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  • Ali Hilal Ali’s “Mmeza Fupa” out in time for Mabati Cornell Prize 2018 ceremony.

    Ali Hilal Ali’s “Mmeza Fupa” out in time for Mabati Cornell Prize 2018 ceremony.

    Ali Hilal Ali’s Mabati Cornell Prize 2017 award-winning novel Mmeza Fupa is now available for your reading pleasure in time for Mabati Cornell Prize 2018 ceremony. The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature is awarded annually to the best-unpublished manuscripts, or books in Kiswahili of fiction, poetry and memoir, and graphic novels. Winning entries in…

  • Ali Hilal Ali and Dotto Rangimoto win Mabati Cornell Prize 2017

    Ali Hilal Ali and Dotto Rangimoto win Mabati Cornell Prize 2017

    The winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2017 are Tanzanians Ali Hilal Ali and Dotto Rangimoto. The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature is a prize is awarded to the best unpublished manuscripts, or books published within two years of the award year, across the categories of fiction, poetry and…