Caine Prize
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Turning the Tide: A Conversation with Tope Folarin
Tope Folarin discusses his debut novel, A PARTICULAR KIND OF BLACK MAN.
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Part of the Journey
The New Inquiry interviewed Okwiri Oduor, winner of the Caine Prize. She says about past stories: I think they’re the kind of stories that would be published in an anthology by the UN about women’s rights or something. That’s not…
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Caine Prize Controversy Continues
Prominent Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sparked outrage in the African literary community last week with comments she made about the Caine Prize, a prestigious annual award for African writers. Adichie said many things in her fascinating, no-nonsense Boston Review interview…
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This Year’s Caine Prize
Contemporary African fiction is celebrated with the Caine Prize, awarded to the best African short story written in English. This year’s prize went to a Zimbabwean writer named NoViolet Bulawayo whose story, “Hitting Budapest,” which describes hunger with a Márquez-ian…