Tag: Caine Prize
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Images from the Caine Prize Workshop 2015 in Ghana
The Caine Prize workshop gives aspiring writers two weeks to create and finish a story under the guidance of experienced writers and occurs in a different African country every year. This year the workshop was in Elmina, Ghana in April and was facilitated by first Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela and Zukiswa Wanner. Elmina is…
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Caine Prize 2015 deadline is Saturday 31st January
We all know the benefits of the Caine Prize to you as an African writer. The people who have been short-listed and who have won it in the last fifteen years have had it good. Real good. Some of these names are now the biggest names in the African writing game so being one of…
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Caine Prize 2015 judging panel announced in Nigeria
The people who will be judging the Caine Prize for 2015 have been revealed. The announcement was made earlier today at the ongoing at the Ake Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The Caine Prize, for the four visitors from Kyrgyzstan who visited this blog in May, is named after the late Sir Michael…
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Caine Prize Workshop for Zimbabwe in late March
The Caine Prize for African Writing will hold its annual workshop from the 21st of March to the 2nd of April at the Leopard Rock Hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe.The workshop will see thirteen writers from seven African countries take in the workshop’s writing and reading exercises and include four 2013 shortlisted writers. These are Abubakar…
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Caine Prize workshop underlines Uganda’s rise in literature
I just recently saw this lovely post from the people from the Caine Prize where they were hosting some of their 2012 and 2013 shortlisted writers to a workshop in Uganda not too long ago. 2012’s gang included Rotimi Babatunde (winner), Billy Kahora, Stanley Kenani, and Melissa Myambo. From the class of 2013, there was…
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Caine Prize 2014 judges announced
The judges for the Caine Prize 2014 have been announced. The judging panel will be chaired by award-winning author Jackie Kay. She will be joined by the distinguished novelist and playwright Gillian Slovo, Zimbabwean journalist Percy Zvomuya, assistant professor of English at the University of Georgetown Dr Nicole Rizzuto, and the winner of the Caine…
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Last call for Caine Prize 2014
We all know the benefits of winning the Caine Prize for African literature. For one, you get to be feted in all the capitals around where they know that the prize exists (which are a handful – London, Nairobi, Lagos, etc). You get to be spoken of in the same breath as Binyavanga Wainaina and…
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Migritude takes over as Nigerian wins Caine Prize 2013
–>Migritude was first coined by Kenya Poet and human rights activist Shailja Patel. The concept involves people who leave one space to another for whatever reason be it political, economic, or otherwise. The concept has been seen of late quite a bit in the literature of people from this continent with both Chimamanda Adichie (Americah)…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s book for January 2014 release
Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor entered the literary scene with a blaze of glory in 2003 as she won the Caine Prize for African writing. It was for Weight of Whispers, a haunting tale of a Rwandan man who was in the upper class of that society who finds himself in Kenya just as the…