Nigerian Author Wins Prestigious Caine Prize

Rotimi Babatunde has won the 2012 Caine prize for African writing with his book titled Bombay Republic which tells a story of a Nigerian soldier fighting in Burma during the second world war.

Rotimi Babatunde

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