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Poet and author, Tade Ipadeola has emerged winner of the 2013 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, for his book- The Sahara Testament.

Making the announcement at the Oceanview Restaurant earlier today, General Manager, External Relations of NLNG, Kudo Eresia-Eke, said that in arriving as winner, Ipadeola used “Sahara as a metonym for the problems of Africa and indeed the whole of humanity.”

Tade’s book, The Sahara Testaments, beat the other 200 entries for this year’s edition of the prize that is worth $100,000.

According to the judges, the poet demonstrates “an outstanding level of intellectual exposure and knowledge, language use, awareness of literature.”

Ipadeola’s work beat Promise Ogochukwu’s Wild Letters and Through the Window of a Sandcastle by Amu Nnamdi.

Responding to the announcement, Ipadeola said: “I am elated; it is not everyday that one wins such a precious prize as the NLNG”.

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