''Grit'' is a 2023

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play written by Nigerian playwright

Obari Gomba Obari Gomba is a Nigerian writer and academic. In 2023, he won the Nigeria Prize for Literature for his work ''Grit''. Career Gomba is an associate dean of Humanities and teaches Literary and Creative Writing at the University of Port Harcourt. ...

published in 2023. It won the 2023

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. Nzube Nlebedim in a review for ''

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'' called it magnificent and multifaceted, praising Gomba's didactic prose. Lindsay Barrett in ''Leadership'' described it as "a cautionary tale in which the reader or the onlooker is being alerted to the resilience and determined existence of GRIT as a quality of life. ... a wholesome commentary on Nigeria's contemporary political circumstance."

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