Debate: Is the Nobel Prize in Literature culturally rigged against Africans?

Until American poet Bob Dylan was named this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, fans of US-based Kenyan literary great Ngugi wa Thiong’o waited with bated breath.

It has been a long wait. Bookmakers have been placing the Kenyan author, alongside other ‘unlikely’ candidates such as Japanese Haruki Murakami, high on the list of those tipped to win.