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Adekunle Adebajo and Farai Shawn Matiashe have emerged joint winners of the 2023 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling.
Adekunle Adebajo, a Nigerian journalist emerged winner with his investigation into the lives of kidnapped schoolgirls now in university in Nigeria and Farai Shawn Matiashe, a Zimbabwean journalist emerged winner for his chronicling of how rising temperatures in Zimbabwe are impacting an all-women fishing cooperative.
Professor Saheed Aderinto, a professor of History and African Diaspora Studies has emerged as one of the winners of the 2023 Dan David Prize.
The Dan David Prize is a major international award that recognises and supports outstanding contributions to the study of history and other disciplines that shed light on the human past.
It is considered to be the “largest history prize in the world”.
The 2023 winners were announced on February 28, 2023.
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Nigeria has emerged winner of the 2023 Surajkund International Arts and Crafts Festival in India.
The two-week competition is the largest arts and culture festival in the world.
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Oloyede Michael Taiwo’s collection of poems, “Lagos Is Killing Me”, has emerged winner of the 2023 Professor Akachi Ezeigbo Prize for Literature in Poetry.
Six (6) teams have emerged winners in the 2022 Hostwriter Story Prize.
Grants of €1,000 is awarded to each of the winners of the 2022 Story Prize.
Most of the Story Prize winners used Hostwriter in some way to develop and realise their stories. All stories have been a co-authored collaboration between journalists worldwide.
Nike Adebowale-Tambe, Ezedimbu Ogom and Blessing Enebeli have emerged winners of the third edition of the Prevent Epidemics Journalism Award (PEJA).
The annual award is organised by Nigeria Health Watch, a non-profit health communication and advocacy organisation that seeks to advocate better health for Nigerians.
Dapo Olorunyomi has joined Poynter Institute’s Media Transformation Challenge fellowship as its first African fellow on January 9, 2022.
The Media Transformation Challenge (MTC) Programme is a yearlong fellowship and leadership programme designed for senior news executives.
Mr. Olorunyomi, publisher of Premium Times is one of the 27 senior executives drawn from different organisations across the globe who made the 2023 cohort.