Olukorede S. Yishau, the Nigeria Prize for Literature nominee, award-winning journalist, novelist, and short-story writer, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. His first novel, In the Name of Our Father, has been a subject of theses by students in Nigerian universities. It was described by two-time Booker finalist Chigozie Obioma as a 'work of deceptive simplicity'. His collection of short stories Vaults of Secrets has received rave advance reviews.
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The Nation newspaper has many good names written on it for bylines. Olukorede Yishau, an associate editor whose job at the newspaper is to plough through tons of news stories everyday for highest standards of journalism by The Nation reporters has an outstanding name.
A back page columnist for its Niger-Delta edition, whose finely written essays from trivial and somewhat flippant to serious and often sobering investigations attract the attention of bigwigs—with reactions that are sometimes emotional or an attempt at a cover-up—Yishau parades several top-level industry awards.
Amazingly, Yishau, who won one of the most coveted industry awards in 2016
as Columnist of the Year, didn’t start his engaging prose from Tell
Magazine or The Source, where he once worked and has his name referenced
often as a thoroughbred professional journalist, the bookish journalist
started with inspiration he garnered from reading Songs of Solomon, a book
of the Bible known for its romantic subject matter.
In his early days, after reading the Bible Yishau will go anywhere with
his pen and paper in his pocket. Instant miracle of ideas flowed
ceaselessly in his head and many poems and fiction works were born through
the immersion of his mind into the Songs of Solomon.
Yishau was:
NMMA Columnist of the Year (2015)
NMMA Entertainment Reporter of the Year (2015)
NMMA Capital Market Reporter of the Year (2013)
NMMA Aviation Industry Reporter of the Year (2003)
Finalist Union Bank Banking and Finance Reporter of the Year (2003)
Finalist Olu Aboderin Entertainment Reporter of the Year (2001)
Finalist Print Journalist of the Year (2005) Finalist, Political Reporter
of the Year (2006).
The desire to become a novelist suddenly seizes Justus Omoeko. He is soon inspired by the story of a popular prophet in town and decides to write a thriller out of the dark patch that is the life of this renowned man of God...
The stories in Vaults of Secrets flirt with the limits of freedom and bondage.The complex, beautifully drawn characters unveil the many grotesques of human life and shed light on their dark recesses exposing their weaknesses.
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