Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde has won the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story Bombay's Republic.
His story follows a Nigeria soldier fighting in Burma campaign of World War II and returning home as a veteran with a strong sense of new opportunities.
Speaking at the celebratory dinner in Oxford on Monday evening, Bernardine Evaristo, the chair of the judges, described Babatunde's work as "ambitious, darkly humorous and in soaring, scorching prose exposes the exploitative nature of the colonial project and the psychology of Independence."
An upbringing of discovery
Rotimi Babatunde's fiction and poems have been published in Africa, Europe and America. He is a winner of the Meridian Tragic Love Story Competition and was awarded the Cyprian Ekwensi Prize for Short Stories by the Abuja Writers Forum.
Discovering an unknown family
Recently, a number of Nigeria writers (mostly young graduates and undergraduates) are making waves in world history of literature. Names like Chibundu Onuzo, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila and a host of others are getting more and more established in the world's record of literature.
See http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/09/21/nigerian.authors/index.html
Reacting to the sucess of young Nigerians in literary works, Lizzy Attree, expert in African literature and consultant to the Caine Prize for African Literature, told CNN:
"Nigeria has a rich literary tradition and at certain points it has come particularly to the world's attention".
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/03/world/africa/caine-prize/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2
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