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Dapo Olorunyomi has been honored alongside four others with the 2020 International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Dapo Olorunyomi is the co-founder, CEO, and publisher of the Nigerian newspaper Premium Times, which today is one of the most trusted newspapers in Nigeria and a standard for African investigative journalism.

Dapo Olorunyomi has dedicated his life to holding the powerful to account and is a fierce advocate for press freedom.

Dapo Olorunyomi worked as an editor at other Nigerian media outlets, including PM News, which he helped co-found; Radio Nigeria; The African Guardian magazine; and NEXT newspapers. In 2005, he founded the Lagos-based Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, named after Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature and dedicated to exposing corruption and human rights abuses. He also co-founded the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, a partner organization to the newspaper, which has its own press freedom tracker.

Dapo Olorunyomi serves on the advisory boards of nonprofit organizations Africa Check and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism.

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Wana Udobang has been selected to participate in the 54th International Writing Programme (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, courtesy of the United States Department of State.

Over the course of 11 weeks, Wana Udobang will join 29 other accomplished writers from across the globe in the world’s oldest and largest multinational writing residency. She and the other participants will give readings and lectures that share their work and cultures, collaborate with artists from other genres and art forms, and travel to interact with audiences and literary communities across the United States of America.

In addition, the residency will provide the writers a one-of-a-kind inter-cultural opportunity to forge productive relationships with colleagues and translators, and take part in the vibrant social and academic life of the University of Iowa as well as the larger American literary scene.

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Vincent Kolo, has won the $50,000 Nefertiti grand prize for creativity during a virtual festival as part of the African Union & Afrochampions inaugural Africa Integration Day Creative Challenge celebration.

Vincent Kolo won the visual art category with his artwork ‘The Cords of Yesterday’.

Sponsored by Afreximbank and Commercial International Bank, the Grand Prize was awarded for work that passionately highlights the contemporary quest for Africa to learn from its past, take charge of its present and build its own unique vision of a united, prosperous, future. Its thematic essence is: the Africa we Want, the AU’s Agenda 2063 grand slogan.

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Victor Ehikhamenor has been named as the Neon Museum’s 2020 National Artist in Residence in the United States of America.

Mr. Victor Ehikhamenor was selected from a pool of 110 applicants.

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Pete Edochie has been honoured with the African Film Legend award at the 2020 The African Film Festival (TAFF) for his role in the development of the film industry in Africa.

The African Film Festival (TAFF), which held from June 2, through June 6, 2020, in Dallas, United States of America, was screened live online.

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Soyombo Fisayo has received an honorable mention in the 2020 Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism.

Soyombo Fisayo is an investigative journalist and former Editor of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR).

Announcing winners of the award in Washington, D.C. on 2nd of June 2020, the World Justice Project (WJP) listed Soyombo among three individual journalists and three reporting teams “in recognition of their extraordinary reporting on rule of law issues”.

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Chigozie Obioma has won the 2020 Internationaler Literaturpreis award by Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Germany.

The Nigerian writer and author won the award through the German translation of his second novel, titled: An Orchestra of Minorities.

His co-winner is Haitian writer James Noel.

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