{"id":15081,"date":"2021-04-18T19:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/NLNG\/?page_id=15081"},"modified":"2023-01-22T23:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:52:30","slug":"literary-criticism-past-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thenigeriaprizes.org\/?page_id=15081","title":{"rendered":"Past Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_ic63ou1yws\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_first cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_8rhy5r5zd9\" class=\"cmsmasters_column three_fourth\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div id=\"cmsmasters_heading_7bbuvvonr9\" class=\"cmsmasters_heading_wrap cmsmasters_heading_align_left\">\n\t<h2 class=\"cmsmasters_heading\">Past Winners<\/h2>\n<\/div><div id=\"cmsmasters_heading_gq1gvgzw44\" class=\"cmsmasters_heading_wrap cmsmasters_heading_align_left\">\n\t<h1 class=\"cmsmasters_heading\">The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism<\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"cmsmasters_text\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966; font-size: 28px;\"><strong>Winners at the Glance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_wrap_table\"><table class=\"cmsmasters_table\"><caption><\/caption><thead><tr class=\"cmsmasters_table_row_header\"><th class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Prize_winner_table\">Year<\/div>\n<p><\/th><th class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Prize_winner_table\">Winning Entry<\/div>\n<p><\/th><th class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Prize_winner_table\">Writer\/Critic<\/div>\n<p><\/th><th class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Prize_winner_table\">Profile<\/div>\n<p><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tr><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">2022<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">The black soul is (still) a white man\u2019s artefact? Postcoloniality, post-<br \/>\nFanonism and the tenacity of race(ism) in A. Igoni Barret\u2019s Blackass<br \/>\n\u200bThis uprising will bring out the beast in us: The cultural afterlife of \u2018Beasts of no nations\u2019<br \/>\nWriting about the dead in present tense: Half of a Yellow Sun as a work of postmemory<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">Dr. Sakiru Adebayo<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">2021<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">\u200bSelf-Publishing in the era of military rule in Nigeria, 1985 \u2013 1999<br \/>\nPostcolonial Ogres in Ngugi Wa Thiong\u2019o\u2019s Wizard of the Crow<br \/>\nLand of cemetery: funereal images in the poetry of Musa Idris Okpanachi<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">\u200bUchechukwu Peter Umezurike <\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">2019<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">Reinventing the Primordial: Human Blood Ritual and The Lure of Power in Esiaba Irobi\u2019s Nwokedi<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">Dr Abba A Abba<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"prize_winner_profileurl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenigeriaprize.azurewebsites.net\/profile\/dr-abba-a-abba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">2018<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">Bayonet and Carnage of Tongues: The Contemporary Nigerian Poet Speaking Truth To Power<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">Prof Isidore Diala<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"prize_winner_profileurl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenigeriaprize.azurewebsites.net\/profile\/prof-isidore-diala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">2017<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">No Winner<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">No winner<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">2016<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">No Winner<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">No Winner<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">2015<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">No Winner<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">No winner<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">2014<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">Colonial Mimicry and Post-Colonial Re-membering in Isidore Okpewho\u2019s Call Me by My Rightful Name<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\">Prof Isidore Diala<\/td><td class=\"cmsmasters_table_cell_alignleft\"><\/p>\n<div 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