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The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing 2020
Now in its 21st year, the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is African’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The collection brings together the five stories on the 2020 shortlist. The authors shortlisted for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize are: - Jowhor Ile (Nigeria) for Fisherman’s Stew - Rémy Ngamije (Rwanda/Namibia) for The Neighbourhood Watch - Irenosen Okojie (Nigeria) for Grace Jones - Erica Sugo Anyadike (Tanzania) for How to Marry an African President - Chikodili Emeladu (Nigeria) for What to do when your child brings home a Mami Wata The 2020 judging panel comprises: - Kenneth Olumuyiwa Th...
Seventh Street Alchemy
The 2004 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Brian Chikwava's "Seventh Street Alchemy" is featured alongside shortlisted stories from 2004, compositions from the Caine Prize's March 2005 Workshop for African Writers, and Charles Mungoshi's previously unpublished "Letter from a Friend" in this inspired collection of work from some of Africa's most promising young and new writers.
A Particular Kind of Black Man
**One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer** An NPR Best Book of 2019 An “electrifying” (Publishers Weekly) debut novel from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uneasy assimilation to American life. Living in small-town Utah has always been an uncomfortable fit for Tunde Akinola’s family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can’t escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won’t come off. As he struggles to fit in, he finds little solace from his parents who are grappling with their own issues. Tunde’s father, ever...
Feast, Famine and Potluck
A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.
Discovering Home
This third edition of stories from the Caine Prize for African Writing includes works by writers from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa, most of whom have never before been published.
Jungfrau
The Caine prize is Africa's leading literary prize and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English. Each year, the winning story (Jungfrau by Mary Watson from South Africa is the 2007 winner) and the short listed entries are collected and published in one volume. This is a diverse and stimulating collection from some of Africa's best writers.
Ten Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing
Celebrates 10 years of the leading literary prize for African fiction and includes work from authors for whom the prestigious prize has been a springboard for success. Helon Habila and Segun Afolabi are amongst the many notable writers featured. The anthology underlines the Caine Prize as the African Booker by including a story from each of the African Booker Prize winners: Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Ben Okri.
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013
Now in its fourteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize for short stories.
Jambula Tree
The Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, is for a short story published in English by a writer of African origin. Each year, the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and published in one volume. The eighth winner is Monica Arac de Nyeko from Uganda for Jambula Tree. Chair of Judges Jamal Mahjoub from Sudan describes her story as a witty and touching portrait of a community which is affected forever by a love which blossoms between two adolescents.''
