AiW Guest: Tanaka Chidora. AiW note: Today’s post is the final in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (in full, with more coverage, here). Tanaka Chidora reviews the winning story by Nadia Davids, ‘Bridling’, published in The Georgia Review,… Read More ›
Caine Prize for African Writing
Review: Home as Relationship – Tryphena L. Yeboah’s ‘The Dishwashing Women’ (on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024)
AiW Guest: Beatrice Grace Munala. AiW note: Today’s post continues our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (in full with more here), as Beatrice Munala reviews Ghanaian writer Tryphena Yeboah’s shortlisted story, ‘The Dishwashing Women’, published in Narrative Magazine, in… Read More ›
Review: The Alienated Migrant – Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s ‘Adjustment of Status’ (on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024)
AiW Guest: Ekari Phiri. AiW note: Ekari’s piece continues our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (the complete Caine Prize series is here), today, of Nigerian writer Samuel Kọ́láwọlé‘s shortlisted story, ‘Adjustment of Status’, published in New England Review, in… Read More ›
Review: Family Dynamics in Uche Okonkwo’s ‘Animals’ (on the Caine Prize shortlist 2024)
AiW Guest: Difrodah Mnyika. AiW note: this is the second in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (full series here); today, our review is of Nigerian writer Uche Oknonkwo’s shortlisted story, ‘Animals’, published in ZYZZYVA, in 2024. NB: Our… Read More ›
Review: Of Motherhood and Negotiation – ‘Breastmilk’ by ‘Pemi Aguda (on the Caine Prize shortlist 2024)
AiW Guest: Spemba Elias Spemba. AiW note: this is the first in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series, of Nigerian writer ‘Pemi Aguda’s shortlisted story, ‘Breastmilk’, published in One Story, in 2021. NB: Our reviews may contain spoilers! Read… Read More ›
Q&As: Nadia Davids’ ‘Bridling’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Nadia Davids. AiW note – on the 2024 edition of our, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series… Today is the last in our ‘Words On / Caine Prize’ 2024 Shortlist Q&As, and the final of our “twinned” Writer-Publisher… Read More ›
Q&As: Publishing Nadia Davids’ ‘Bridling’ in The Georgia Review – the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Gerald Maa, editor and director of The Georgia Review. Today, our final Writer-Publisher ‘Words on / Caine Prize’ Q&As, part of our now annual, AiW Caine Prize series, is with publisher Gerald Maa of The Georgia Review (GR), the… Read More ›
Q&As: Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s ‘Adjustment of Status’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Samuel Kọ́láwọlé. AiW note – on our 2024, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series: Continuing our ‘Words On / Caine Prize’ 2024 Shortlist series, in this Q&A, we hear from writer, Samuel Kọ́láwọlé (Nigeria), whose shortlisted story,… Read More ›
Q&As: Publishing Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s ‘Adjustment of Status’ in New England Review – the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Carolyn Kuebler, editor of New England Review. AiW note: Today, part of our now annual AiW Caine Prize series, is the first of our Writer-Publisher 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Q&A duos, plugging in to our interests in prizes, publication… Read More ›
Q&As: Uche Okonkwo’s ‘Animals’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Uche Okonkwo. We’re continuing with a new series of ‘Words On’ Caine Prize Q&As, today featuring the first of our “twinned” sets with two writers whose stories were shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize, here with Uche… Read More ›
Q&As: ‘Pemi Aguda’s ‘Breastmilk’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: ‘Pemi Aguda. AiW note: We’re continuing with a new series of ‘Words On’ Caine Prize Q&As, today featuring the first of our “twinned” sets with two writers whose stories were shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize, here… Read More ›
Q&As: Chika Unigwe, Chair of the Judging Panel – the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Chika Unigwe. AiW note – on the 2024 edition of our, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series… This week, our series of ‘Words on Q&As’ kick off a collaborative series based around the shortlist for the 2024… Read More ›
Q&As: Eli Goldman (Editor) – Publishing the Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: This is the penultimate day in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week, a range of interviews around the shortlist for UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. In the lead up to… Read More ›
Review Caine 2021: Leaps of Faith – Troy Onyango’s ‘This Little Light of Mine’
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 are publishing Guest reviews of the five… Read More ›
Review Caine 2021: [Mis]understanding the Game – Meron Hadero’s ‘The Street Sweep’
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 are publishing Guest reviews of the five… Read More ›
Review Caine 2021: Acts of Humanity and Metaphors of Freedom – Doreen Baingana’s ‘Lucky’
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 ›
In other Words… AiW news and July’s wrap
As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, we catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Please be in touch with… 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.
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: Review of Jowhor Ile’s “Fisherman’s Stew”
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 ›
Caine Prize 2020 & Africa Writes. Q&A: “[I]nvite our audiences to meditate on joy and re-center our humanity”: Ifeanyi Awachie’s Words on the Times
AiW note: In the first of Africa Writes’ online events this year, Ifeanyi Awachie, London-based Igbo curator and writer, will be in conversation with the 2020 AKO Caine Prize shortlisted writers this evening, Monday 20th July at 19.00 BST (20.00… Read More ›