Nwaubani wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Well done Adaobi.

Congrats,people like you re-kindle the light of hope in young people all over this country that Nigeria can be a better place.

congratulation Ada, Thats the sort of news that gladens my heart after this month of uncertainty.

Something good out of Nigeria, I hope the foreign media pay as much attention to it as they did to the Mutallab incident.

Congrats...

Congrats Sweet heart

Great news! Congrats Adaobi. Wishing you the very best in the next phase.

Thank God for people like you, congratulations

A ray of sun amidst our deadening gloom brings joy to the Nigerian literary circle. Where can we get this book in Ibadan? Congratulations.

Congrats

We have the talents in Nigeria, despite the lack of encouragement by our leaders. Well done Adaobi, more strenght to your elbow

Federal Government Girls College Owerri class of '92! Way to go Adaobi! Great job. Big reunion in Houston Texas weekend of July 4th 2010.

Fantastic news. Proud of you Adaobi. May your spirit of creativity continue to grow.

Congratulations to our own Adaobi for doing us proud. Good job!

omalicha nwa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations are in order, of course. Now, let us go out, buy the novel, and actually read it. Reading is the best compliment we can pay a writer. We need not wait for this novel to be selected for a school examination before we read it. Having read the story when it first came out, this reader will like to urge others to go get it. The novel tells the story of our country in a very humorous manner.

Good feat dear Ada. Its a call to duty, so sharpen your pen for greater is the work ahead. Congratulations!!!

A great well-written story deserves recognition and praise. Congratulation Adaobi!!!!

Congrats first daugther winning best first book. Pls where can we get the storybook. I need to read it o!!!

I just called your English teacher to tell her. She's so happy and proud of you. Wishing you bigger and greater achievements. One good news for my country. See you in New Delhi.

CONGRATS, ANOTHER SWEET ROSE FROM THE EAST.

She is a good story teller and very funny. She deserves the accolade!

Congrats to her. I'm very happy for her. I really enjoyedthe book.

Your Novel is entitled "I Do Not Come To You By Chance', and I think the prize you've just garnered likewise didn't come to you by chance: it is a product of hardwork, determination and nurturing of your God-given talents. Hearty congratulations, my sister, and more ink to your pen. The world is still fresh for you...

Adaobi will you marry me?

Fantastic job! Well done but whats up with your hair

well done!

yes boss...super A season...way to go girl...who's the book published by and where can we find distributors....gats to support this ray of light!!!!!!!!

Congratulations,this is a springboard to more greater things to come.

Something positive to brighten our sad days.Well done.

Congratulations my dear oh!!! Very proud of you, my little sister Nkiru's pal. I remember you when you were just learning to speak ha!ha! :) I got my copy, waiting for you to autograph and maybe one day it will become a collectors item and make me rich o! xx

This Next is fast becoming a nest of award winners. So Oga Dele tell us your secret. How did you manage to 'Stanley Macebuh' such a team. Well Stanley Macebuh is the new verb for spotting talents. I think he comes close to Uncle Sad Sam who I am told have the capacity to tell a talent from the womb!!!

Ride on compatriot. The Prize did not come to you by chance, you worked hard for it. Congratulations!

congrat fine babe. i wiil soon write my own novel about hausa fulani and their cows.

Adaobi is my kinswoman - both at the literal and literary levels, just like Achebe, Chimamanda, Osondu, etc... I need not add though that many of their siblings, similarly-endowed, would die unknown and unsung in a land that slaughters her best to fatten her worst. But it is not yet sunset: the sunken sun hastens to rise again, defying the odds!

Congrats,Ada!!! We're proud of you!

'Nwanne jisie ike. Nke a bu onyinye chukwu nyere Ndigbo, madu apüghi inapü anyi ya' I feard that our art was ageing and fading with the band led by Achebe, Soyinka, et-al; BUT you, Chimamanda, Akpan, Okri, Osondu, et-al keep promising me to live up to the promise. May I join you soon on that glorious podium. Congrats to everybody thatis constructively and productively NIgerian (not to vile characters that should have long been done away with) - YES!

Grats to u lol!!

I'm proud of u Adaobi. These are times when I'm proud of being Ibo and a Nigerian. Keep the flag flying high girl!

Congratulations! You're an inspiration...

A hearty congrats

Huge congrats. 'twas a great read!

fine chic with brains............keep it coming

Congratulations Ada. I congratulate your parents too! They must have gone an extra mile to give you the education that enabled you function at the level you are at now.NIGERIAN LEADERS, PLEASE MAKE OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FUNCTIONAL. THERE ARE OTHER ADAs WAITING IN THE WINGS. NON THE LESS I CONGRATULALE NIGERIA TOO!

congrats!

This is pretty good, another Chimamanda Adichie, Flora Nwapa, etc. This should encourage Nigerian youths and make them realise that the hero lies in them and that they can achieve their positive dreams no matter the hellish Nigerian enviroment the Nigerian selfish politicians have created. Ride on lady and continue to inspire the Nigerian youths.

Congratulations!

Well I'm happy for you. But you do realize that we get prizing for portraying ourselves as 'negative' not for works that reaffirm our pride as a people. It's a divide and rule tactic. By all means I congratulate you.

thumb up!!

Hey Girl, Big congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FGGC OWERRI did you well....cheers

Very happy for you.Good luck.

That's sweet coming from a home girl, good news from this part of the world, after all

Congrats.....hopin to meet u guys soon @ d top!

congratz dear......hopin to meet u guyz soon @ the top

Thumbs up to ada 4 winning...she's jst lyk her predecessor Amanda Adichie....at least d foreign press and d international community can c dat Nigeria has a lot to offer...congrats ada.

Thumbs up to ada 4 winning...she's jst lyk her predecessor Amanda Adichie....at least d foreign press and d international community can c dat Nigeria has a lot to offer...congrats ada.

You are great and am proud of you.Congrats

Bravo!bravo!bravo! More grease to you elbow,thanks for bringing light back into the nigeria literacy circle.

Congrats 2 Adaobi.With dis,Americans will know dat we are of good character.So therefore,clean off our name 4rm ur terrorist list.

Congrats 2 Adaobi.With dis,Americans will know dat we are of good character.So therefore,clean off our name 4rm ur terrorist list.

An achievement that deserves an accolade and really did not come to you by chance but thru hard labour you made us proud. Keep the flag flying and more grease to ur elbow. Congrats

An achievement that deserves an accolade and really did not come to you by chance but thru hard labour you made us proud. Keep the flag flying and more grease to ur elbow. Congrats

congrats nne, idi 2much biko.

Congratulations sister Adaobi. What an inspiration you are. You are the standard!!

Thumbs up Adaobi we are proud of u..

I'll reserve my judgement until I have read the book. I was among the people congratulating Uwam Akpan's book for winning the same award last year until I read it and a few other books on the shortlist and longlist and realise that that book did not deserve to win. So I'll hold my breath until I have read this book.

congrats adaobi but how far with selling the book locally, when will it be launched locally. congrats

Your wining does not come by chance,it came as a result of your hardworking.you have joined the likes of Chimamanda.Keep it up, you are a partaker of the Divine nature of GOD.

Congrat ada & thanks to u for bringing back the statue we've lost in the past. Wish the best of luck in ur coming challenges.

Congrat ada & thanks to u for bringing back the statue we've lost in the past. Wish u the best of luck in ur coming challenges.

congrats dear, wishin u more outstanding success

congratulations Adaobi nothing good comes easy. u really made us proud . keep the good work. god will stand by you in all your endaevours. BRAVO

Congrat adaobi u are 2much.

congrats.good work.

Congrats adaobi.i wish u more success in your career.welldone.

Congrats adaobi.i wish u more success in your career.welldone.

Congrats! Adaobi, you hav prooved NIGERIA as the giant of AFRICA. Keep the flag flying

this is the true spirit of the UItes.thumbs up

Hi baby, this is one of the greatest achievements i always like to here about, i wish you many congrats. Keep it up.

Congrats adaobi.i wish u more success in your career.welldone.

you have done a nice job people like you have reallr shown to the world that nigeria is a great nation with great people.

Congrats to a Queen of our time.Go girl, keep the flag flying high!

You really proved to the whole world the quality of uites .Congratulations and keep the good work up.

I love that keep it up, Keep movening.

I'm proud of U, just keep it up!!!

this is lovely and encouraging.more power to your elbow. this also shows that Nigeria has more talented people.hence,our government should be of assistance for the youths than being selfish.God bless U ada, UI,and NIGERA as a whole.

Another star on UI's crown. I put on an iron laugh when I read it. We need more of this... Let's splash her claps and expect more. Build more of this... A splendid word-welder

I'm just imaging how the youth of this country are trying hard to give this country a good name, while the leaders are destroyer. Congrats ma dear.

Yes, that's the spirit.For every of Uite, we've got that basic foundation which will make us survive and outshine the hurdles of life. Congrats one again, however, it is instructive to add the opinion of an else uite that " it is what a man says that his chi will say"Uncle Chinua Achebe. We are proud of you. This is just the beginning!

Yes, that's the spirit.For every of Uite, we've got that basic foundation which will make us survive and outshine the hurdles of life. Congrats one again, however, it is instructive to add the opinion of an else uite that " it is what a man says that his chi will say"Uncle Chinua Achebe. We are proud of you. This is just the beginning!

Yeah! that's the true spirit of real Naija!!! the Greatest, UItes!! Though the storms made us fall, in it we grew tall. Thumbs up!! U made me proud, optimistically, someday we'll rule the world with our scintillated wits and generations after us will confess that from UI, truly we didn't emerge stardom by chance... how can we get ur script in the campus?.. the paths to a mountain is many, but the view is the same... lov u pal

Yeah! that's the true spirit of real Naija!!! the Greatest, UItes!! Though the storms made us fall, in it we grew tall. Thumbs up!! U made me proud, optimistically, someday we'll rule the world with our scintillated wits and generations after us will confess that from UI, truly we didn't emerge stardom by chance... how can we get ur script in the campus?.. the paths to a mountain is many, but the view is the same... lov u pal

Congrat! That is the spirit of Niger

Congrats,infact i am highly elated for you for making us all proud as a uites.greatest uites...

Nice of you, keep it up the spirit of nigeria will be upon you,your fulture will be bright,pls add more elfort,,thy lord will see you through,amem