Tag: Ben Okri
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Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadil Is the Caine Prize 2017 winner
Sudan’s Bushra al-Fadil Is the Caine Prize 2017 winner for his story The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away. The announcement was made in London, UK on July 3rd, 2017. The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer published in…
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JamesMurua.com stats disabuse Ben Okri assertions
So this is my first blog of the new year after a self-imposed break to chill out and recharge my batteries. While I was drinking and eating excessively in different parts of Nairobi, it seems like the biggest story out there came from the fallout from Ben Okri’s A mental tyranny is keeping black writers…