Emmanuel Faith, the author of Chronicles of an Intern, has emerged winner of the annual Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers Albert Jungers Poetry Prize (AJPP) 2019 for his 20-line rhyming poem Like Babies.
Like Babies (finalist in March) beat Feast of Stars by Ogedengbe Tolulope Impact (February finalist) and Ponder the Yonder Wonders by Oladimeji Adam Adedayo (August finalist) to the prize which is awarded to the best poem from the combined top 10 entries of the monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) from February to September 2019.
Emmanuel was announced the winner of the prize at the 5th edition of the Words Rhymes & Rhythm Literary Festival, Feast of Words, which held on 7th December 2019, at Ado Awaye Suspended Lake, Ado Awaye, Oyo State. He was awarded N20,000 cash prize and, alongside other winners of the BPPC, a certificate of award.
WINNER’S BIOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Faith is a writer, economist, human capacity builder and the initiator of A Word A Day – a scheme founded to improve the quotidian diction of Nigerian youths. He studied Economics at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and is currently an NYSC intern at General Electric as well as a core part of volunteer projects including The Lagos Series, The Taxville. A former intern at Meristem Securities as well as a former campus ambassador for Unilever, Faith has also interned with Taxaide Professional Services Limited where he explored the rudiments of taxes.
Faith is an avid reader and former guest writer at Pulse.ng. He was featured in The Dailies for reading 102 books in a single calendar year and he presently coordinates Bookathon, an initiative that encourages members to read at least five books in a month and provide reviews. He aspires to be a TEDx speaker and believes the world was made with words and could be made better with our words.
