The launch featured selected contributions and each contributor received a “Recognition of Contribution” certificate.
When the TRC first decided to award prizes to the National Vision contributors, the TRC anticipated that it would simply be a question of coming up with a single overall winner and two runner-up. But the excellence of so many contributions in many different art forms demanded that there be winners and runners-up in a variety of categories.
Winners and runners-up in six categories received prizes: poetry, prose, paintings, “other art”, sculptures and installations, and recorded submissions. Each winner received 200,000 Leones and each runner-up received 80,000 Leones. Where there were joint contributions put forward by two or more contributors, the prize money was shared amongst them.
The prize-winners were as follows:
POETRY
Winner: “I Saw”, Mohamed Albert Sekoya
First Runner Up: “Salone geh for play”, Abhubakarr Koroma
Second Runner Up: “Salone Pikin”, Emmanuel Bryma Momoh
PROSE
Winner: “My National Vision for Sierra Leone”, by Chinisia E. Caesar
First Runner Up: “My vision, hope and aspiration for Sierra Leone”, by Augustine Lavai & Tiva Bundu
Second Runner Up: “Youth movement for peace”, by Wurie Mamadu Tamba Barrie
PAINTING
Winner: The Visionary Map of Sierra Leone, by Wilfred Thomas
First Runner Up: “The House”, Borboh J. Kamara
Second Runner Up: “Let’s come together in Love”, Nine RUF prisoners at Pademba Road Central Prison
OTHER ART
Winner: The Charcoal Map of Sierra Leone, by Saio M. Koroma
First Runner Up: Map of Mother Africa and Sierra Leone, by Abdul Aziz Asher
Second Runner Up: “The amputee reconciles with the rebel”, Kabie Farema
SCULPTURE & INSTALLATIONS
Winner: “In the Future?” wooden carving by Olu Francis Davies from Kenema
First Runner Up: “Future of Freetown”, by Sidikie Bangura
RECORDED SUBMISSIONS
Winner: “Reconciliation? The Way Out”, by Ernest Foday Mannah & Julius Mannah
First Runner Up: Theatre
