TOYOTA PARTNERS WITH LUMINAR FOUNDATION ON WOLE SOYINKA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN AFRICA

Toyota (Nigeria) Limited recently partnered with The Lumina Foundation the organizers of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa an annual event instituted to celebrate literary excellence personified by the Kongi of Africa Professor Wole Soyinka the renown Professor of Literature and First African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

According to the organizers the event aims to identify, reward and ultimately promote intellectual   excellence, encourage learning and support scholarship.

In realization of the nexus between the aim of the Foundation expressed through the intent and content of the event and the corporate objective of Toyota (Nigeria) Limited as an organization  which has consistently been in the vanguard of entrenching quality education through socio-moral reawakening in Nigeria that the company, we decided to partner with the Foundation.

It was a night of glitz, colour and pomp characterized by display of creativity and literary intellectualism. In attendance was the symbol of what can best be described as the African version of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the literary icon himself, Professor Wole Soyinka as well as other dignitaries from different walks of life. They were all treated to cultural display all rich in the Soyinka’s creative colouration and socio-cultural idealism.

The high point of the night was the presentation of the three shortlisted literary efforts  amongst over three hundred entries across Africa;  Dr Wale Okediran’ s Tenants of the House, ( Nigeria) Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut ( South Africa ) and Adaobi Tricia’s I Do Not Come to You by Chance ( Nigeria) with Dr Wale Okediran and Kopano Matlwa emerging joint winners.