AKO Caine Prize

Q&A Caine 2021: Words on the Times – Iryn Tushabe

By Africa in Words Guest on 22 July , 2021 • ( 0 )

AiW note: Last week we ran reviews of each of the five shortlisted stories for the AKO Caine Prize 2021 by five new AiW Guest authors, re-opening our now annual critical conversations and feedback around the writing, the work, and that… Read More ›

Q&A Caine 2021: Words on the Times – Meron Hadero

By Africa in Words Guest on 21 July , 2021 • ( 0 )

Q&A Caine 2021: Words on the Times – Doreen Baingana

By Africa in Words Guest on 20 July , 2021 • ( 0 )

Review Caine 2021: “Repeat after me: My mother has been ushered into the spirit world” – Iryn Tushabe’s ‘A Separation’

By Africa in Words Guest on 16 July , 2021 • ( 0 )

We are absolutely delighted to announce the Shortlist for the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing! 🎉🙌🏿 Congratulations to all five of our shortlisted writers 📚@dbaing01 @remythequill @meronhadero @TroyOnyango @wordsweaver Read the stories here: https://t.co/ZezqOVweS7 pic.twitter.com/4O4XtynJXf — The AKO… Read More ›

Review Caine 2021: Satirizing Injustice – Rémy Ngamije’s ‘The Giver of Nicknames’

By Africa in Words Guest on 14 July , 2021 • ( 0 )

Review Caine 2021: Acts of Humanity and Metaphors of Freedom – Doreen Baingana’s ‘Lucky’

By Africa in Words Guest on 12 July , 2021 • ( 0 )

AiW Note: It’s that time of the year again and AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing shortlist is back! Every day this week, we will be publishing Guest reviews of the… Read More ›

Q&A: ABC-Words on the Times – Fay Gadsden of Gadsden Publishers

By Africa in Words Guest on 15 January , 2021 • ( 1 )

AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

Celebrating ‘The Decade Project’ with Brittle Paper: 10 AiW African Literary Cultural Faves

By Africa in Words on 24 September , 2020 • ( 0 )

Literary blog and archiving platform Brittle Paper turns 10 this year! Happy birthday BP! This month we take up their invitation to join their celebrations in their #DecadeProject with a post marking the last ten years as a significant decade… Read More ›

Caine Prize 2020 – “There’s been a lot of kindness and even rediscovery of a sense of community”: Words on the Times with the shortlisted writers.

By Africa in Words Guest on 27 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

Ahead of the announcement of the AKO Caine Prize’s winner today at 5pm BST, we were able to catch up with Erica Sugo Anyadike, Chikodili Emelumadu, Jowhor Ile, Rémy Ngamije for their Words on the Times – an AiW Q&A set inspired… Read More ›

Caine Prize 2020: ‘Your appreciation of power will grow’: A Review of Erica Sugo Anyadike’s ‘How to Marry an African President’

By wesleymacheso89 on 24 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back in… Read More ›