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Idada’s Boom Boom edged out Mysteries at Ebenezer’s Lodge by Dunni Olatunde and The Great Walls of Benin by O.T. Begho to clinch the prize. The book had competed against 173 books submitted for the competition in March 2019.

Also at the event, Professor Meihong Wang and Dr. Mathew Aneke were awarded $100,000 as joint-winners of The Nigeria Prize for Science for Year 2019. Wang and Aneke were announced as winners in September 2019 by the prize’s Advisory Board for their work on Carbon Capture, Carbon Utilization, and Biomass Gasification and Energy Storage for Power Generation.

After two years in which no African authors were chosen for the longlist, this year two Nigerian authors were selected for the 13-book longlist in July: Oyinkan Braithwaite, for My Sister, The Serial Killer, and Chigozie Obioma, for An Orchestra of Minorities, as was Bernardine Evaristo, whose work explores the African diaspora and her Nigerian heritage.

Chair of Judges, Peter Florence, said of the shortlist: “Like all great literature, these books teem with life, with a profound and celebratory humanity.”For three weeks now, the nominees have been engaged in a series of reading and chat sessions about their themes and writing process. As David Sexton, a Booker Prize judge in 2005, noted, at least, the presence of four women on both the shortlist and the judging panel meant that: “The patriarchal tyranny so alarmingly envisaged by Atwood is faltering here at least!” It was a particularly good week for Atwood, who was also named on the shortlist for Canada’s pre-eminent literary award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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