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Prizes Given To African Writers Not To Write In African Language, Says Kenyan Writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o Ngugi, who now writes primarily in Gikuyu, said that literary awards are incentives given to Africans to abandon their local languages. by SaharaReporters, New York Jun 27, 2021 Kenya’s foremost writer and one of Africa’s greatest, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, has called on African countries to adopt Swahili as their official language. He made the call during a conversation with Professor Okey Ndibe. The conversation was part of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) Conversation with Veteran Writers Series organised by Wale Okediran. ....
Famed eighty-eight year old South African Khoi-San N/uu storyteller and writer, Katrina Esau, has launched Tortoise and Ostrich. It is the first book published in one of the first languages in the world. ....
okayafrica Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images Author David Diop s debut novel At Night All Blood Is Black makes thesInternational Booker Prize Shortlist. Author David Diop Makes International Booker Prize Shortlist The International Booker Prize has selected French-Senegalese author David Diop s debut novel At Night All Blood Is Black for its highly coveted shortlist. David Diop has been named one of six select authors to have made it onto the 2021 International Booker Prize shortlist. Diop s debut novel At Night All Blood is Black is the only African novel that features on the 2021list. The international award recognises the best fiction novels that have been translated from a foreign language to English. ....
By Prisca Sam-Duru Africa’s literary colossus, Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, made history on Tuesday, when he was longlisted among twelve other authors for the 2021 International Booker Prize, as both author and translator of the same book, ‘The Perfect Nine’, as well as the first nominee writing in an indigenous African Language. With his nomination, Prof Wa Thiong’o, an 83-year-old renowned author of “Weep Not Child”, becomes the first nominee writing in an indigenous African language. A perennial Nobel Prize favourite, the Africa’s literary giant is among 13 authors nominated for the award for best translated fiction, a £50,000 prize split evenly between author and translator. ....