Haliru Ali Musa won the Alexander Nderitu Prize for World Literature 2024 on Thursday, April 10, 2025.
The Alexander Nderitu Prize for World Literature is a new prize awarded to the best unpublished short story from anywhere in the world. Aimed at launching new literary stars, it is named for Kenyan writer and critic Alexander Nderitu, a recipient of a Share Africa Climate Fiction Award, a Sahitto Literature Jury Award, and a Sevhage-Agema Founders’ Prize for African Criticism.
The submissions for the first edition with the theme “peace” came from Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Eswatini, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Poland, Malawi, The Gambia, Sri Lanka, the USA, Botswana, and Tanzania. The longlist of ten was announced on Saturday, November 30, before the shortlist was made public on January 9.
The winning short story, is The Pregnant Ghost by Lagos-based engineer Haliru Ali Musa was announced on Thursday. The Nigerian receives a Kshs 100,000 cash prize, a one-year-long online marketing campaign, and the option of agent representation by an Asian literary agency. The winning story has been published by The African Griot Review (Kenya) and will also appear in The Asian Journal of Literature (Sri Lanka) later in the year.
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