Tag: Okwiri Oduor
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Umutoni, Mbue, Shire, Gyasi, Okorafor make OkayAfrica’s 100 Women list.
Nnedi Okorafor, Louise Umutoni, Imbolo Mbue, Warsan Shire, Yaa Gyasi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Okwiri Oduor made OkayAfrica’s 100 Women list. OkayAfrica is a popular website for Africans on the continent and in the diaspora dedicated to African culture, music and politics. The influential website compiled what it calls “OkayAfrica’s 100 Women;” an influential group…
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Morland Writing Scholarship 2016 Shortlist announced
The Miles Morland Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Morland Writing Scholarships. Of the twenty-two names, eleven are from Nigeria, four from South Africa, two each from Somalia and Kenya, and one each from Gambia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. Miles Morland said, “The standard of the shortlist is always high but this year we…
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A brief look back at Writivism Festival 2013 #TBT
It looks like this year’s Writivism Festival will be the best yet. That list of guests you will meet at this festival is looking quite healthy. Anyone who follows Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire on social media will follow his happy announcements of the latest Prince Clause Fund artist whose travel has been funded to Kampala. For…
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Jalada Afrofutures anthology now online
Its taken its time but it is now here. The Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s) anthology was launched at midnight yesterday in Nairobi. It’s the third anthology of the Jalada Writers Collective and this edition has work from voices as diverse as Richard Ali, Jude Dibia, Okwiri Oduor, Ivor Hartmann, Lydia Kasese and Melisa Kiguwa . The…
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The Caine Prize 2014 winner is Kenya’s Okwiri Oduor!
The Caine Prize 2014 winner has just been announced in London and the winner this year is Kenyan writer Okwiri Oduor. She becomes the third Kenyan winner of the prize after Binyanvanga Wainaina in 2002 and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on 2003. The ceremony with several speeches started with a minute of silence for the just…
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Caine Prize 2014 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Caine Prize for African Literature, one of the continent’s hottest short story awards, has just been announced. This is the fifteenth year of the prize that was initially welcomed universally although the universality has been in question in recent years. Some of the more famous previous recipients of the award have…