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.

Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Moji Makanjuola     Abdullahi Samari     Paul Odama     Kwara State Pension Board     Inside Kwara     Kolawole Bashirat     Overland     Ashiru     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     National Information Technology Development Agency     George Innih     Baboko Primary School     Halimat Yusuf     Makama Of Kaiama     Kwara State Sports Commission     Imam Gambari     Aliyu U. Tilde     Coronavirus     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     UNIFEMGA     Olaitan Buraimoh     Doyin Group     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Idofin     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Esinrogunjo     Ado Ibrahim     Kawu Baraje     Yomi Adeboye     Maryam Nurudeen     Manzuma     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Yakubu Shaaba     CKNG     Sherif Sagaya     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Erubu Oba Zubair     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Oke-opin     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Saliu Mustapha     Femi Gbajabiamila     Haliru Yahaya     Gbugbu International Market     Bola Sagaya     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Afonja     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Tunji Ajanaku     Folashade Omoniyi     University Road     Olawuyi     Najim Yaasin     TETFUND     Owu Fall     Surajudeen Akanbi     Teachers Specific Allowance     Bashirat Bola Bello     11th Galadima     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Goodluck Jonathan     Rafiu Ajakaye     Ilorin Muslim Community     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Kemi Adeosun     Iyeru Grammar School     Bolaji Nagode     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Kawu     Jide Oyinloye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Saka Onimago     Saheed Alakoso     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Ilorin West     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Saad Omo\'ya     Ndakene     James Ayeni     Olaiya Zuberu     Usman Rifun     Alabi Lawal     Segun Abifarin     EndSARS     Sadiq Buhari     TESCOM 2025     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Senate Presidency     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Mashood Dauda     A.E. Afolabi     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Monkey Pox     Face Masks     Sulyman Buhari     Yahaya Muhammad     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     TIC     Suleiman Mora Omar     Madawaki     African Democratic Congress     COVID     SAPZ Project     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Yakubu Dogara     Paul Olawoore     Aremu Odolaye     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Plat Technologies Limited     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Musa Yeketi     Alimi     The Herald     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Federal Allocation     Patigi Regatta     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Halimat Yusuf     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Post Utme     Fatai Olodo     Twitter     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     Bolaji Aladie     GANZY     Sunday Popo-Ola     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     John Olobayo     Oba Abdulraheem     Alikinla     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Charcoal     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Ibrahim Akaje     Olatunji Ibrahim     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Belgore     Ashiru     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Moshood Bakare     Dele Momodu     Abiodun Abdulkareem