To commemorate 50 years of independence, we organised a special recognition programme honouring 50 Nigerians whose work had shaped the nation’s intellectual and cultural landscape… Among them were Wole Soyinka, Chinua …
KEWA was an easygoing leader, but never absent. He listened, asked the right questions, and intervened with quiet, practical clarity. Not long after the public announcement, the administrator …
The most difficult test came in 2004, when the judges of the Nigeria Prize for Literature declared that there would be no winner… The decision was principled… The entries did not meet …
In February 2004, at Eko Hotels in Lagos, the announcement was made… Africa’s most valuable literary prize… A scientific honour of national significance… A purse that would grow to one $100,000, placing it …
I studied the great prizes of the world with the care of a graduate student. The Nobel. The Pulitzer. The Booker. I was interested not merely in their prestige, but …
I have often thought of those administrators who, unable to alter inherited legal structures, enforced them against their own people while quietly expressing concern in private. That was the sad …
I began my career in journalism as a Sub-Editor at The Guardian and rose to become Political Editor of The Independent. Even earlier, in 1983, I had been an intern …
Today, the Nigeria Prize for Literature stands as one of the world’s most valuable literary prizes and arguably the most prestigious literary award on the African continent. But prizes …
…the story of how Nigeria’s foremost literature and science prizes came into being is worth preserving… It is a story of ideas, persistence, setbacks, compromise, coalition-building, public criticism, and occasionally sheer …
Every project is different. Every project has its own problems. The main problem in Nigeria was the history of the project. It had been going on in some shape or …
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