Nigerian playwright and filmmaker, Ayọ̀dẹ́jì Àjàdí, has won the £37,092 Kowitz Scholarship to study Creative Writing: Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.
The scholarship, according to a statement he issued on Monday, will support his postgraduate studies at the university, which is renowned for its creative writing programme and has produced several internationally acclaimed writers, including Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Anne Enright, John Boyne and Nigerian author Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀.
Àjàdí won the scholarship with his play, Sons of Anan, which draws on African mythology and tradition to examine the tensions between inherited beliefs and contemporary realities.
The play explores themes including power, gender and the forces that shape human relationships. It was previously staged at the Muson Centre in Lagos.
Speaking on the award, Àjàdí described the scholarship as an affirmation of the stories he seeks to tell and the perspectives from which he tells
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