![Grief: Its Invisible Gerund [CNF] | Abasi-maenyin Esebre](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sevhage-prizes-2024i-win.png?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Grief: Its Invisible Gerund [CNF] | Abasi-maenyin Esebre")
African & Black Creatives for Development, and SELDI, SEVHAGE presents the winner of the SEVHAGE/Maria Ajima Prize for Creative Non-Fiction 2023. Abasi-maenyin Esebre’s piece is the winning entry and a unanimous choice of the judges for its beauty. – SVA 1.It’s neat to think that death belongs to the old, to hope that the future … Continue reading
Dinner was served just as twilight descended on the sunny Accra skyline. We were sitting outside a restaurant somewhere in the Labone area of Accra, Ghana with its beautiful ambience next to the DJ who pelted out loud melodic African music from a loudspeaker. As we enjoyed the fresh Jasmine-scented evening breeze, our host, Professor … Continue reading
![THE PROTEST LAMB [CNF] | Blessing Omeiza Ojo](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sevhage-prizes-2024i-win-3.png?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "THE PROTEST LAMB [CNF] | Blessing Omeiza Ojo")
In partnership with Alinea Initiative, Goethe Institut Nigeria, African & Black Creatives for Development, and SELDI, SEVHAGE presents the winners of the Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Non-Fiction 2024. Blessing Omeiza Ojo’s piece is the joint-winning entry. “And like sheep to the slaughter, we marched—but not without song.”— Unattributed Lamb as a MetaphorI became … Continue reading
![Compass Rose [CNF] | Abasi-maenyin Esebre](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sevhage-prizes-2024i-win-2.png?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Compass Rose [CNF] | Abasi-maenyin Esebre")
In partnership with Alinea Initiative, Goethe Institut Nigeria, African & Black Creatives for Development, and SELDI, SEVHAGE presents the winners of the Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Non-Fiction 2024. Abasi-maenyin Esebre’s piece is the joint-winning entry. I I failed English in WAEC. The second time I wrote the exam, I got an E. And … Continue reading
![We Bought an Album in June [CNF] | Nana Sule](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sevhage-prizes-2024i-win-1.png?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "We Bought an Album in June [CNF] | Nana Sule")
In partnership with Alinea Initiative, Goethe Institut Nigeria, African & Black Creatives for Development, and SELDI, SEVHAGE presents the winners of the Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Non-Fiction 2024. Nana Sule’s piece is the joint-winning entry. Continue reading
It has gone so fast. The speed with which the downtrodden victims of tragic events are mourned these days frightens me. People in government hardly give a damn. With zero empathy they deftly move on. Life must go on. The dead are truly left to bury the dead.My heart bled when the nation woke up … Continue reading
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