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Caine winner: Refugees and the idea of home

Ethiopian author Meron Hadero.

In what was a first for Ethiopian authors, Meron Hadero bagged this year’s AKO Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story titled The Street Sweep published in ZYZZYVA.

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