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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY BEN SIMON Nigerian poet Tade Ipadeola looks on during the award ceremony in Lagos on March 6, 2014. Headlines portray the Sahara as a barren desert that many Africans are desperate to escape but Nigerian poet Tade Ipadeola had a different story to tell -- and it was worth $100,000. Ipadeola's "The Sahara Testaments" 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. AFP PHOTO/STRINGER (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)