The winners of the Sawiris Cultural Awards 2017 were announced at a ceremony at the Main Hall of Egypt’s Cairo Opera House on January 8,…
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Category: Awards
Ali Hilal Ali and Dotto Rangimoto win Mabati Cornell Prize 2017
The winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2017 are Tanzanians Ali Hilal Ali and Dotto Rangimoto. The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize…
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JamesMurua.com Outstanding African literary Awards 2017
We present to you the outstanding literary happenings for 2017. What a year 2017 was. We had many things happen over the year positive and…
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Juliane Okot Bitek wins Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2017
Juliane Okot Bitek is the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund’s Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2017. The African Poetry Book fund, established…
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Thando Mgqolozana written film Inxeba gets Oscar nomination
Inxeba (The Wound), co-written by Thando Mgqolozana, is one of the nine films shortlisted for the 90th Academy Awards Foreign Language Film category. It’s been…
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Chimamanda Adichie wins Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award 2018
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set to be the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award 2018 winner. Poets & Writers, founded in 1970, is one…
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Wole Soyinka to receive Europe Theatre Prize 2017
Africa’s first Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is the recipient of The Europe Theatre Prize 2017. The Europe Theatre Prize is an award of the European…
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Koleka Putuma wins at Mbokodo Awards 2017
Koleka Putuma was recognised as a Rising Star at the South African Mbokodo Awards 2017. On the 9th of August 1956, over 20 000 women…
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Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 judges announced
The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced the five judges for the 2018 edition of the prize. The Caine Prize for African Writing is…
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Huzama Habayeb wins Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2017
Poet, short-story writer, and novelist Huzama Habayeb is the winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2017 for her novel Velvet. Naguib Mahfouz was…
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Adichie, Ilube, Mbue, Noah make “100 Most Influential Africans of 2017” list
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tony Ilube, Imbolo Mbue, and Trevor Noah made the list of “100 Most Influential Africans of 2017” curated by The New African…
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Ayobami Adebayo is Future Awards Africa Prize 2017 winner
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ is the Future Awards Africa Prize for Art & Culture 2017 winner. The award was given at a ceremony at the Federal Palace…
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Anasoma Writing Contest winners feted in Nairobi, Kenya
The winners of the Anasoma Writing Contest were given their prizes at a ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya on December 5, 2017. Anasoma (“she/he reads” in…
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Kimani, Adebayo, Okorafor, Noah make New York Times Notable Books of 2017
Peter Kimani, Ayobami Adebayo, Nnedi Okorafor, and Trevor Noah have made the New York Times Notable Books of 2017. The New York Times, a US…
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9mobile Prize for Literature 2018 longlist announced
The nine books on the longlist for the 9mobile Prize for Literature 2018, formerly the Etisalat Prize, have been announced. The 9mobile Prize for Literature…
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