Tanure Ojaide, Ogaga Ifowodo and Ikeogu Oke Shortlisted for the 2017 NLNG Prize

The 2017 Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Prize for Literature has unveiled its shortlist, and it comprises three poetry collections: Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself: Quartet, Ogaga Ifowodo’s A Good Mourning, and Ikeogu​​ Oke​’s The Heresiad.​​ The longlist had eleven poets.​ At $100,000, the NLNG Prize for Literature is the richest in Africa, and honours a published […]