A Nigerian poet, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, is among 2020 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets finalists.
Agbaakin was selected for his manuscript, The Root of the Word Babble is Babel.
While the prize was won by a Zambian-born poet, Cheswayo Mphanza, for The Rinehart Frames, the other finalist was a Moroccan, El Habib Louai, for Rotten Wounds Embalmed with Tar.
Cheswayo Mphanza