I have read the first two chapters of the winning Novel and it was different. Ngozis writing style takes you right into the soul of her characters. She creates a strong amount of empathy and makes you feel what they feel. The strong emotional experience will surely keep anyone reading till the very end.
We had the generation of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Mabel Segun and Flora Nwapa. Ben Okri was a burst of fresh air when it seemed as if we had a stalement in the industry.
But now we are coming out again in full force. Lest we run the risk of undervaluing what we have, Ill take some time to showcase, the new generation of Nigerian writers. Let us be proud of what we have and take some time to buy their books and read them.
Helon Habila
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He grew up in the town of Gombe in northern Nigeria just at the end of the civil war. He studied English and literature at the University of Jos. While working as an assistant lecturer in English at Federal Polytechnic in Bauchi, he wrote a biography of the chief of his hometown, which was published by Tafawa Balewa Press in 1997.
In 1998 he moved to Lagos, where he was the arts editor at the Vanguard paper. He continued to work on his poems and short stories, and in 2000 won two of the country's biggest awardsthe Musical Society of Nigeria (MuSon) Poetry Festival Prize for his poem "Another Age" and the Liberty Bank Prize for his short story "The Butterfly and the Artist."
