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My Scholarship entry - Memories Will never Lie

Nigeria | Sunday, October 26, 2014 | 5 photos

Emmanuel Ugokwe is a Nigerian writer, trained film producer, translator, essayist and a journalist. HE He has won over 34 awards in writing including Association of Nigeria Authors/Ken Nnamani Prize for Igbo Literature. In 2009, Princess Hastrup Prize for The Best Researched Work, Preemptive International Essay Competition and was Star 16 in Nigeria 50 Stars @ 50 Award for Nigeria 50 years Golden Jubilee in 2010. In 2010 he was also a Nominee for Young Writers Achievers Award for Nigeria 50 Years Golden Jubilee by Commonwealth Club London. And in 2011 Ebedi International Writers Resident, in Iseyin Oyo state. In 2013 he won INDIAAFRICA international essay contest. He also won the 2011 Zahara Foundation essay writing contests and currently a student of Sikim Manipal University Ghana.
I should be chosen because I have worked in media houses, trained in photography and currently a student of Journalism and Mass Communication. The many years of experience in this field afford me greater opportunity to work in this assignment and to perform perfectly well.