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.

Ganiyu Taofiq     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Kazeem Gbolagade     Muftau Akanbi Oke     University Road     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Ayedun     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Jumoke F. Ajao     Arandun     Aminat Omodara     Omoniyi     Nurudeen Muhammed     FOMWAN     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Bilikisu Gambari     Akeem Olatunji     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Balogun-Ojomu     Segun Adeniyi     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Ilorin General Hospital     Sam Okaula     General Hospital, Ilorin     Salake     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Kayode Ogunlowo     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Oluronke Adeyemi     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Kunbi Titiloye     Sulaiman Gado     Eghe Igbinehi     Ibrahim Gambari     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Musbau A. Akanji     Musa Abdullahi     Oniwa     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Yinka Aluko     Durosinlohun Atiku     Oko     Rasaq Jimoh     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Oye Tinuoye     Bello Oyedepo     Abdullahi Samari     Principal Private Secretary     Ahmad Ali     Dunmade     Marafan Shonga     Kubra Kazum     Charles Ibitoye     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Kola Olota     Folashade Omoniyi     Mamatu Abdullahi     Adekunle David Dunmade     John Olobayo     Kwara North     Mutawali     Labour Party     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Micheal Imoudu     Obasanjo     Gabriel Fashanu     Mohammed Saidu     PPS     Olokoba Sulyman     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Saliu Tunde Bello     Maigida Soludero Transit     Sanusi Abubakar    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Oloriegbe     Balogun Gambari     Magaji Nda     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Abraysports FC     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Moremi High School     Curfew     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Odo-Owa     Ajase-Ipo     Minimum Wage     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Gbemisola Saraki     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Bareke     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Hauwa Nuru     Lawal Jimoh     College Of Health     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Saheed Alakoso     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Mohammed Danjuma     Kanu Agabi     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Egbejila     Lateef Alagbonsi     Shonga Farm Project     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Nnazua     Smart School     Olaitan Buraimoh     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Mamatu Abdullahi     Belgore     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Kwara Polytechnic     Sarkin Malamai     General Hospital, Ilorin     Mufti Of Ilorin     Apado     Local Government Pension Board     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Aminat Omodara     Jelili Yusuf     Doyin Awoyale     Gamji Members Association     ENetSuD     Valsolar Consortium     Ballah     Ajia-Bako     Aliyu Adebayo     Neo Mundo Ltd     Hausa     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Seni Saraki     Okanlawon Musa     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Makama Of Kaiama     Alikinla     Kazeem Oladepo     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Owo Isowo     Bukola Saraki     Oke-Ero     Ilorin Muslim Community     Balikis Jawondo     Kunle Akogun     Aliyu Sabi     Sheikh Ariyibi     Firdaos Amasa