At the award ceremony yesterday, 16th January 2020, the winners of the 2020 NASELS Prize for Literature were announced in both categories. Fiction: Purity by Adeyosola Adeniran – Winner Baptism by Favour Etinosa Ogieriakhi – 1st Runner-up Non Fiction: Beautiful Black Child, Come and Shed Your Black Cloud by Oluchi Miracle Ozuem – Winner Godfatherism… Read more

Esther creatively marries a sympathetic personal voice with an impersonal narrative. It is an important fusion that adapts the ‘frame narratives’ of fiction for reconciling realities that seem far from reach, yet so close. The distance Esther creates to achieve this is well-managed and integral to the essence of non-fiction. With a strong voice, a… Read more