Sola Osofisan
06-10-2009, 05:10 PM
By Nigerians Talk
Today I want to take you into the literary landscape of Nigeria, and not just the regular. In the past few years, it seems that our output in literature has grown in leaps and bounds even in the face of poverty and other hindrances. A Nigerian has now won the Booker - Ben Okri, the Orange - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (who also got the MacArthur Genius Grant), and the Man Booker International Prize - Chinua Achebe for his lifetime achievements. Need I forget Wole Soyinka who won the first Nobel Prize for Literature in Africa.
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Today I want to take you into the literary landscape of Nigeria, and not just the regular. In the past few years, it seems that our output in literature has grown in leaps and bounds even in the face of poverty and other hindrances. A Nigerian has now won the Booker - Ben Okri, the Orange - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (who also got the MacArthur Genius Grant), and the Man Booker International Prize - Chinua Achebe for his lifetime achievements. Need I forget Wole Soyinka who won the first Nobel Prize for Literature in Africa.
More (http://nigerianstalk.org/?p=166)