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The African Studies Centre (Dutch: Afrika-Studiecentrum) is a scientific institute in the Netherlands that undertakes social-science research on Africa with the aim of promoting a better understanding of historical, current and future social developments in Sub-Saharan Africa. The centre is an interfaculty institute of Leiden University.
Joint winner of 2007 NLNG (The Nigeria Prize for Literature) in the Children Category with children's novel My Cousin Sammy – 2007. Honoured with Long & Distinguished Service Award of the University of Lagos on 19 April 2007. Fire from the Holy Mountain (children's novel) won the ANA/Atiku Abubakar Children's Literature Prize – 2008.
Mohammed Bagayogo (1523–1593), eminent scholar from Timbuktu, Mali. Cheick Modibo Diarra (1952–), Malian-born aerospace engineer who contributed to several NASA missions such as Mars Path Finder, the Galileo spacecraft, and the Mars Observer. Ahmad Baba (1556–1627), medieval West African writer, scholar, and political provocateur.
The Nigeria Prize for Literature was established in 2004 and is worth USD100,000 in Prize money. The Prize is considered by literary critics as the biggest and most prestigious in Africa and has been commended for helping discover literary talent [1] although some emphasize that more needs to be done to help the African writer. [2]
Professor Jerry Agada (born Jerry Anthony Agada // ⓘ, 11 November 1952 – 22 December 2020) was a Nigerian educationist, scholar, author, hairman [of [Benue State]] Civil Service Commission, former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), the first Fellow of the Association of Nigerian Authors in Central Nigeria, the vice-chairman of Fidei Polytechnic, Gboko and former ...
Scholar, writer, political activist Farid Esack (born 1955 in Wynberg, Cape Town ) is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid , his appointment by Nelson Mandela as a gender equity commissioner, and his work for inter-religious dialogue.
Nigeria Prize for Literature is a Nigerian literary award given annually since 2004 to honor literary erudition by Nigerian authors. The award rotates among four genres; fiction, poetry, drama and children's literature, repeating the cycle every four years.
Soji Cole is a Nigerian academic, playwright and author. He is the 2018 recipient of the Nigeria Prize for Literature. [1] His research areas are on drama therapy, trauma studies and cross-cultural performance research.