Shortlist – 2022 African Writers Awards, Wakini Prize, and Teens Award

We are pleased to announce the Shortlist for the following awards:

• 2022 African Writers Awards (AWA)
• 4th Wakini Kuria Prize for Children’s Literature
• 1st African Teen Writers Awards

We would like to thank the panel of judges again; Nahida Esmail (Tanzania), Gankhanani Moffat Moyo (Zambia), Sabah Carrim (Mauritius), Nabilah Usman (Nigeria), Corona Cermak (Tanzania), Tamunomieibi Enoch (Nigeria), Patricia Peace Ejang (Uganda), Comfort Nyati, SDB (Zimbabwe), Temani Nkalolang (Botswana), Halieo Motanyane (Lesotho) and Namse Udosen (Nigeria).

Here is the shortlist in alphabetical order:

African Writers Awards

Creative Nonfiction

1. Hills in the Background by George Paul (Tanzania)
2. Let my People Go by Britney Muoghalu (Nigeria)
3. Number 27 by Kendi Karimi (Kenya)
4. This Town by Ezimadu Ugorji (Nigeria)
5. Tsulisime by Deborah Usidamen (Nigeria)

Drama

1. Dusk To Dawn by Gloria Akayi Asoloko (Nigeria)
2. Homecoming by Chetachi Igbokwe (Nigeria)
3. One Jungle, Multiple Shadows by Oluwatosin Tume (Nigeria)
4. The Car Wreck by Jerina Sibanda (Zimbabwe)
5. The Women’s War by Tekena Mark (Nigeria)

Poetry

1. Of what we said by Akal Mohan (Kenya)
2. The slums of Mbayani by Temwani Mgunda (Malawi)
3. The victor’s Psalm by Edmund Elume Nnane (Cameroon)
4. To etch light on a soul by Joshua Effiong (Nigeria)
5. Waiting by Isabel Nowemigisha (Uganda)

 

Wakini Kuria Prize for Children’s Literature

1. Beans Can’t be vegetables by Ogbu Eme (Nigeria)
2. Grandma’s Needlework by Joshua Robertson (Ghana)
3. Siki and the Bicycle by Blessing Amatemeso (Nigeria)
4. The Masterpiece by Ogieriakhi Joseph Osariemen (Nigeria)
5. We can learn many Things by Bardi Osobuanomola Catherine (Nigeria)

 

African Teen Writers Award

Short Stories

1. Beautiful Zawadi by Destine Barasa (Kenya)
2. Mr Bean by Kosiso Chikezie (Nigeria)
3. My Adventure by Ngu Cindy Azah (Cameroon)
4. My Juicy Life by Testimony Odey (Nigeria)
5. The Boy with his Eyes by Kanyamanza Esther (Rwanda)

Poetry

1. At the Age of 10 by Ilakiza Jackson (Tanzania)
2. In Shaa Allah by Fadairo Nabeelah (Nigeria)
3. It gets Lonely by Nifemi Emmanuel (Nigeria)
4. The River’s Ordeals by Fadairo Tesleem (Nigeria)
5. Wings by Priscilla Arthur (Ghana)

The winners will be announced during the African Writers Conference in Douala, Cameroon.

Anthony Onugba,
Chief Judge

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