Tope Folarin has been adjudged winner for the Caine Prize for African writing. Folarin who is based in the United States of America received the £10,000 ($15,000) prize for his short story, Miracle. The work of fiction was set in an evangelical Nigerian church in the US state of Texas.
The judges described it as a “delightful and beautifully paced narrative”.
Mr Folarin was among five writers short-listed for the prize, regarded as Africa’s leading literary award. Three other Nigerians also made the shortlist and these are Elnathan John for Bayan Layi, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim for The Whispering Trees and Chinelo Okparanta for America.
A Sierra Leonean, Pede Hollist, was the only non-Nigerian short-listed for his short story Foreign Aid.
