How to Marry an African President by Erica Sugo Anyadike
Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.
Archive: prizes
The Perfect Handspring by Muthoni wa Gichuru
Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category.
‘Too much talking. We’ve got work to do’
An interview with Ellah P Wakatama OBE, Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019: Shortlist
The fifteen-strong shortlist for the tenth anniversary of the prize features writers from nine countries and five continents.
‘Every poem is a different species’: Raymond Antrobus talks to Wasafiri
The 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize winner spoke to Wasafiri about literary prize cultures, stage vs page poetry, and his vision for the ‘hearing world’.
Q&A with Lesley Nneka Arimah: the 20th winner of the Caine Prize
An interview with Lesley Nneka Arimah, the 2019 Caine Prize winner for her short story ‘Skinned’. Arimah talks about the appeal of the short story, ‘centring the African gaze’, and the role of the writer today.