CEOAFRICA authoritatively gathered that A Nigerian Writer has made another landmark achievement by winning a Prize in African Writing.

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian writer based in US and was announced as the winner of this year’s prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing, beating other four contenders to the award.

He received the £10,000 ($15,000) prize for his short story Miracle, set in an evangelical Nigerian church in the US state of Texas.

The judges described it as a "delightful and beautifully paced narrative"

Among the remaining shortlisted candidates were three Nigerians namely; Elnathan John for Bayan Layi, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim for The Whispering Trees and Chinelo Okparanta for  'Blind pastor-prophet', while Sierra Leone’s Pede Hollist was the only non-Nigerian shortlisted for his short story ‘Foreign Aid’.

While giving the award to the winner at a dinner held at Bodleian Library at Oxford University in the UK, the chair of judges, Gus Casely-Hayford, described the work of the award recipient as superb.

"Tope Folarin's Miracle is another superb Caine Prize winner - a delightful and beautifully paced narrative, that is exquisitely observed and utterly compelling," he said.

This is the second consecutive year that a Nigerian has won the prize. Last year's winner was Rotimi Babatunde for his story Bombay's Republic - about Nigerian soldiers who fought in the Burma campaign during World War II.