Nigeria Prize for Literature ないじぇりあぶんがくしょう
Edition 11 (2014)
FictionPoetryDramaChildren's literature
Winners
1 peopleA 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