Tag: Tope Folarin
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Namwali Serpell, Tope Folarin on US’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2019 longlist.
Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift and Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Black Man are on the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2019 longlist announced on July 24, 2019. The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York, USA. It…
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Tope Folarin’s debut novel “A Particular Kind of Black Man” out on August 6.
Tope Folarin’s debut novel A Particular Kind of Black Man will be published by Simon & Shuster on August 6, 2019. Tope Folarin burst onto the African literary scene when he won the Caine Prize for African Writing 2013 for his short story Miracle. Apart from his second Caine Prize shortlist in 2016, he has…
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Tope Folarin makes Caine Prize 2016 shortlist (We need new Caines)
Caine Prize winner 2013 Tope Folarin made the Caine Prize 2016 shortlist that was announced earlier today. The Caine Prize shortlist 2016 was announced today and those who are in the running for this prize are; Abdul Adan (Somalia/Kenya) for The Lifebloom Gift published in The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African…
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Caine Prize Workshop 2016 in Zambia concludes
The annual Caine Prize Workshop ended yesterday at the Chaminuka Lodge near Lusaka, Zambia. The participants included previous winners of the Caine Prize, those shortlisted as well as some who would be considered future stars. The writers at the workshop included 2015 Caine Prize winner, Namwali Serpell (Zambia), 2014 winner Okwiri Oduor (Kenya), 2013 winner…
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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)…