Cora BookParty

The Nigeria Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2004 and sponsored by Nigerian LNG Limited with the prize money was later raised to $50,000 and now, it is a $100,000 prize - the biggest of its kind in Africa

The CORA-The Nigeria Prize for Literature Book party, a special iteration of the CORA Book Party launched in 1996 -- was initiated after a review of the first five years of the esteemed Prize project. The idea is to create a platform through which the public gets to engage with the works considered the best of the usually, over 200 entries per edition of the NPL

CORA is a group consisting of artistes, art enthusiasts, art promoters and art writers committed to the flowering of all contemporary arts of the Nigerian people.

Cora has organised, every year since 1999, the Lagos Book & Art Festival, (LABAF), critically described as 'the biggest Culture picnic on the African continent.' The 25th edition holds November 13-19 with theme: The Reset: History On A Darkling Plain