The Idumaese Alao Foundation is glad to present the 2024 IDUMAESE ALAO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE LONGLIST from a pool of over 100 entries:
- “Recompense” – Ajise Vincent
- “A Kind of Brotherhood” – Igbokwe Roseline
- “M” – Taiwo Hassan
- “An Autopsy of Dying in Which a Miracle Lives in a Famished Tumour” – Chinemerem Prince Nwankwo
- “All the Things I Love, the Sands Have Covered with Memory” – Abdulrazaq Salihu
- “Loss, Again” – Samuel A. Adeyemi
- “Because I Do Not Walk The Dead, The Dead Walks Me” – Aliyu Umar Muhammad
- “Cardio/Post-examination” – Chiwenite Onyekwelu
- “Countdown to Exitus” – Eliongema Udofia
- “Body Elixir, Blood Warrior” – Timi Sanni
- “Terminal Maladies” – Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
- “You” – Ayiyi Joel
- “This is the Year 2006” – Damilola Omotoyibo
- “On Being Asked About the War in My Body” – Mubarak Said
- “Ellipses” – Chinecherem Enujioke
- “A War in My Mother’s Body” – Kelvin Ofeimu
Congratulations to the longlisted poets!
