The Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation is proud to announce the winners of its 2025 Annual Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and Valued Addition to the Foundation. This year’s winners are Pacella Chukwuma-Eke, AbdulRazaq Salihu, Sa’ada Isa Yahaya, and Ibraheem Uthman. These individuals have shown remarkable commitment to the literary arts and have greatly contributed…
The Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation (HCAF) is overjoyed to announce the winners of the 2025 HIASFEST Star Prize: Yahuza Usman from Taraba State and Oyeleye Mahmoodah Temitope from Lagos State. HIASFEST, short for the Hadiza Ibrahim Aliyu Schools Festival, is Africa’s largest gathering of teen artists, featuring categories like poetry, short stories, essays, painting, drama,…
In honour of those whose unwavering efforts continue to influence and elevate the literary and artistic landscape of Nigeria, the Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation is pleased to present the winners of the annual HIASFEST Golden Awards for Art Administrators in Nigeria. The two outstanding art administrators this year, Adamu Idris Manarakis and Blessing Omeiza Ojo,…
The Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation, HCAF, is pleased to announce a novel initiative tagged: the celebration of past winners of the Hadiza Ibrahim Aliyu Schools Festival, HIASFEST; the HIASFEST Hall of Fame. This Hall of Fame is a shrine to the creativity, talent, and doggedness that have come to define HIASFEST in these years. Since…
Minna has won national and international prizes through her writers in Nigeria and abroad. The global literary prizes of Minna came through Ben Okri, a Booker Prize winner and Saddiq Dzukogi with his Derek Walcott Prize for poetry and Julie Suk Poetry Prize won in USA. Saddiq Dzukogi was also a Brunel Poetry Prize and…
