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Nigeria Prize for Literature ないじぇりあぶんがくしょう

Edition 11 (2014)

FictionPoetryDramaChildren's literature

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Sam Ukala さむ・うから Winner

A play about the 1906 uprising in the Owa Kingdom. It uses the cadence of oral literature to dramatize resistance to colonial rule and the memory of a community.

Oral tradition turns a history of resistance into drama.

102 pages
playoral literaturecolonialismhistorical drama