The Lumina Foundation, the Lagos-based leading literary organisation and administrators of The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, has chosen Accra as the venue for the next awards ceremony in 2014.
Toward this end, the Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA) has been invited by the Foundation as a partner in the event, and to assist in enhancing awareness of the Prize throughout the continent.
The Prize, which is intended to recognize and encourage literary excellence, has a monetary value of US$20,000 for the winner.
This was disclosed when the CEO of the Foundation, Dr. Ogochukwu Promise, and the Foundation’s Advisory Chairman, Ivor Agyeman-Duah, called on the Secretary-General of PAWA, Prof. Atukwei Okai, in Accra.
The award ceremony in Accra, Dr. Promise revealed, will be part of a global celebration of the works of nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who will be 80 years old in 2014.
It will include a week of Theatre Arts in Accra, institutional colloquiums in Europe and America, a congregation of world leaders and Nobel Laureates, as well as the publication of an anthology of tributes.
Dr. Promise said since the institution of the Award in 2005, the Foundation has seen entries jump from 87 to 415 in 2010 from 26 African countries.
The 2012 Awards Ceremony, which took place in Lagos, had as its guest speaker former Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor, supported by over a 1,000 dignitaries within and outside of Nigeria. A South African journalist, Sifiso Mzobe, won this year’s award with his book Young Blood.
PAWA Secretary-General, Prof. Atukwei Okai on his par, congratulated the Foundation for its work, especially in the rural mobile library sector which has increased access to reading and great collaboration between the Foundation and educational institutions in Nigeria -- adding that the Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA) will work to ensure the success of this worthy event.
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