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Nigerian Wins Caine Prize For African Writing by babalobi(m): 5:35pm On Jul 07, 2009 |
Nigerians in Nigeria and in diaspora, continue to excel in various endeavours through solo efforts, bringing accolades to the beleaguered country. This is in sharp contrast to the failure of public leadership and governance at home. The latest distinguished Nigerian is no other person than E C Osondu, who last night won the £10,000 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, the 10th year of the prize. His story, “Waiting”, from the October 2008 issue of Guernicamag.com, was pronounced “powerfully written with not an ounce of fat on it—and deeply moving” by chair of judges, New Statesman chief sub-editor Nana Yaa Mensah at the awards ceremony held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, United Kingdom, yesterday Read the story at: http://assemblyonline.info/?p=1427 |
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