African Writers Awards

(Here is a dark-skinned robot called Bol, Herding cows by the banks of the Nile.)  Maker: They are scaring away the cows, Deng. They made them dark-skinned So they can resemble us, But how they [...]

It must have been a pleasantly cool month when vegetables are at their best selves. Inside a walled tropical garden, vegetables of different sorts grew. Red Tomatoes and Salad Greens, Orange [...]

Pink is for girls, and blue is for boys; that was all Amina needed to know. Obviously, far better than memorizing a bunch of formulas and principles. The crocheting process wasn’t so much of a [...]

Once upon a time, in the city of Port Harcourt lived an eleven-year-old boy named Siki. Siki was the first and only son of his widowed mother. Siki’s father died when Siki was nine years old. He [...]

It wasn’t 1967, there were no bombs coming down like rainfall nor were there bullets flying in the air. Ojukwu’s name wasn’t in everyone’s mouth and too many of us weren’t paying attention to the [...]

Fires of discontent glow all over Life is a ceaseless hustle It is here Where six families scramble for a single dingy bathroom And a sole putrid pit latrine It is here Where despondent drunks [...]

It gets lonely sometimes- sitting alone in the cafeteria, watching people eat with their friends because No one wants to sit with the fat girl. Every day when I walk into the classroom, I feel [...]

Mother once said that life was like a drink, pulpy orange juice, and we were supposed to sip it slowly, else we might choke. I didn’t understand why she was telling my sisters and me this, but [...]

The month of November heralded the arrival of guests into the beautiful city of Douala in Cameroon for the 5th African Writers Conference. This year’s conference was themed: Writing Africa [...]

On behalf of the panel of judges, I present the winners of the African Writers Awards (AWA), the Wakini Kuria Prize for Children’s Literature, and the African Teen Writers Awards. The awards were [...]