When Oyin Olugbile’s debut novel Sanya won the 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature — Africa’s most prestigious literary award — she summed up the moment with quiet power:
“This prize declares that our stories are not footnotes; they are the main text.”
Her £100,000 victory was b
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