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BINA NENGI-ILAGHA, is a retired veteran Broadcaster. She won the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA Prose Prize in 2001 with her maiden novel, Condolences. The Novel was also placed first of the final short list of three, at the maiden Nigeria Prize for Literature Awards in 2004. Her second work, a collection of 11 short stories titled, Crossroads, earned an honourable mention, placing third at the 2002, ANA Prose Prize. Her second novel titled, A Path of Stone, made the 11 long list of the maiden Chinua Achebe Prose Prize. She has also published a third novel titled, Thunder Among The Clouds, making the Pere Alazibo story, a trilogy. Bina also writes children's prose and mentors children writers. 

She served as pioneer Secretary; Vice Chairman; and Chairman, of the Bayelsa State Chapter of ANA. She is a Fellow of the Association of Nigerian Authors.

Praise for Condolences

 Bina Nengi-Ilagha’s subtle handling of the contrast between appearance and reality, in her full understanding and identification with her rural setting, in the depth of her psychological probing, in the detachment of her narrative style, in her unmasking of the way in which social custom disguises the fierce ambitions and secret longings of individuals, in the subordination of episode and incident of the controlling vision of the narrator, we have the art of the master storyteller.  

-  Citation of the Judges on Condolences at the maiden edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, 2004

“Bina Nengi-Ilagha’s strength in this novel lies in her ability to explore the atmosphere of mourning to unravel the complex patterns of human behaviour. The story is very well focalised, and there is a skilful use of narrative devices. The author’s language is lucid, and there is an admirable vividness in the way she describes events and characters.”

Citation by the panel of Judges for Condolences, 

Winner of the 2001 ANA Prose Prize

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