Nigerian writer Bode Asiyanbi has won the 2011 BBC African Performance playwriting competition.
Bode is studying on the Lancaster University Distance Learning MA in Creative Writing and he is a recipient of an International Scholarship for 2010-12.
It is the second time he has won the accolade - he was selected as the winner in 2005.

This year's winning play, Shattered, addresses the subject of rape, exposing in a powerful way the silence that often surrounds this crime.
This year's judge, Ugandan American actor and writer Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, said: "Shattered, for me, was the most layered story technically speaking and the most suspenseful. It dealt with a theme that is being wrestled with not just on the African continent but globally, and it did it in a way that shed light and heart on what is a complex issue."

For more information on this and an opportunity to study at Lancaster University (www.lancs.ac.uk) please contact us in Abuja and Lagos as follows:

Abuja
Wednesday, 9th November 2011
10 – 4 pm
British Council Plot
3645 IBB Way,
Maitaima,
Abuja

Lagos
Thursday, 10th November 2011
10 – 4 pm
Lancaster University Nigeria Regional Office
First Business Alliance Suites
2nd Floor Plot 5
Chief Yesufu Abiodun Street Off Ligali Ayorinde Street
Adjacent City of David Church
Oniru
Victoria Island, Lagos

Nom Habu is the Regional Officer for Lancaster university based in Lagos, Nigeria. To book for a session, please contact [email]n.habu@lancaster.ac.uk[/email].