Tag: Makena Onjerika
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Makena Onjerika’s “Digital Bedbugs” reboots Mbogi Ya Mawriters.
Makena Onjerika’s edited anthology Digital Bedbugs was featured at the first physical Mbogi Ya Mawriters event since the onset of Coronavirus at Alliance Francaise Nairobi on October 29, 2020. Mbogi Ya Mawriters is a series featuring Kenyan writers hosted at the Alliance Française Nairobi that kicked off in 2019. Mbogi is a Kiswahili word meaning…
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Makena Onjerika-edited anthology “Digital Bedbugs” available for your reading pleasure.
Digital Bedbugs, a new anthology edited by Caine Prize winner Makena Onjerika, has been available for readers since January 15, 2020. Makena Onjerika burst onto the African literary scene when she won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2018 for her story Fanta Blackcurrant. Since then, we have heard her writing in anthologies like…
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Morland Writing Scholarships 2018 shortlist announced.
The Morland Writing Scholarships 2018 shortlist has been announced today with twenty writers from ten African countries in the running. The Morland Writing Scholarship is an annual award given to African writers to enable them to work on a manuscript over a year without worrying about an income. Writers awarded a fiction scholarship will each…
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Makena Onjerika is Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 winner.
Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika is the Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 winner for her short story Fanta Blackcurrant, published in Wasafiri (2017). The ceremony was held for the second time in Senate House, in partnership with SOAS and the Centre for African Studies in the UK. The Caine Prize, awarded annually for African creative writing,…
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Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 shortlist announced.
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 shortlist has been announced. The writers in the running for one of the continent’s most coveted prizes are Nonyelum Ekwempu, Stacy Hardy, Olufunke Ogundimu, Makena Onjerika, and Wole Talabi. The shortlist for the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced, showcasing a diversity of themes and…