ike Ekweremadu     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Haliru Dantoro     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Raimi Iyanda     College Of Health     KWASEIC     Ubandawaki     Yekeen Alabi     Titus Ashaolu     COVID     Tafida Of Kaiama     Durosinlohun Atiku     Garba Ayodele Wahab     United Nigeria Airline     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Baboko Primary School     Bature Bello     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Olusola Saraki     Saad Omo Iya     Micheal Imoudu     Tunde Kazeem     Okoolowo     Olatinwo     Abubakar Aliagan     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Yakubu Danladi     Timothy Akangbe     Emir Of Lafiagi     Ayinde Oki     Offorjama     Inside Kwara     NYSC     Mary Arinde     Col. Taiwo     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Adamu Attah     Durbar Festival     KWSUED     SARS     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Segun Abifarin     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Amasa     Dagbalodo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sherif Shagaya     Muritala Awodun     Eleja     ITP     Ojo Isekuse     Kazeem Oladepo     Akanbi-Oke     Mujtabah Bature     Oluranti Idowu     Olupako Of Share     Damilola Yusuf     Ilorin Muslim Community     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Isiaka Gold     Aliyu Sabi     Idiagbon     Eghe Igbinehin     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Buari Edun     Jalala     IYA YUSUF     Joseph Daudu     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Lola Ashiru     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     GGDSS Pakata     International Vocational Centre     Segun Ogunsola     Admiralty Villa     AbdulRahman Saad     Omu Aran     IsDB     Salihu Yahaya     Tunji Ajanaku     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Tafida     Awodun     Shururat Olatinwo     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Ilesha-Gwanara     07039448763     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Jebba     SARS     Pacify Labs     Ado Bayero     Aliyu Muhammed     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Oloje     Ilota     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Emmanuel Bello     Idowu Laro     KWASAA     Assayomo     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Borgu     Ifelodun     NIPOGA     Matthew Babaoye     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Olayinka Are     Adegoke Bamidele     Ubandawaki     KWACOBPA     Kwabes