Lola Akande Explained

Birth Name:Lola Akande
Birth Date:3 October 1965
Birth Place:Oke-Ode, Ifelodun, Kwara, Nigeria)
Period:1986–present
Awards:

Association Of Nigerian Authors Prize for Short Story 2022

Alma Mater:
Notablework:What It Takes, The Truth about Sadia

Lola Akande (born 3 October 1965) is a Nigerian academic and fiction writer. She has published three novels and a collection of short stories including the award winning _What It Takes_ and her latest novel, __The Truth about Sadia_ which is endorsed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)

Life and career

Akande was born on 3 October 1965 in Kwara state, Nigeria. She teaches African literature in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos.[1] [2] Her first novel, In Our Place, was published in 2012 by Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Limited,[2] which was subsequently followed by What It Takes, which was published in 2016.[2] In 2020, she published a collection of short stories [1] [3] which won the ANA award for Short Story, in 2022.

Published works

Lola Akande has published four works of fiction, a monograph and several academic publications.[4]

Novels

Short stories

Monograph

Akande, Lola. (2019) The City in the African Novel - A Thematic Rendering of Urban Spaces. Lagos: Tunmike Pages

Awards

Her work, What It Takes in 2017 earned her the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Prose Fiction.[6]

Her collection of Short Stories, Suitors Are Scarce in Lagos won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Short Story 2022.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lola Akande's new book explores complexity of Lagos. Prisca. Sam-Duru. 24 April 2020. 18 October 2022. Vanguard.
  2. Web site: Lola Akande's What It Takes beams searchlight on universities teachers. Florence. Utor. 4 December 2016. 18 October 2022. The Guardian.
  3. Web site: Lagos Blues. 18 April 2020. Henry. Akubuiro. 18 October 2022. The Sun.
  4. Web site: Akande . Lola . Lola Akande - Google Scholar Citations . Google Scholar . Google Scholar . 1 October 2019.
  5. News: Evelyn . Osagie . Don presents second novel . 1 October 2019 . The Nation . The Nation . 26 December 2016.
  6. News: Amoo . Abdussalam . UNILAG VC congratulates Lola Akande for winning 2017 ANA Prize . 1 October 2019 . EduCeleb . EduCeleb.com . 20 May 2018.