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2018
Winners
A Nation in Labour by Harriet Anena
Songs of Myself by Tanure Ojaide

Shortlist
A Tributary in Servitude by Servio Gbadamosi

Longlist
Home Equals Holes- Tale of An Exile by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
Clinical Blues by Dami Ajayi
Sailing for Ithaca by Abayomi Animashaun
Heaven on Earth- A Harvest of Poems by Taiwo Dominic
Symphony of Becoming by Iquo Eke
One Day, I‘ll Dare to Raise My Middle Finger at the Stark and the Reaper by Hyinus Ekwuazi
2014
Winner
Egbon of Lagos by Akin Bello

Shortlist
The Trials of Afonja by Toyin Abiodun
Odufa by Othuke Ominibohs
2012
Winner
Young Blood by Sifiso Mzobe

Shortlist
Roses and Bullets by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo
The Unseen Leopard by Bridget Pitt

Longlist
The African American by Dike-Ogu Chukwumerije
That Other Country by Hyinus Ekwuazi
Bitter Chocolate by Toyin Adewale Gabriel
The Lazarus Effect by HJ Golakai
The Colour of Power by Marie Heese
The Book of the Dead by Kgebetli Moele
The Beauty I Have Seen by Tanure Ojaide
Only a Canvas by Olushola Olugbesan
Fallout by Sue Rabie
The Thin Line by Arja Salafranca
Pride of the Spider Clan by Odili Ujubuonu
On Black Sisters’ Street by Chika Unigwe
2010
Winners
Coconut by Kopalno Matlewa
Tenants of the House by Wale Okediran

Shortlist
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
2008
Winners
Zara: The Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Attah