President Muhammadu Buhari Congratulates winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah

President Muhammadu Buhari 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.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a British citizen who was born in Tanzania. From 1980 to 1983, Gurnah lectured at Bayero University Kano in Nigeria.