Ikeogu Oke Awarded the 2017 NLNG Prize for His Poetry Collection The Heresiad

Ikeogu Oke has been awarded the 2017 NLNG Prize for his poetry collection, The Heresiad. Alongside him on the shortlist were Tanure Ojaide, for Songs of Myself: Quartet, and Ogaga Ifowodo, for A Good Mourning. The longlist had eleven poets.​ At $100,000, the NLNG Prize for Literature is the richest in Africa, and honours a published book […]