Akada Youngsters's E book Pageant, based by youngsters's ebook writer Olubunmi Aboderin-Talabi, has been named Brittle Paper African Literary Platform of the 12 months 2023.
Aboderin-Talabi, who organized the primary version of the pageant in 2019, is the Director of PUNCH Nigeria Restricted and an writer.
That is simply as a Ghanaian author and cultural curator, Sylvia Arthur, was named the winner of the 2023 Brittle Paper African Literary Particular person of the 12 months.
The awards acknowledge people who’ve achieved excellent work in selling African literary tradition and business within the given yr.
In response to a press release on the organizer's Instagram web page, different winners of the ninth version of the awards embody South African digital content material creator Nokukhanya Ntsaluba, who gained the Social Media Influencer of the 12 months, and Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure who the Writer gained. of the 12 months award.
Commenting on the winners, the awards organiser, Brittle Paper, stated these acknowledged are people who’ve achieved excellent work in advancing African literary tradition and business by 2023.
“We’re very happy with everybody on the checklist. All of them performed their half and contributed to creating this yr an excellent success for the tradition,” the organizer stated.
The Aboderin-Talabi E book Pageant gained the 2023 Literary Platform of the 12 months for “championing youngsters's literature in Nigeria and selling a protected and provoking house for kids to discover books and concepts,” in response to the organizer.
The organizer added: “The pageant was based by Olubunmi Aboderin Talabi, a youngsters's ebook writer and influential determine within the Nigerian publishing business. The pageant is the primary and largest Nigerian ebook pageant solely for kids.
“Many people know Talabi as a author of kids's books, however she has been energetic within the Nigerian publishing world and in different roles for for much longer.
“She is at present the President of the Affiliation of Youngsters's Authors and Illustrators of Nigeria. Though her skilled background is in enterprise management, her true ardour is writing for kids, with twelve revealed books.
“With a profession spanning 29 years within the publishing business, primarily in newspaper publishing, she additionally holds an honorary doctorate in Media and Communications and serves on the board of The PUNCH, one in all Nigeria's high newspapers.
“She is deeply dedicated to bettering literacy and guaranteeing youngsters have higher entry to books, particularly to learn for pleasure.”
Commenting on the literary platform award gained by Talabi's ACBF, Editor, Brittle Paper, Prof. Ainehi Edoro, stated the ACBF was altering Nigerian literary tradition.
“There isn’t any doubt that ACBF is reworking Nigerian literary tradition in a approach that displays the broader progress we’re witnessing in African literature globally.
“It permits infrastructural influence within the Nigerian literary house by signaling the opportunity of a market and business round youngsters's books,” Edoro stated.
On his half, the writer of Masobe Books, Othuke Ominiabohs, stated on the Akada Youngsters's E book Pageant that the way forward for African literature is promising.
Ominiabohs stated: “Due to Talabi and the ACBF, the way forward for literature and the continent as an entire is a lot brighter: as a result of a toddler who reads is an grownup who leads.”
The organizer additionally defined that Arthur gained the African Literary Particular person of the 12 months award “in recognition of her excellent contributions to selling the visibility of African and African diaspora literature on Instagram and different social media platforms”.
The organizer additionally stated Ntsaluba gained the Social Media Influencer of the 12 months “in recognition of her excellent contributions to selling the visibility of African and African diaspora literature on Instagram and different social media platforms”.
Vazhure gained the Writer of the 12 months 2023 for 'making house for literature within the Shona language, answering the nice Ngugi wa Thiongo's name that we should take critically the 'claims of our language on us'.
