Speaking on challenges of emerging authors in Nigeria, he singled financial constraints and infrastructural decline as factors diminishing the litOloerary drive in the country.

[8] In an interview with The Sun, Cole recalled that he began writing while in elementary school just to feel among his age-groups.

The book was long-listed for the 2014 Nigeria Prize for Literature, and won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) award.

The book was on the impact of religious and ethnic violence on the living conditions of persons in Northern Nigeria.

[12] Aside the awards won below, Cole has been shortlisted for Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa and BBC World Playwriting Competition.