SEVHAGE author, Abuchi Modilim, has been longlisted for the NLNG’s $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature with his book, The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe. The announcement was made yesterday by Professor Akachi Ezeigbo, chair of the Advisory Board of the prize, at a press conference yesterday.

It is a completely crazy world that Abuchi Modilim throws up in his play, The Brigadiers of the Mad Tribe. Like in the plays of the iconic Swedish playwright, August Strindberg, where anything can happen, strange things occur when the shady Phoenix Black Science Organisation of Britain solicits the witches and wizards of Africa toward the building of a fabled technology described as a brain cloud facility to operate on the mystical power of the black world. The play intervolves motifs of a maltreated widow, ill-assorted daughters and personages of the crazy community, and sundry zanies and crazies until its whodunit end. The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe by Abuchi Modilim is indeed an astonishing theatrical debut. – Uzor Maxim Uzor, author of A Play of Ghosts.