LAGOS, Nigeria: Headlines portray the Sahara as a barren desert that claims the lives of many African migrants but Nigerian poet Tade Ipadeola had a different story to tell—and it was worth $100,000.

Ipadeola’s “The Sahara Testa–ments” won the most lucrative writing award in Africa, the Nigeria Prize for Literature, for his account of the history and culture of the world’s largest desert.

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