Eze, Ifowodo, and Oburumu Make Final Three for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature 2026
The Nigeria Prize for Literature has narrowed its 2026 poetry field down to a shortlist of three: James Ngwu Eze’s Unbind Me Now, Ogaga Ifowodo’s Why Does God Need a Gun?, and Tares Oburumu’s Flora’s Love Colony. The three collections were selected from an initial pool of 223 entries, first cut down to a longlist […]
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The Nigeria Prize for Literature has narrowed its 2026 poetry field down to a shortlist of three: James Ngwu Eze’s Unbind Me Now, Ogaga Ifowodo’s Why Does God Need a Gun?, and Tares Oburumu’s Flora’s Love Colony. The three collections were selected from an initial pool of 223 entries, first cut down to a longlist […]
