London — The shortlist for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced, featuring five stories that “speak eloquently to the human condition” through a diverse array of themes and genres.
Each of these shortlisted stories speak eloquently to the human condition, and to what it is to be an African, or person of African descent, at the start of the second decade of the21st century.
“Together, this year’s shortlisted stories signal that African literature is in robust health, and, as demonstrated by the titles alone, never predictable.”
The shortlisted writers for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize are:
ERICA SUGO ANYADIKE (TANZANIA) for ‘How to Marry An African President’ published in _adda: Commonwealth Stories _(2019)
CHIKODILI EMELUMADU (NIGERIA UK) for ‘What to do when your child brings home a Mami Wata’ published in _The Shadow Booth:Vol.2_ (2018)
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JOWHOR ILE (NIGERIA) for ‘Fisherman's Stew’, published in _The Sewanee Review_ (2019)
RÉMY NGAMIJE (RWANDA NAMIBIA) for ‘The Neighbourhood Watch’, published in _The Johannesburg Review of Books_ (2019)
IRENOSEN OKOJIE (NIGERIA UK) for ‘Grace Jones’ from "Nudibranch", published by _Hachette_ (2019)
Joining Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp on the 2020 judging panel are Audrey Brown, South African broadcast journalist; Gabriel Gbadamosi, Irish-Nigerian poet and playwright; Ebissé Wakjira-Rouw, Ethiopian-born nonfiction editor and policy adviser at the Dutch Council for Culture in the Netherlands, and James Murua, Kenyan based journalist, blogger, podcaster and editor.
