After critical readings and reviews, we are delighted to unveil an extensive shortlist for the E.E. Sule/SEVHAGE Prize for African Literary Criticism component of the SEVHAGE Literary Prizes 2023. In alphabetical order by first names, the works and their authors are as follows:

1. Women and the Boko Haram Terrorists: Reading Trauma in Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Abidemi Emman Oguntunji
2. Egocentrism In Contemporary Literature: A Review of Obari Gomba’s The Lilt Of The Rebel by Adelana Esther
3. The Cartography of Human Behavior: Vernacular Theatre in Eastern Africa by Alex Nderitu
4. A Principle for the New Nigerian Poetry by Arasi Kamolideen Oluwapelumi
5. Negotiating Spaces in Western Metropolitan Societies: Focus on Contemporary Nigerian Diasporic Novels by Bizuum Godwill Yadok
6. Of History and Imaginative Re-Creations in Helon Habila’s Waiting for An Angel by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
7. Gender as Performance, and Androgynous Space Creation in African Literature: Reading Dibia’s Walking with Shadows and Duiker’s The Quiet Violence by Eugene Shichet Yakubu
8. “Chinua Achebe, A Feminist Extraordinaire?: Misogyny, Masculinity, And Victimhood in Things Fall Apart“ by Kasimma
9. “Till Death Do Us Part?” Unravelling Familial Ties in The Representations of Wives in Selected Women Authored Zambian Short Stories by Shilika Chisoko

Congratulations to everyone on the list and best wishes in all your endeavours.

Dr Ehighocho Ruth James
SEVHAGE Prizes 2023 Publicity Lead