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.

Ajibike Katibi     Voices Of Tomorrow     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Olabanji Orilonishe     Kola Shittu     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Abubakar Imam     Musa Yeketi     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Kayode Yusuf     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Zaratu Umar     Kwara Hotel     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Bank Of Industry     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Apado     Dele Belgore     Salami Adekunle     Ajase-Ipo     NIPR     Bolaji Nagode     Nigerian Correctional Service     IQRA College     Halidu Danbaba     Bamidele Aluko     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Shonga     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Prince Bola Ajibola     Public Holiday     JAMB     Ayinde Oyepitan     Ariyo     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Olatunde Jare     GAMA     Elerinjare     Iyeru Grammar School     Seed Technologies     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Abdulazeez Uthman     Nurudeen Mohammed     Yoonus Lawal     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Owo Arugbo     Sunday Fagbemi     Baba Idris     Hamza Usman     Medview Airlines     Alabi Lawal     Baboko Primary School     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Ilorin Water Reticulation     KWAFFA     Kemi Adeosun     Manzuma     Summit University     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Logun     Haliru Yahaya     Jimoh Bashir     Kumbi Titiloye     Boko Haram     Benin Republic     Raimi Iyanda     Garment Factory     Kwara United     Mamman Saba Jibril     College Of Health     Michael Nzekwe     Okin Biscuit    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Segun Olawoyin     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Nagode     Surajudeen Akanbi     Umar Adelodun     Ilorin.Info     Offorjama     Sai Kayi     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     IHS     Saba Jibril     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     ASMAU PLAZA     Florence Saraki     Mufutau Olatinwo     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     AbdulGafar Tosho     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Oloyede     Timothy Akangbe     Arca Santa     Maimunat Oniyangi     International Aviation College     Iyiola Oyedepo     Galland Marcias     Isiaq Khadeejah     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     N-Power     Femi Gbajabiamila     Abdulazeez Arowona     Oko     Kwara State Polytechnic     Dankaka     Sidikat Alaya     Isiaka Yusuf     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Seed Technologies     Ladi Hassan     Mohammed Abduraheem     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Kishira     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Amoyo     Salaudeen Oyewale     Saheed Alakoso     Saliu Ajia     Ajia-Bako     Saka Saadu     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Seun Bolaji     Ado Bayero     Kwara Hotel     Egbewole     George Funsho Adebayo     Yahaya Seriki     Mansur Alfanla     Sa\'adu Gambari     Tunji Olawuyi     Royal FM     Moses Afolayan     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Erubu Oba Zubair     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Dan Masanin     Raheem Adaramaja     Ajike People Support Centre     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Sidikat Akaje     Awwal Jawondo     Amusa Bello     Dele Momodu