Nigerian academic Dr Sule Emmanuel Egya, who writes poetry and fiction under the pen name E.E Sule, has won this year’s Commonwealth Book Prize for Africa. His first novel, Sterile Sky, published by Pearson Education in the African Writers Series in 2012, was adjudged best by the Commonwealth Prize panel.



Dr Egya has taught at Nasarawa State University and the University of Abuja and is currently an associate professor of English at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai. Besides poems and short stories published in numerous anthologies, literary magazines and journals, he has published three poetry volumes namely What the Sea Told Me (winner of the 2009 ANA Gabriel Okara Prize), Naked Sun, and Knifing Tongues.



Sterile Sky is a story of a gifted young Murtala who grew in Kano where violent riots exacerbated by his family’s own woes threaten to erase all he holds dear. Stalked by monsters, real and imagined, desperate to preserve a sense of self and the future, Murtala hunts for answers in the wreckage of the city and the book gives us a unique insight into modern life in northern Nigeria.

congrat

Congratulations!!!

Good to see another Nigerian writer doing well.

I am very glad Nigerian writers are gradually but steadily climbing and are being recognized for their works and its very encouraging to know he still lectures in Nigeria, its not inevitable that he would be poached.

Congrats

Congrats!

congrats fellow patriot

Very young man

congratulobia!!!!!!!!!!!

In one statement "Congrats sir!"

Congrats sir.

Congrataria!

Congratulobia

Tulations sir

congrats.

more ink to ur pen and more pages to consume d ink in ur books.

Congratulations

As no be Tontoh decay I fit bet my dinner(I don chop sha,okay 2mrw breakfast))say the thread no go pass 1 page....Congrats Doc,I hope to be like you in a few years time....time to start taking writing seriously

Congrats sir! Nigeria is the literary powerhouse of the commonwealth of nations.

He is a Nigerian. Point blank! Which one be wazobia thing again. He's not even Hausa. Please! Please!! Please!!! Enough of tribalism or tribal affiliation to success or failure please. Let's be civil when it matters most abeg.

This is a laudable acheivement, an inspiration to budding writers out there.
Congrats to him, as i look forward to read his works.

Ehnn good radiance to the stench of BH, NGF etc.
Congratulations Mr Lecturer.

I am a graduate of Nasarawa state university, keffi. DR. EE SULE WAS MY teacher.He is a brillant teacher but he has one hubris or weakness. That weakness is wọmanizing. He slept with young girls at the institution. When he was exposed,he sensed that the school will sack him,he hurridly resigned. All the same, i am happy for his award. I wish him more success. But please, he should stop corrupting the minds of young girls who have dreams of becoming like him in the nearest future. Dear Dr.E.E SULE, PLease work on your hubris.

kingeze88: I am graduate of Nasarawa state university, keffi. DR. EE SULE WAS MY teacher.He is a brillant teacher but he has one hubris or weakness. That weakness is wọmanizing. He slept with young girls at the institution. When he was exposed,he sensed that the school will sack him,he hurridly resigned. All the same, i am happy for his award. I wish him more success. But please, he should stop corrupting the minds of young girls who have dreams of becoming like him in the nearest future. Dear Dr.E.E SULE, PLease work on your hubris.

You are embarrassing yourself and all Nasarawa State University products with your written English. In fact, Dr. Sule will deny ever being your Lecturer with this nonsense you wrote.

Congratulation sir. More power to your elbow.

kingeze88: I am a graduate of Nasarawa state university, keffi. DR. EE SULE WAS MY teacher.He is a brillant teacher but he has one hubris or weakness. That weakness is wọmanizing. He slept with young girls at the institution. When he was exposed,he sensed that the school will sack him,he hurridly resigned. All the same, i am happy for his award. I wish him more success. But please, he should stop corrupting the minds of young girls who have dreams of becoming like him in the nearest future. Dear Dr.E.E SULE, PLease work on your hubris.

Who ask you ? Gosh ! When will Nigerians learn to mind their own business ,.and feel so cool with others success ? Hey Mr man ! Was all these you just ranted necessary?

gbogboti:

You are embarrassing yourself and all Nasarawa State University products with your written English. In fact, Dr. Sule will deny ever been your Lecturer with this nonsense you wrote.

Remove the log in your eyes before attempting to remove the spec in another man's eye

Excellent representation from the shores of Nigeria. Does someone know if he is a brother to SAmuel Azamu Egya, former member House of Reps. From nassarawa/ Toto fed constituency