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

Edition 15 (2018)

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Soji Cole そじ・こおる Winner

Embers is a play set in an internally displaced persons camp in northern Nigeria, where women live in the aftermath of Boko Haram violence. Through the conversations of young girls and the older woman Talatu, it examines war, exploitation, corruption around aid, and the fragile possibility of healing through speech.

Like embers that refuse to die, memories of violence smolder within the camp's daily life.

101 pages
dramainternally displaced personsBoko Haramwomen's voicestrauma