SUBMISSION OPEN!!!: NGIGA PRIZE FOR HUMOUR WRITING
đź“Ł Announcement: The Ngiga Prize for Humour Writing is now accepting submissions until May 31st. If you have a talent for crafting humour
Ngiga Prize for Humour Writing: Announcing the Judges
The inaugural Ngiga Prize for Humour Writing, which aims to award the sum of N100,000(One hundred thousand Naira) to a playlet that exhibits
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THE NGIGA PRIZE FOR HUMOR WRITING IN HONOR OF LATE ACTOR JOHN OKAFOR
Over three hundred Nollywood movies later, Mr. Ibu’s legacy is etched in laughter. He’s the goofy neighbour, the lovable rogue, the underdog who always finds a way. His characters, often eccentric and full of heart, became mirrors reflecting the realities and humour of everyday Nigerian life.
NgigaReview Maiden Issue: Issue 001 “JAPA”
Issue 001 ‘Japa’ is a collection of “last straws and camel backs”. It is a collection of grief glossed over with the hope of something certain but unknown. It is a wish, a simple prayer for something imperfect but works. Ultimately it is a pause, a brief solemn exclamation before we return to wanderlust.
NGIGAREVIEW CALL FOR SUBMISSION: THE JAPA ISSUE
To japa is to be free, to seek greener pastures, to find your voice, to encounter the
sunrays of hope, to regain your future, to actualise dreams, to have the world as a
canvas, to become, to breathe again—or the opposite of all these.
Ngiga Prize for Humour Writing 2025: Shortlist Announcement and Winner Declaration Date
After an intense round of laughter and literary scrutiny, these three witty and talented writers have made the cut:
NGIGA BOOK OF THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
Suspenseful. Fluid. Poetic. With stylistic panache, this novel takes the reader through different layers of rots and vices in relation to the socio-political and economic realities of twenty-first century Nigerian society. Through
The Radius of Love: Bond, Emotions and Introspections in Esther Eriwayo’s Flower Blooms by Henry Akubuiro
The love poems in Flower Blooms do not paint lewd pictures or echo a Juliet infatuated with her Romeo. Eriwayo, in Flower Blooms, deploys love as a string to mend broken hearts and a rocket that fires us to keep moving to the mountaintop of ambition,