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Parrésia Publishers Wins the $20,000 2026 CANEX Prize for Publishing for Akin Adesokan’s South Side
Twenty thousand dollars and a major publishing prize now belong to Lagos-based Parrésia Publishers, after the house took home the 2026 CANEX Prize for Publishing at CANEX WKND 2026 in Lagos.
The winning title is South Side by Akin Adesokan, the book that brought Parrésia to the top of the prize's shortlist this year.
For a Nigerian independent publisher to land this kind of recognition on home soil says something real about the momentum building around African literary publishing right now. The question is what Parrésia does next.
Originally published by Brittle Paper.