Nigerian poet and editor Adedayo Agarau has been named the winner of the 2025 Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature. The announcement was made at the 19th edition of the awards, held under the theme “Threads of Legacy.”
Founded in 2006, the Future Awards Africa honors Africans between the ages of 18 and 35 for excellence across arts, culture, enterprise, and public service.
Adedayo Agarau, a Cave Canem and Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, is the Editor-in-Chief of Agbowo, a pan-African literary magazine. He was a founding editor at IceFloe Press, Canada as the New International Voices editor and African Chapbook Acquisition manager. Agarau curated and edited Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry.
Other finalists for the 2025 literature prize included Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu, Troy Onyango (Kenya), Chioma Rosemary Onyekaba, and Chukwuebuka Ibeh.
Congratulations, Adedayo Agarau!
Bakare Oluwatobiloba
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