Literary Competition Offers N1.7m Cash Prizes To Teenagers, Youths

The Boy Who Found Gold Literary Competition is acceptable to grant N1.7 cardinal currency prize to Nigerian teenagers and youths aged 15 to 35 with the champion effort submissions.

Named aft Caleb Onyeabor’s caller ‘The Boy Who Found Gold’, the contention centres astir the novel’s themes of ambition, anticipation and the pursuit of one’s dreams.

It tells the communicative of a young boy, who, determined not to extremity up similar his father, and fuelled by a heavy tendency to supply a amended beingness for his ailing mother, embarks connected a quest to find gold.

To embark connected the perilous travel to the City of Gold, helium has lone the words of contented from an aged household friend, a symbolic publication of gold, and six different boys arsenic companions. Along the way, the boys brushwood trials, losses, and life-shaping lessons that merge past contented with modern truth.

The expansive prize victor takes N1 cardinal cash, portion the archetypal and 2nd runners-up person N500,000 and N200,000 currency prizes, respectively.

To suffice for the competition, contestants indispensable get a transcript of ‘The Boy Who Found Gold’ from spouse bookshops and NGOs crossed the state listed connected the contention website, and pen an effort connected ‘personal and generational lessons’ learnt from the story.

The nationalist organiser of ‘The Story of the Boy Who Found Gold—Lessons for Me and My Generation’ and laminitis of Williams Worldwide, Billy Nwoye, said the contention was calved from the tendency to usage storytelling arsenic a instrumentality for inspiration.

“Onyeabor’s caller is not conscionable an African communicative of ambition, resilience and the pursuit of dreams, but besides a telephone to enactment for young radical to find their ain ‘gold’ successful life. This is wherefore the contention is organised astir the book,” helium said.

Abiodun Adigun of Hanifar Dynamic Limited, different nationalist organiser for the competition, couldn’t incorporate the forethought that the competition’s victor volition beryllium a contestant that is genuinely successful request of the currency prize.

“Beyond promoting a beardown speechmaking civilization and captious reasoning among young people, the contention is apt to unearth a victor from a humble inheritance – youths from underprivileged oregon middle-class families, arsenic good arsenic agleam young minds successful underserved communities,” helium added.

‘The Boy Who Found Gold’ volition beryllium launched connected September 30, and submissions for the contention volition beryllium automatically opened until December 31, 2025.
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