Parrésia Publishers, founded by Azafi Omoluabi and Richard Ali, has won the $20,000 CANEX Prize for Publishing for South Side. A Nigerian publisher has brought one of the continent’s biggest publishing prizes back home. The award is in its third edition and was announced Friday evening during Creative Africa Nexus Weekend (CANEX WKND 2026), which is under way at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Iganmu, Lagos.