Buhari congratulates winner of 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday congratulated the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, a former lecturer in Bayero University Kano.

The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, said all forms of race-related vices and injustices had no place in modern history given the ignoble experiences of Africans and people of African descent in the past.

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He saluted the bold African voices using the arts, music, literature and sports to stress that the “world is better when we treat one another with dignity and respect”.