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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Sinach0191(m): 2:00pm On May 21, 2019
Make us proud guys

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Emperor002: 2:01pm On May 21, 2019
igbo amaka proudly an igbo boy

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Daewang: 2:07pm On May 21, 2019
Igbo Amaka.

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by SaturnNick(m): 2:07pm On May 21, 2019
Igbo Amaka

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by BeautifulMind2: 2:07pm On May 21, 2019
Guestlander:



An actual winner.

Why are these Afonjas always there first?
Best of luck

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Ochendo1: 2:08pm On May 21, 2019
Na dem oh!
Why always dem chai!

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by nicepoker101(m): 2:10pm On May 21, 2019
uduak2016:
Igbos just full everywhere and success news. Afonja adikwa Ndu?
uduak an Akwa Ibom name. You are now trailing on a bigot's path.
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Frankdoz29: 2:11pm On May 21, 2019
Igbo amaka!!!! We will continue to win.
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Guestlander: 2:12pm On May 21, 2019
BeautifulMind2:

Best of luck

I said first. You want to argue with that?

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by eagleeye2: 2:14pm On May 21, 2019
when you read, A Nigerian, two Nigerians, a group of Nigerians, just know they are talking about those they hate to love. Those they admire, but would rather swallow their tongues before they admit to it.
Those who they don't wish to be associated with, but will never allow them to be on their own.
Give it up for the Never say never tribe.
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by eagleeye2: 2:17pm On May 21, 2019
Kriely:
This won’t hit hard!

But if 2 Nigerians rob a kiosk now, the whole world will hear it. undecided
No. Not two Nigerians. They will simply say Igbo boys or name and shame them like Abike did.
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Thebwoy: 2:19pm On May 21, 2019
Their nomination will not add any shi shi to our economy.
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by BeautifulMind2: 2:24pm On May 21, 2019
Guestlander:


I said first. You want to argue with that?
Yet to see new generation Yoruba man or woman that will beat Adichie's records grin Chimamanda Adichie most influential Africa

Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by BeautifulMind2: 2:26pm On May 21, 2019
Guestlander:


I said first. You want to argue with that?

Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Nobody: 2:27pm On May 21, 2019
afonjas and low self esteem jumping on every igbo thread always trying to compete with igbos wey pass dem better go and compete with almajiri ur masters...igbo man no be your mate
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Guestlander: 2:28pm On May 21, 2019
BeautifulMind2:

Yet to see new generation Yoruba man or woman that will beat records grin Chimamanda Adichie most influential Africa

Nobel prize is such a high bar to scale. Still savoring it, but as you can see, we are always reaching for new heights.

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Guestlander: 2:29pm On May 21, 2019
DREAMZZZ:
afonjas and low self esteem jumping on every igbo thread always trying to compete with igbos wey pass dem better go and compete with almajiri ur masters...igbo man no be your mate

Common, there are 4 Yoruba winners on the list. Two Ibo nominations and everywhere is full of Igbo amaka!
Why are these afonjas so damn smart?

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by BeautifulMind2: 2:30pm On May 21, 2019
Guestlander:


Nobel prize is such a high bar to scale. Still savoring it, but as you can see, we are always reaching for new heights.
Yet to see new generation Yoruba grin grin
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by BeautifulMind2: 2:37pm On May 21, 2019
Guestlander:


Common, there are 4 Yoruba winners on the list. Two Ibo nominations are everywhere is full of Igbo amaka!
Why are these afonjas so damn smart?
Igbos dominate Nigeria Prize for Literature, Igbo man was first to win the prize

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by OlawaleSmarter0(m): 2:41pm On May 21, 2019
BeautifulMind2:

Yet to see new generation Yoruba grin grin


Yoruba are in competition with no one except ourselves

This Generation of Yoruba are Making waves without any noise and chest beating, because we are greater than that. Only people that haven't experience greatnest act like the way you guys does

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tribuneonlineng.com/193753/amp/

https://brittlepaper.com/2019/03/the-2019-sillerman-first-book-prize-for-african-poets-goes-to-nigerias-gbenga-adeoba/

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by BeautifulMind2: 3:07pm On May 21, 2019
OlawaleSmarter0:



Yoruba are in competition with no one except ourselves

This Generation of Yoruba are Making waves without any noise and chest beating, because we are greater than that. Only people that haven't experience greatnest act like the way you guys does

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tribuneonlineng.com/193753/amp/

https://brittlepaper.com/2019/03/the-2019-sillerman-first-book-prize-for-african-poets-goes-to-nigerias-gbenga-adeoba/
And Igbos are leading you in your domain cheesy grin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Prize_for_Literature
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by BeautifulMind2: 3:14pm On May 21, 2019
OlawaleSmarter0:



Yoruba are in competition with no one except ourselves

This Generation of Yoruba are Making waves without any noise and chest beating, because we are greater than that. Only people that haven't experience greatnest act like the way you guys does

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tribuneonlineng.com/193753/amp/

https://brittlepaper.com/2019/03/the-2019-sillerman-first-book-prize-for-african-poets-goes-to-nigerias-gbenga-adeoba/
No Yoruba man or woman dead or alive can make waves more than than Chimamanda

Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by Guestlander: 3:20pm On May 21, 2019
BeautifulMind2:

No Yoruba man or woman dead or alive can make waves more than than Chimamanda

Yeah, even Chimamanda will slap you across the face for saying this.

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by mercyville: 3:39pm On May 21, 2019
Earthquake3:
LazyGold where you @?


.

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by BeautifulMind2: 3:42pm On May 21, 2019
Guestlander:


Yeah, even Chimamanda will slap you across the face for saying this.
Mention one

Another create writer

Chika Unigwe was born in 1974 , author who writes in English and Dutch. In April 2014 she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Previously based in Belgium, she now lives in the United States. She is the sixth of seven children. She attended Secondary school at Federal Government Girls' college in Abuja and obtained a BA in English in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1995. In 1996, Chika earned an MA in English from the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL).[3] She has a Ph.D in Literature (2004) from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Her debut novel, De Feniks, was published in 2005 by Meulenhoff and Manteau (of Amsterdam and Antwerp, respectively) and was shortlisted for the Vrouw en Kultuur debuutprijs for the best first novel by a female writer. She is also the author of two children's books published by Macmillan, London.

She has published short fiction in several anthologies, journals and magazines, including Wasafiri (University of London), Moving Worlds (University of Leeds), Per Contra, Voices of the University of Wisconsin and Okike of the University of Nigeria.

She won the 2003 BBC Short Story Competition and a Commonwealth Short Story Competition award. In 2004, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. In the same year, her short story made the top 10 of the Million Writers Award for best online fiction. In 2005, she won third prize in the Equiano Fiction Contest.

Her first novel, De Feniks, was published in Dutch in September 2005 and is the first book of fiction written by a Flemish author of African origin. Her second novel, Fata Morgana, was published in Dutch in 2008 and subsequently released in English. Entitled On Black Sisters' Street, Unigwe's novel is about African prostitutes living and working in Belgium, and was published to acclaim in London in 2009 by Jonathan Cape. On Black Sisters' Street won the 2012 Nigeria Prize for Literature; valued at $100,000 it is Africa's largest literary prize. Also in 2012, Zukiswa Wanner in The Guardian rated her as one of the "top five African writers". Still in 2012, she floored Olushola Olugbesan's Only A Canvass and Ngozi Achebe's Onaedo: The Blacksmith's Daughter to clinch the coveted $100,000 Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, becoming the second Diaspora writer to win the prize.[8]

Unigwe sits on the Board of Trustees of pan-African literary initiative Writivism, and set up the Awele Creative Trust in Nigeria to support young writers. In April 2014, she was selected for the Festival's Africa39 list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in Africa.

In autumn 2014 the University of Tübingen welcomed Unigwe and her fellow authors Taiye Selasi, Priya Basil and Nii Ayikwei Parkes to the year's Writers' Lectureship, all of them authors representing what Selasi calls Afropolitan literature.

In 2014, Unigwe published Black Messiah, a novel about Olaudah Equiano.

In 2016, Unigwe was appointed as the Bonderman Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University in Rhode Island.[11]

In September 2016, Unigwe's novel Night Dancer (published in 2012) was shortlisted for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature;[12] the winner was subsequently announced as Abubakar Adam Ibrahim.[13]

Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by kokomilala(m): 4:24pm On May 21, 2019
Unnecessary tribal jingoism. Does this belittle the pioneering achievements of other tribes?
Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by OlawaleSmarter0(m): 6:03pm On May 21, 2019
BeautifulMind2:

No Yoruba man or woman dead or alive can make waves more than than Chimamanda

Yoruba have already won a Nobel prize and a pullitizer two of the highest prize in the literal World, so we have already make waves more than your beloved Chimamanda Adichie. We are in competition with no one

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Re: Lesley Arimah And Tochukwu Okafor Make 2019 Cain Prize Shortlist by OlawaleSmarter0(m): 6:29pm On May 21, 2019
BeautifulMind2:

And Igbos are leading you in your domain cheesy grin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Prize_for_Literature

Don't be deluded my friend

Yoruba have won two of the greatest Award and prize in the literal World

The Nobel Prize

The Pullitizer prize, and Yoruba were the first Africans to won it

Goodluck trying to win those two greatest prize in the literal World. Yoruba are in competition with no one except ourselves

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