Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, a former lecturer at Bayero University Kano.
The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, said all forms of race-related vices and injustices had no place in modern history given the ignoble experiences of Africans and people of African descent in the past.
He saluted the bold African voices using the arts, music, literature, and sports to stress that the “world is better when we treat one another with dignity and respect”.
In winning the prize, the Swedish Academy highlighted the Tanzanian novelist’s ‘uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effect of colonialism and the fate of the refugees in the gulf between cultures and continents’.