Past Winners
Past Winners
The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism
Winners at the Glance
|
Year
|
Winning Entry
|
Writer/Critic
|
Profile
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The black soul is (still) a white man’s artefact? Postcoloniality, post- Fanonism and the tenacity of race(ism) in A. Igoni Barret’s Blackass This uprising will bring out the beast in us: The cultural afterlife of ‘Beasts of no nations’ Writing about the dead in present tense: Half of a Yellow Sun as a work of postmemory | Dr. Sakiru Adebayo | |
| 2021 | Self-Publishing in the era of military rule in Nigeria, 1985 – 1999 Postcolonial Ogres in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow Land of cemetery: funereal images in the poetry of Musa Idris Okpanachi | Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike | |
| 2019 | Reinventing the Primordial: Human Blood Ritual and The Lure of Power in Esiaba Irobi’s Nwokedi | Dr Abba A Abba | |
| 2018 | Bayonet and Carnage of Tongues: The Contemporary Nigerian Poet Speaking Truth To Power | Prof Isidore Diala | |
| 2017 | No Winner | No winner | |
| 2016 | No Winner | No Winner | |
| 2015 | No Winner | No winner | |
| 2014 | Colonial Mimicry and Post-Colonial Re-membering in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me by My Rightful Name | Prof Isidore Diala | |
| 2013 | No winner | No winner | |
| 2012 | No winner | No winner |