My Cousin Sammy is the children’s literature that won the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2007 for Prof Adimora-Ezeigbo. She won the prize with Mrs Mabel Segun’s Reader’s Theatre.
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Prof Ahmed Yerima
In 2006, Prof Ahmed Yerima’s stunning book on the militancy situation in The Niger Delta entitled Hard Ground beat other drama books to win the Nigeria Prize for Literature. Yerima, a respected Nigerian academic, dramatist and theatre director...
Prof Ezenwa Ohaeto
With his poetry book, Chants of the Minstrel, Ezenwa Ohaeto, a Professor of English and lecturer at English department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, became the first co-winner of the coveted $20,000 The Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2005.
Gabriel Okara
Gabriel Okara was one of the greatest Nigerian poets, read widely even during the precolonial days. Born in 1921 at Bumoundi in Bayelsa State, Nigeria,
Dr. Abba A. Abba
Dr Abba A. Abba is a scholar, academic and a creative writer. A Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Dr Abba won the Nigeria Prize for Literary criticism in 2019.
Prof Isidore Diala
Prof Isidore Diala is a lecturer in African Literature at Imo State University, Owerri. He was an Alexander Humboldt research fellow at Germany.
Dr Mathew Aneke
Dr. Mathew Aneke is a Chemical and Biological Engineer with the University of Sheffield. He is a fellow of UK Higher Education Academy and Chartered Engineer with the UK Energy Institute.
Prof Meihong Wang
Prof Meihong Wang is a Professor of Energy system and lectures at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK.
Dr Peter Ngene
Dr Peter Ngene is Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at the Debye Institute of Nanomaterials Science at the Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Prof Ikeoluwa Ajayi
Prof Ikeoluwa Ajayi is a lecturer at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. He was one of the three authors whose work joined other two works to clinched the Science prize after seven years that the prize returned no winner verdict.