These are folks dat deserves national honours, merit award and not, our protruding bellied politicians whose salaries alone is not enough for its maintenance. God bless Naija; my home,my pride.

Very impressive and inspiring. Congratulations to you and wishing you the best.

Good to know

Datz nice for nigerians. But, why are writers queer? The other day I heard Chimmamanda doesn't make her hair with foreign products. Ngwui wa thiong refuses to speak English again prefering his mother tongue swahili. Chika unigwe married a white. Wole Shoyinka is an atheist...And on and on and on.

great news....congrats to them.....nigerians are great people...

Daatlaw11: Datz nice for nigerians. But, why are writers queer? The other day I heard Chimmamanda doesn't make her hair with foreign products. Ngwui wa thiong refuses to speak English again prefering his mother tongue swahili. Chika unigwe married a white. Wole Shoyinka is an atheist...And on and on and on.

someone has to be extraordinary to be great i guess.....normal people aint great.....check even the richest people...dey re all queer one way or the other

Daatlaw11: Datz nice for nigerians. But, why are writers queer? The other day I heard Chimmamanda doesn't make her hair with foreign products. Ngwui wa thiong refuses to speak English again prefering his mother tongue swahili. Chika unigwe married a white. Wole Shoyinka is an atheist...And on and on and on.

You call it queer we call it seelf belief. Watch out fomr me after the demise of Nigeria

Jarus: This Elnathan John is one funny dude.

His blog cracks me up:

From his profile:



To his latest blog posts:



The guy funny die

http://elnathanjohn..com/

Congrats to him on his Caine nomination

His sense of humour rocks.

I have a very comprehensive report with the list of all previously shortlisted Nigerian authors who did not win, but later won bigger prizes and in fact are more famous than the winners, including Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie, Sefi Atta and Uwem Akpan with some of the details of their bestselling books.

See the report on http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2013/05/chinelo-okparanta-and-three-other.html

This is indeed a great news....been expecting this for long now....congrats...congrats!!! And in a related good news, 2 other Nigerian writers have been shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize....congrats to our own!!! You can see details here> https://www.nairaland.com/1292500/2-nigerian-writers-shortlisted-commonwealth

Daatlaw11: Datz nice for nigerians. But, why are writers queer? The other day I heard Chimmamanda doesn't make her hair with foreign products. Ngwui wa thiong refuses to speak English again prefering his mother tongue swahili. Chika unigwe married a white. Wole Shoyinka is an atheist...And on and on and on.

Literature is a very difficult thing as it takes a lot both mentally and psychologically, a lot of successful people in literature are "queer" cos of this